Sir Run Run Shaw

[Stacey]

Has the coolest name on this forum.

[Stacey]

Run Run would be a nice name for this guy

http://jollydwarf.com/Assets/Images/cl08.jpg

[red5angel]

Shaw bros can't be beat for kungfu flicks!!!

That picture puts me in tears everytime!!!

[Nevermind]

Stacey, I gotta disagree. I still say Monkeyslap is the coolest name so far. (ha ha)

[jun_erh]

there was an asian porno actress named yum yum shaw

[GeneChing]

WOW! 100! I'm going to rewatch some ol' Shaw Bros flick tonight and toast to his health.

Media Tycoon Run Run Shaw Turns 100
2007-10-04 11:19:15 CRIENGLISH.com

Hong Kong entertainment guru Run Run Shaw became a centenarian on Thursday.

His 100th birthday will be celebrated with a ceremony on Thursday evening in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited, better known as TVB, which is a dominant producer of long-running Cantonese TV dramas.

Shaw, who still serves as TVB's executive chairman, co-founded the empire in November, 1967.

He also co-founded another company, Shaw Brothers, in 1930. Since then it has contributed enormously to the Hong Kong martial-arts film industry. Its well-known productions include One-Armed Swordsman (1967), Five Fingers of Death (1972), and Five Deadly Venoms (1978).

The film and television tycoon is also a generous philanthropist, financing several schools in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. Many universities have buildings named after him.

He also set up the Shaw Prize, which has been dubbed the "Asian Nobel Prize."

Run Run Shaw attributes his longevity to regular exercise and his media career.

[jethro]

Good to see Mr. Burns is still alive.

[doug maverick]

i wa jus talking about this with a friend of mine. he's 100 and has produced over 349 films over the course of 40 years

[banditshaw]

Hats off to a Legend.

[Shaolinlueb]

hbd dude.


oh wait he doesnt read the board.

[doug maverick]

i just saw a awesome screening of lade runner which run run co executive produced. it was an awesome print called the final directors cut no narrative. beautiful films and t make you wnder what the **** lucas was doin with star wars when he could've made something like this.

[The Xia]

He's a pioneer in his field.

[GeneChing]

Wow. He still looks good for 104. Sir Run Run Shaw is my inspiration.

Fri, 09 December 2011 01:47 AM (HKT)
Shaw finally set to retire
By Patrick Frater
Wed, 07 December 2011, 21:09 PM (HKT)
Executive Shuffle News

Run Run SHAW 邵逸夫, the 104-year-old Hong Kong media mogul is to retire at the end of the month from Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) 電視廣播有限公司.

In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange the company said that Shaw will step down as chairman, non-executive director and executive committee member. He will instead be named as chairman emeritus at the company he founded in 1965.

TVB announced that it will promote 71 year-old executive deputy chairman Norman LEUNG 梁乃鵬 to executive chairman. He will receive a salary of HK$5.76 million ($740,000) and directors fees of HK$150,000 ($19,300) and a bonus. In his deputy chairman role Leung is entitled to a HK$1 million ($129,000) bonus for the current year.

TVB, which has terrestrial TV broadcasting in Hong Kong as its mainstay, now has broadcast operations in Taiwan, North America, Australia and Europe and a programme distribution network throughout Asia, particularly in mainland China, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.