Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment

In 1970, three executives from the dominant Shaw Brothers studio, Raymond Chow, Leonard Ho, and Peter Choy, decided to forge their own path. They founded Golden Harvest, a film production company built on a different model: collaborating with independent producers and offering talent more creative freedom and better pay. This strategy quickly paid off, attracting talent and leading to a pivotal deal in 1971 with martial arts star Bruce Lee. Their films together were among the first from Hong Kong to gain a massive global audience. Golden Harvest went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1994, cementing its status as a major player. For decades, it dominated the Hong Kong box office, popularizing the action-comedy genre and launching the international careers of stars like Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. The company expanded beyond production, opening its first cinema in 1977 and later pioneering the multiplex concept in Singapore in 1992. A significant transformation occurred in 2007 when Chinese businessman Wu Kebo acquired the company, and by 2009, Golden Harvest had merged with his Orange Sky Entertainment Group. This created the entity known today as Orange Sky Golden Harvest. Following the merger, the company shifted its focus from filmmaking to film financing, distribution, and cinema management across Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore. However, in a major strategic shift, the company ceased all its cinema operations in Hong Kong by June 2025.