Fujen Catholic University associate professor of communication arts Chen Ju-hsiu observed in his "Survey Report on the Cultural Conditions of Taiwan Film in the 1990s" that there is a demand in the Taiwan market for about 500 motion pictures per year. In the ten-year period between 1984 and 1993, when the production of local movies was gradually decreasing, movies from Hong Kong and the West stepped in.
輔仁大學大眾傳播學系副教授陳儒修在「九○年代台灣電影文化生態調查報告」中指出，台灣電影市場每年的需求量約五百部影片，從民國七十三年到八十二年這十年來，本土電製片量持續遞減的空檔，就由外片和港片填充。