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Golden Harvest (Chinese: 嘉禾) SEHK: 1132 is a film production, distribution and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Chinese: 香港交易所, also 港交所; abbreviated as SEHK and HKSE; HKEx: 0388) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ...


Notable names in the company include its founders, the veteran film producers Raymond Chow (born 1 January 1929) (鄒文懐) and Leonard Ho Koon Cheung (何冠昌). Chow and Ho were executives with Hong Kong's top studio, Shaw Brothers, but left in 1970 to form their own studio. They succeeded by taking a different approach from the highly centralized Shaws model. Golden Harvest contracted with independent producers and gave talent more generous pay and greater creative freedom. Some filmmakers and actors from Shaws defected. But the making of the company was a 1971 deal with soon-to-be martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, after he had turned down the low-paying, standard contract offered him by Shaws. The Shaw Studio (邵氏片場), owned by Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. ... Martial arts film is a film genre that originated in the Pacific Rim. ... Bruce Lee in the film Enter the Dragon. ...


In 1973, Golden Harvest entered into a pioneering co-production with Hollywood for the English-language Lee film Enter the Dragon (龍爭虎鬥), a worldwide hit made with the Warner Brothers studio. ... Enter the Dragon (《龍爭虎鬥》 aka. ... Warner Bros. ...


Golden Harvest supplanted Shaw Brothers as Hong Kong's dominant studio by the end of the '70s and retained that position into the '90s. Its greatest asset for years was that from the 1980s until very recently, it produced almost all of the films of Jackie Chan, Asia's top box office star. Chan Kong-sang known as Jackie Chan (born on April 7, 1954 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese martial artist, actor, director, stuntman and singer. ...


The company has passed its heyday, and now produces fewer than five films a year. Cinema management in Hong Kong and in Mainland China is now its main business activity. The highlighted area in the map is what is commonly known as mainland China. Mainland China (Simplified Chinese: 中国大陆; Traditional Chinese: 中國大陸; pinyin: Zhōnggúo Dàlù; literally The Chinese Massive Landmass or Continental China) is an informal (disputed — see talk page) geographical term which is usually synonymous with the area...

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Cinemas

Entrance to Grand Ocean Cinema at Harbour City
Entrance to Grand Ocean Cinema at Harbour City

It has cinemas not only in Hong Kong, but in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, most are joint ventures. Golden Village is a joint venture with Village Roadshow and there is a Gold Class cinema and Asia's first multiplex. In Malaysia, the group has two brands, one Golden Screen a joint venture with Malaysia's PPB group. And another TGV Cinemas, formerly Tanjong Golden Village, a joint venture between Tanjong plc and GEMS of Malaysia. It had recently acquired Warner Village in Taiwan. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 505 KB) Summary Golden Harvest Grand Ocean at Harbour City, Hong Kong. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 505 KB) Summary Golden Harvest Grand Ocean at Harbour City, Hong Kong. ... A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... Golden Village is a cinema operator in Singapore which is a joint venture by Golden Harvest of Hong Kong and Village Roadshow of Australia. ... Logo of Village Roadshow Village Roadshow ASX: VRL is an Australian media company with interests in cinema, theme parks, film production and distribution. ...


The group operates 5 cinemas in Hong Kong.


Golden Harvest Cinemas in Hong Kong

A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... Large crowd of shoppers can be seen on Causeway Bay. ... Plaza Hollywood (荷里活廣場) is one of the largest shopping malls in the Diamond Hill area, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. ... Diamond Hill (鑽石山) is a hill in Kowloon, Hong Kong. ...

Films Produced

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional team of four anthropomorphic turtles who were trained by their sensei, Master Splinter, to become skilled ninja warriors. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III is a 1993 live-action film, the second sequel to the 1990 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. ... The Shaolin temples (少林寺; pinyin: Shàolín Sì, Wade-Giles: Shao-lin Ssŭ) are a group of Chinese Buddhist monasteries famed for their long association with Chán (Japanese Zen) Buddhism and martial arts. ... UK DVD cover Police Story is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. ... Police Story 2 Police story 2 stars Jackie chan as Ka-Kui, Kwok Hung Lam as Superintendent Raymond and Maggie Cheung as Ka-Kuis girlfriend May. ... Police Story 3 DVD cover USA DVD cover Police Story 3 or Super Cop (警察故事3超級警察) is a 1992 Hong Kong movie starring Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung. ... For the 1986 TV series, see Crime Story (TV Series). ... A late 80s Hong Kong action movie. ... Jackie Chans Project A (aka. ... Jackie Chan movie which serves as a sequel to the massive Asian hit film Project A. Category: ... The Big Boss (1971, 唐山大兄, also known as Fists of Fury in the U.S., not to be confused with Fist of Fury) was Bruce Lees first major film. ... Fist of Fury (Simplified Chinese: 精武门; Traditional Chinese: 精武門; Pinyin: JÄ«ng wÇ” mén; known as The Chinese Connection in the U.S., not to be confused with Fists of Fury) was a 1972 film directed by Lo Wei. ... Way of the Dragon (《猛龍過江》 released as Return of the Dragon in the U.S.) was the third major film of Martial Arts Legend Bruce Lee. ... Game of Death (死亡遊戲) was the film Bruce Lee had planned to be the demonstration piece of his martial art Jeet Kune Do. ... Wheels on Meals is a 1984 Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao as two men who run a fast food van in Barcelona and who both fall in love with a beautiful pickpocket. ... Cannonball Run was a campy, screwball comedy released in 1981 that starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett-Majors. ... Cannonball Run II is a film that was released in 1984. ... For the cracking and demo group, see Megaforce (group). ... Speed Zone!, released in 1989, is the third and (as of 2005) final installment of the Cannonball Run series of movies. ... The Storm Riders is a 1998 Hong Kong film directed by Andrew Lau. ... Till Death Do Us Part is the tenth album by the Latino rap group, Cypress Hill. ... Rumble in the Bronx VHS cover Rumble in the Bronx (紅番區; Hong faan kui in Cantonese) is an action-comedy movie starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui. ... Jackie Chan innocently becomes involved in a plot to sell his nations treasure, and a normally sleepy southern Chinese town is turned inside-out. ... From JDorama. ... The Blade is a 1997 album by Sol Invictus. ...

See also

The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. ... Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industrys global fame. ... This is a list of the cinemas in Hong Kong. ...

References

  • Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-674-00214-8
  • Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions. London: British Film Institute, 1997. ISBN 0-85170-514-6
  • Yang, Jeff. Once Upon a Time in China: A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema. New York: Atria, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-4817-0

External link

  • http://www.goldenharvest.com



 

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