Ming Beaver Kwei (; born November 12, 1966) is an American film producer based in Los Angeles and China. He is the son of famed Shaw Brothers Studio director Kuei Chih-Hung (桂治洪) (Killer Constable, Hex). Kwei has produced two hit comedies starring Zhang Ziyi, Sophie's Revenge and its follow-up, My Lucky Star (Fei chang xing yun), as well as the films 'I Remember', The Precipice Game , Legend of Sun and Moon and Unspoken. Kwei was an associate producer on The Meg, a 2018 shark thriller starring Jason Statham and Li Bingbing that has grossed more than $530 million worldwide. His other film credits include The Adventurers (executive producer), Slam (associate producer) and The Painted Veil (associate producer). Early life Born YauMing Kwei in Hong Kong, Beaver grew up on the Shaw Brothers backlot with his filmmaking family, where his father directed 75 films and his mother worked as a Foley artist. “I was used to coconut shells, buckets of gravel and doors that led nowhere on a sound stage. My math tutor was the projectionist, “Kwei told The Hollywood Reporter in 2011. He lived in studio-subsidized housing with his family, and counted Hong Kong filmmakers Chang Cheh (co-director on Kuei's The Delinquent), Ching Gang, father of Tony Ching Siu-Tung (A Chinese Ghost Story) and Derek Yee Tung-sing (Protege) as neighbors. “Shaw kept everybody in their little kingdom. Directors in one block and stars in the next building.” After relocating to the United States with his family in the 1980s, Kwei attended St. Michael's Preparatory School, a Catholic boys boarding school in southern Orange County, California. His father discouraged him from pursuing a career in the film industry, preferring that Kwei become an engineer instead. Nevertheless, Kwei was accepted into the film program at the University of California, Irvine. “I always knew I’d be in films. But I also knew I didn’t want to be a director,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. Career Kwei began his Hollywood career as a personal assistant to Jet Li on such popular movies as Hero, Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon. Li recalled on the press circuit how Kwei’s input became instrumental in developing the climactic fight scene in 2001’s Kiss of the Dragon: “We had scheduled six days to film the final fight scene. After the third day, back at the hotel, Beaver suddenly told me why he thought the scene