Terence Chang Chia-Chen () is a
Hong Kong
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and
American
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** American ancestry, pe ...
film producer
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.
Career
Chang is one of
John Woo
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's long time friends and favoured producers. Chang produced the
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
action hit ''
Face/Off
''Face/Off'' is a 1997 American science fiction action thriller film directed by John Woo, written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, and starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.
The first Hollywood film in which Woo was given major creative ...
'' and ''
Mission: Impossible 2''.
Following the box-office disappointment of ''
The Crossing'',
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly-influential figure in the action film genre. He was a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu ...
and Chang disbanded
Lion Rock Productions
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS (; born September 22, 1946) is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly-influential figure in the action film genre. He was a pioneer of heroic bloodshed films (a crime action film genre involving Chinese triads) and the gun fu ...
.
Following the film, Chang was an executive producer on
Zhou Quan
Zhou Quan (; born 16 Nov 1987) is a Chinese filmmaker. His directorial debut End of Summer (2017 film), End of Summer won KNN Award at 22nd Busan International Film Festival.
Early life
Zhou Quan was born and raised in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zheji ...
's film ''
End Of Summer'' and
Yang Lu's 2014 film ''
Brotherhood of Blades
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''.
Following the disbandment Lion Rock, Chang created the Hong Kong-based Mannix Pictures, a team which included talent agent Amanda Yang Xin in Beijing and Shanghai-based
Lucida Entertainment.
Documentaries
Chang is among the actors, producers and directors interviewed in the documentary ''
The Slanted Screen ''The Slanted Screen'' is a 2006 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Jeff Adachi which examines the stereotypical portrayals and absence of East Asian males in the cinema of the United States. The film analyzes Hollywood from the ...
'' (2006), directed by
Jeff Adachi
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Early life and education
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, about the representation of
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and
Asian American
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men in
Hollywood
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Places United States
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* Hollywood, ...
.
''Kowloon City''
On August 22, 2007,
Fruit Chan
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announced that he will make a film on
Bruce Lee
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's early years, specifically, the
Chinese-language
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movie, ''Kowloon City''. The film will be produced by Chang. The film will be set in 1950s
Hong Kong
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. Chang's credits include ''Made in Hong Kong'', ''Hollywood Hong Kong'' and ''Durian Durian''.
Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer.
Kwan landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. ...
stated that he was talking with Lee's family to make a movie about the late action movie icon. Further, in April, Chinese state media announced that its national broadcaster started filming a 40-part TV series on Bruce Lee to promote Chinese culture for the 2008
Beijing Summer Olympics
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.
IHT, Report: Hong Kong director plans Bruce Lee biopic
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Partial filmography
As producer
* '' The Killer'' (1989)
* '' Once a Thief'' (1991)
* '' Hard Boiled'' (1992)
* ''Hard Target
''Hard Target'' is a 1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo in his U.S. debut. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work homeless Cajun merchant seaman and former United States Forc ...
'' (1993)
* '' Broken Arrow'' (1996)
* ''Face/Off
''Face/Off'' is a 1997 American science fiction action thriller film directed by John Woo, written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, and starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.
The first Hollywood film in which Woo was given major creative ...
'' (1997)
* ''Windtalkers
''Windtalkers'' is a 2002 American war film directed and co-produced by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, and Christian Slater. It is based on the real story of Navajo code talkers during ...
'' (2002)
* ''Bulletproof Monk
''Bulletproof Monk'' is a 2003 American superhero comedy film directed by Paul Hunter in his feature film directorial debut, and starring Chow Yun-fat, Seann William Scott, and Jaime King. The film is loosely based on the comic book written by B ...
'' (2003)
* ''Paycheck
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'' (2003)
* '' Blood Brothers'' (2007)
* '' Red Cliff'' (2008)
* '' The Crossing'' (2014)
References
External links
*
Terence Chang at rottentomatoes.com
American film producers
Living people
University of Oregon alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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