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Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH) () , previously known as Golden Harvest () 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〔Chu, Yingchi. () (2003). Hong Kong Cinema: Coloniser, Motherland and Self. Routledge. ISBN 0700717463〕 and played a major role in introducing Hong Kong films to the Western market, especially those by Bruce Lee (Concord Production Inc.) and Jackie Chan. ==History== 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 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 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 Lee film ''Enter the Dragon'' (龍爭虎鬥), a worldwide hit made with the Warner Brothers studio and Concord Production Inc. 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. Golden Harvest has also produced a number of films with Jet Li and Donnie Yen. The Company was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994. Golden Harvest's activity has declined in recent years. In 2003, they withdrew from film-making to concentrate on film financing, distribution and cinema management in Hong Kong and in Mainland China. In 2004, Li Ka-shing and EMI became shareholder of the company. In 2007, Raymond Chow sold the company to Chinese businessman Wu Kebo, who owns the China-based Orange Sky Entertainment Group. In early 2009, Golden Harvest merged with Orange Sky and was renamed Orange Sky Golden Harvest (橙天嘉禾娛樂集團有限公司). In 2009, Golden Harvest announced their relaunch and previewed a new trailer set for movies in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orange Sky Golden Harvest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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