Golden Harvest Company
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| Public company | |
| Industry | Film production |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder |
Raymond Chow Leonard Ho Leung Fung |
| Headquarters |
16th floor, The Peninsula Office Tower 18 Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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Key people
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Raymond Chow Leonard Ho |
| Products | movies |
| Website | http://www.goldenharvest.com |
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| Traditional Chinese | 橙天嘉禾娛樂集團公司 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 橙天嘉禾娱乐集团公司 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Chéngtiān jiāhé yúlè jítuán gōngsī |
| Wade–Giles | Ch'engt'ian chiahe yüle chit'uan yuhsienkungszu |
| Yale Romanization | Chéngtyān jyāhé yúlè jítwán yǒusyàngūngsz̄ |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Cháangtín gáawòh yùhlohk jaahptyùhn gūngsì |
| IPA | [tsʰǎːŋtʰɪ́n káːwɔ̏ː jy̏ːlɔ̀ːk tsàːptʰy̏ːn jɐ̬uhàːŋkʊ́ŋsî] |
| Jyutping | Caang2tin1 gaa1wo4 jyu4lok6 zaap6tyun4 gung1si1 |
Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH) (Chinese: 橙天嘉禾娛樂集團公司) : 1132, previously known as Golden Harvest (Chinese: 嘉禾娛樂事業集團公司) from 1970 to 2009, is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. It dominated Hong Kong box office sales from the 1970s to 1980s and played a major role in introducing Hong Kong films to the Western market, especially those by Bruce Lee (Concord Production Inc.), Jackie Chan, and Sammo Hung.
Notable names in the company include its founders, the veteran film producers Raymond Chow (鄒文懐) and Leonard Ho (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 Shaw model. Golden Harvest contracted with independent producers and gave talent more generous pay and greater creative freedom. Some filmmakers and actors from Shaw Brothers defected. But what really put the company on the map was a 1971 deal with soon-to-be martial arts superstar Bruce Lee with the film The Big Boss, after he had turned down the low-paying standard contract offered him by the Shaws.
In 1973, Golden Harvest entered into a pioneering co-production with Hollywood for the English-language Bruce Lee film, Enter the Dragon (龍爭虎鬥), a worldwide hit made with the Warner Brothers studio and Concord Production Inc.
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