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{{Short description|Hong Kong film company}}
'''Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd.''' ({{zh|銀都機構有限公司}}), is a [[Hong Kong]] [[production company]] involved in the [[Coproduction (film)|co-production]] and [[Film distributor|distribution]] of films made throughout Hong Kong and [[China]].
==Background==
===History===
After [[World War II]], [[Shanghai]] filmmakers moved to [[Hong Kong]] and established four production companies--[[Great Wall Movie Enterprises Ltd]], The [[Feng Huang Motion Pictures Co.]], The [[Sun Luen Film Co.]] and The [[Chung Yuen Motion Picture Co.]], a joint venture between Great Wall and Sun Luen. These four companies were highly influential in the early 1950s. They were known as "left-wings" and often made idealistic movies that were social commentaries. Few were of the [[Kung Fu]] genre, but the collective library does include ''[[Shaolin Temple]]'' and ''[[Kids From Shaolin]].''<ref name=Variety>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/769/53/ |title=Sil-Metropole stands tall in the straddle |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety Asia]] |author=Rothrock, Victoria |date=2007-02-12 |accessdate=2007-11-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209090002/http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/769/53/ |archivedate=February 9, 2012 }}</ref>
After China's [[Cultural Revolution]] in the mid-1970s, the Chinese audience largely dried up. In 1982, the four companies decided to merge and became today's Sil-Metropole.
While Sil-Metropole is a Hong Kong-registered company with an island office of around 50 people, it is managed by the [[Government of the People's Republic of China|Chinese Government]].<ref name=Variety/>
===Company===
Sil-Metropole is given the same status as a [[Mainland China]] state-owned studio, allowing it to be the Chinese partner on co-productions. Its portfolio ranges from co-productions to distribution, as well as TV series and operating a Hong Kong studio and theater.<ref name=Variety/>
Sil-Metropole typically works on more than 10 co-productions a year as a Chinese partner. Some of its projects include ''[[Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon]]'', ''[[Invisible Target]]'', ''[[Throw Down (film)|Throw Down]]'', ''[[Confession of Pain]]'' and ''[[Star Runner]]''. The company is also involved in television series and currently produces its own projects.<ref name=Variety/>
While its arthouse theater, [[Cine-Art]], was closed down in late 2006, Sil-Metropole still owns and operates the [[Silver Theater]] in [[Kwun Tong]], Hong Kong, which it has had since 1963 under one of the original four companies.<ref name=Variety/>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.sil-metropole.com/m/ Official site]
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0239007 IMDb With Sil-Metropole Organisation]
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[[Category:Film production companies of Hong Kong]]
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