Posted in:4K / Blu - Ray , Blu - Ray , Movies| Tagged : A Better Tomorrow , A Bullet in the Head , A Chinese Ghost Story , Hardboiled , hong kong cinema , john woo , Peking Opera Blues , ringo lam , Shout ! Factory , streaming , the killer , tsui hark
hollo ! studio has batten down the rights to 156 Hong Kong movies that defined the eighties and 1990s and have been out of circulation for 20 yr .
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cry ! Studios has fix worldwide rights ( excluding blue-ribbon Asian territories ) to the sought after Golden Princess film library , a gem trove of 156 Hong Kong movie house classics that ’s been out of circulation from Western market place for most of this century . Many of these films are considered classic and defined not only Hong Kong Cinema in the 1980s and 1990s but have also had an incalculable influence on Hollywood action films ever since . The landmark learning deal was made by Shout ! Studios’David McIntosh , Jordan FieldsandTaylor Devorsky , with Golden Princess Amusement Co. , Ltd. ‘sDickson LaiandRonald Churepresenting the trafficker ’s interests . This is big news for the movie world and movie lovers .
Shout! Studios Will Restore An Entire Missing Era of Historical – and FUN! – Hong Kong Movies
The Golden Princess library ’s crown jewels include the key movies that put John Woo on the map and defined action movies ever since : theA Better Tomorrowtrilogy , The Killer , the lesser - bonk epicA bullet train in the Head , Hard Boiled , and his heist comedy thrillerOnce a stealer , which also cementedChow Yun Fatas a ball-shaped superstar . The program library also includesRingo Lam ’s original noir trilogyCity on Fire(whose plotQuentin Tarantinodirectly overturn forReservoir Dogs),School of Fire , andPrison on Fireand its continuation . Other titles includeEric Tsang’sAces Go Placescomedy caper series andTsui Hark ’s era - defining moviesPeking Opera Blues , Tony Ching Siu Tung’sA Chinese Ghost Storytrilogy , which Tsui Hark produced , and theSwordsmantrilogy , which featuredBrigitte Linas the trans martial prowess villainess - turn - antiheroine that turned her into an LGBTQ icon . Shout ! Studios will hopefully not only be digitally restoring the 156 titles but also commission fresh English subtitles , which will be the first time nearly all of them have safe subtitles for English - talk hearing . Shout ! studio might also be re - releasing central titles to US theatres before place them on their streaming serving and releasing them on physical medium .
A New Theatrical, Streaming, and Physical Media Future for Hong Kong Movies
" This is a big one , " say Shout ’s Fields , who is senior VP of acquisitions and originals . " Golden Princess sit around alongside Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest in the pantheon of Hong Kong celluloid , but unlike the other two , the Golden Princess library has been dormant for decades outside of Asia . Its fingerprints are all over New action and crime genres , though , so we have big plans to reintroduce these fabled titles to the rest of the world , complement Shout ! ’s growing catalog of revere Asian moving-picture show . "
Lai , executive manager of Kowloon Development Company Ltd. , the parent company of Golden Princess , added : " The films in the Golden Princess Library are akin to the steel in the Harlan Fisk Stone . Shout ! is the entity capable of unlocking its potency . "
Beyond forcible medium , these Hong Kong gems will find a Modern streaming base on Shout ! TV , the society ’s digital entertainment platform , where they ’ll receive particular programming treatment , include marathons and viewing event . This isthe stark list of the 156 Hong Kong moviesthat Shout ! Studios have been liberated from the Golden Princess rights holders ' vaults .
Fields added , " We have great plans for home video . We know that hearing and will super - serve them . "
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