Western A-listers such as Nicolas Cage are being tempted to live in Hong Kong
Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme has been living here for almost seven years and Nicolas Cage wants to move here. Film critic and director Freddie Wong said: "Hong Kong is a good choice as a second base. The mainland is a big market and to get audiences to know them, stars will come to China.
Mainland film stars might soon be rubbing shoulders with Hollywood A-listers in the hotspots of Hong Kong.
The city has become an attractive alternative home for big-name mainland actresses such as Zhang Ziyi, Tang Wei and Zhao Wei, who have residency.
It makes it easy for them to travel overseas, according to Hong Kong Film Critics Society president Ernest Chan Chi-wa.
Now it seems the city could be a potential second home for Western movie industry heavyweights eyeing the lucrative mainland market.
Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme has been living here for almost seven years and Nicolas Cage wants to move here. Film critic and director Freddie Wong said: "Hong Kong is a good choice as a second base. The mainland is a big market and to get audiences to know them, stars will come to China.
"English works here, it's only a short flight to Shanghai or Beijing and the free flow of information is also important."
