Bey Logan

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Bey Logan

Born November 15, 1961 (1961-11-15) (age 46)
Stamford, England
Spouse(s) Ponnie Leung (divorced)
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Bey Logan (born November 15, 1961 in Stamford, England) is a respected expert on East Asian cinema, particularly Hong Kong action cinema. He is also notable as a screenwriter, film producer and as a martial artist (trained in Hung Gar) who has had (mostly minor) roles in a number of films, including The Twins Effect.

He has written two books: Hong Kong Action Cinema, an introduction to the subject, and a book about Jean-Claude Van Damme. Logan was a founder and editor of Impact magazine, and has provided audio commentaries for almost 100 East Asian films released on DVD. He is also an international representative of the Wong Fei Hung Museum.

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[edit] Career

Logan co-ran the company Shankara Productions, in partnership with actress Maggie Q and subsequently worked for Media Asia Group and Emperor Multimedia Group. He later worked for Medusa Communications providing audio commentaries for the UK releases of Hong Kong films on their Hong Kong Legends label, and latterly on other East Asian films on Medusa's Premier Asia label.

In 2006, shortly after Medusa Communications were bought out by Contender Entertainment Group, Logan left to become Vice President of Asian Acquisitions & Co-Productions at The Weinstein Company, where he oversees the company's Dragon Dynasty brand of Asian titles. In this capacity he has a hand in acquiring both new being produced in Asia and old films, some of which have never before been released on DVD. All of the Dragon Dynasty titles to date have contained extensive special features, including interviews, documentaries and audio commentaries. Most of the commentaries on these Dragon Dynasty releases feature Bey as either main speaker or host for any guest commentators that would share the track.

[edit] Filmography & DVD commentaries

Further information: Bey Logan filmography

Logan has worked in the Hong Kong film industry as an actor, screenwriter and producer since 1993. Notably, he wrote the screenplay for Jackie Chan's film, The Medallion (2003) and produced and appeared in the films The Twins Effect (2003) and Dragon Squad (2005). He wrote the scripts for the docuementaries Jackie Chan: My Story (1998) and Jackie Chan: My Stunts (1999), co-producing the former with Jackie Chan.

He appeared in an episode of the Fist of Fury television series, in 1995. He also appeared in the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey and wrote and performed voice dubbing in another Lee documentary, Bruce Lee in G.O.D.. On a couple of DVD commentaries for Hong Kong Legends, Logan revealed that he found the long-lost footage filmed by Bruce Lee for Game of Death whilst looking through the vaults of Media Asia (his employers at the time). This footage was subsequently releasd on the bonus disc of the Hong Kong Legends release of Game of Death, as well as on the Warner Home Video release of the documentary Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey.

Logan is also noted for his many audio commentaries on international DVD releases of East Asian (predominantly Hong Kong) films. He has recorded 99 film commentaries to date, as follows:

Commentaries Studio Film Origin DVD released by DVD released in
4
 Shaw Brothers Studio Hong Kong Celestial Pictures / IVL Hong Kong (R3)
1
 Cinema City Hong Kong Optimum Asia UK (R2)
58
 Mainly Golden Harvest Hong Kong Hong Kong Legends UK (R2)
13
 Various Japan, Thailand
South Korea		 Premier Asia UK (R2)
23
 Various Hong Kong, Mainland China,
South Korea, Thailand		 Dragon Dynasty USA (R1)

[edit] Personal life

Logan was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He has been based in Hong Kong since 1995. In 1996 he married Ponnie Leung, and they had three children together (Ryan, Calvin and Kyle) before getting divorced in 2004. He attributes his conversion to Buddhism to his wife. Logan is half-brother to Australian singer Kate Ceberano.

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