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Terence Chang (Chang Chia Tsun in Chinese) was born in 1949 in Hong Kong. He studied architecture at the University of Oregon and cinema at the University of New York. Back to the Far East, he entered the Hong Kong film industry in the 1970s joining Golden Harvest, the studio whose productions made Bruce Lee an international action icon.
At Golden Harvest, Chang was busy re-editing and updating films to match the local audience taste. That’s when he met John Woo for the first time. But they went their separate ways.
Chang worked a few years in marketing and sales departments for a local TV station and a film company. In 1986, he became an executive in Tsui Hark’s film company, the Film Workshop. There, he and Woo met again and decided to collaborate. Together, they started making more meaningful films: The influential A Better Tomorrow and its sequel.
At some point, Chang and Woo decided to leave the Tsui’s clan. They founded Milestone Pictures and produced three box office hits with Chow Yun-fat: Once A Thief; Hard Boiled; and Now You See Love, Now You Don’t.
Early 1990’s, with the threat of the 1997 handover looming, Woo and Chang relocated in Hollywood. They were followed by a great many Hong Kong talents, such as Michelle Yeoh, Kirk Wong, Ronny Yu and Chow Yun-fat.
Since then, Chang has been busy launching and managing all the Hong Kong celebrities relocating to the US (more than a trend, it was like a haemorrhage).
For instance, it was Chang who helped launch Chow Yun-fat’s American career in the early 1990s. It was him who organized retrospectives with Chow’s films all around North America, him who introduced Chow to the most prestigious Hollywood talent agency William Morris Agency, him who negotiated film contracts (Anna and the King, The Replacement Killers) and him who developed scripts especially for Chow (X-LA, Charlie Apana and Lost in Translation).
Chang has been even more dedicated to John Woo’s career, as an advisor, a producer and a friend. He supported the master of action in all his artistic decisions. The odd couple conquered the Hong Kong and Hollywood box offices. In 2007, it was time to bring back home all the filmmaking expertise they accumulated over the years. They made one the most expensive period epics ever made in China, Red Cliff.
Thomas Podvin (March 2010)
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