Tong's directing credits include the US. TV series Martial Law and Rumble in the Bronx, starring Jackie Chan.
UCLA is known for its prestigious film program. Its graduates include Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola, The Shawshank Redemption star Tim Robbins, and A Few Good Men director Rob Reiner.
And in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee will be cast as a bronze statue to mark what would have been his 65th birthday in November after thousands of his fans around the world voted for their favorite pose of the late martial arts legend.
More than 57,000 fans took part in the Internet vote organized by the Bruce Lee Club in Hong Kong.
They chose a barechested Lee dressed in black kung fu trousers and shoes in a pose taken from the 1972 classic Fist of Fury in which he plays a martial arts student fighting against the Japanese in China to take revenge for the death of his teacher.
The 2.5m statue, which will cost HK$600,000 (US$77,000) to build, will be unveiled on Nov. 27.
It will be the first statue of Lee to be erected in Hong Kong, where the San Francisco-born kung fu master was brought up and died.
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