Karl Maka
The trailblazer was production company Cinema City, founded in 1980 by comedians Karl Maka, Raymond Wong and Dean Shek. It specialised in contemporary comedy and action, slickly produced according to explicitly prescribed commercial formulas. The lavish, effects-filled spy spoof "Aces Go Places" (1982) and its numerous sequels epitomised the much-imitated "Cinema City style" (Yang, 2003).