{"id":96583,"date":"2026-10-30T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96583"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:14:26","slug":"how-hong-kong-cinema-forever-changed-after-cepa-and-the-mainland-china-co-production-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96583","title":{"rendered":"How Hong Kong cinema forever changed after Cepa and the mainland China co-production boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/27\/71602b0e-5600-4e93-9a7e-2396f375e2d3_3b3e2a61.jpg?itok=2-zTOIVi&amp;v=1793079882\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Hong Kong cinema has always thrived on a certain kind of beautiful madness \u2013 precisely the quality local audiences cherish most. However, when the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Cepa<\/span>) opened the mainland Chinese market to Hong Kong co-productions in 2004, cross-border film collaborations surged.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong filmmakers zealously partnered with mainland companies, drawn by bigger budgets, lower production costs and the prospect of reaping financial rewards from a massive new audience. But those opportunities came at a price.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Although Hong Kong viewers enjoyed glossy historical blockbusters like <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Peter Chan Ho-sun<\/span>\u2019s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">The Warlords<\/em><\/span> (2007), they soon tired of them. Hong Kong filmmakers had to make many compromises \u2013 not only political and cultural concessions, but also creative ones, as censorship was strict and mainland audiences had significantly different tastes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3372243\/how-hong-kong-cinema-forever-changed-after-cepa-and-mainland-china-co-production-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong cinema has always thrived on a certain kind of beautiful madness \u2013 precisely the quality local audiences cherish most. However, when the Closer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6233,32282,1767,832,6912,11622,3569,5231,10300],"class_list":["post-96583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-boom","tag-cepa","tag-changed","tag-china","tag-cinema","tag-coproduction","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-mainland","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}