In addition, movies from Hollywood and Hong Kong started to dominate Indonesian cinema.

Hindi filmmakers combined the Hollywood musical formula with the conventions of ancient Indian theatre to create a new film genre called "Masala", which dominated Indian cinema throughout the late 20th century.

The Union Theatres and Australasian Films dominated cinema in Australia in the 1910s and 1920s.

Garai has been hailed by her Glorious 39 director Stephen Poliakoff as "the next Kate Winslet" and someone who will "dominate British cinema" in the future.

Shochiku, founded in 1895 as a company that produced touring Kabuki shows, and Nikkatsu, born in 1912 from a cartel of independent studios, were the two production houses that dominated early Japanese cinema, and both are still in business today.

This led the same year to PAGU becoming a founder of the new government-backed conglomerate UFA, which merged many of German's leading production companies into a single organisation which would dominate German cinema for the next thirty years.

Multiplexes dominate popular cinema going and they show a tiny range of films and it is one of the things about our society that is draining its life blood away.

CHILI westerns and movies about hookers and narcs dominated Mexican cinema during the 1980's and half of the 90's.

Two years ago, French backers of the festival fretted openly about the arrival of a newly democratic South Africa as a potent cultural force that would come to dominate African cinema, much as South African influence has spread in other fields.

Just as America has dominated popular culture since the invention of the gramaphone, early cinema and so on.