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| Celestial Movies | |
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| Celestial Movies Logo | |
| Launched | March 3, 2003 |
| Website | celestialmovies.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Astro Malaysia | Channel 322 |
| Kristal-Astro Brunei | Channel 322 |
| Indovision Indonesia | Channel 20 |
| TelkomVision Indonesia | |
| TVB Pay Vision Hong Kong | Channel 20 |
| Jadeworld Australia | Channel 2 |
| PSN (Cable) Thailand | |
| VTV Vietnam | |
| Dream Satellite TV Philippines | TBA |
| Cignal Digital TV Philippines | TBA |
| China | available in hotels (3 stars or above) and foreign residential compounds |
| Aora TV Indonesia | Channel 408 |
| Cable | |
| StarHub TV Singapore | Channel 61 |
| First Media Indonesia | Channel 205 |
| SkyCable Philippines | TBA |
| Global Destiny Cable Philippines | TBA |
| IPTV | |
| now TV Hong Kong | Channel 147 |
Celestial Movies is a 24-hour movie channel bringing current Chinese blockbusters to the world. The channel also showcases internationally acclaimed titles from Japan and Korea, and features behind-the-scenes, interviews with movie stars and directors, entertainment news and film award ceremonies. Available in 11 territories across Asia Pacific, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and other Asian countries, Celestial Movies is the most broadly distributed Chinese-movie channel.
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Movie Line-up
The channel features Chinese blockbusters, internationally acclaimed and award-winning movies from leading regional film studios such as Media Asia Distribution, Emperor Motion Pictures, Filmko Pictures, Golden Harvest Entertainment, CJ Entertainment and Toho.
It also features movies from award-winning directors such as Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wei, Zhang Yi-mou, Chang Cheh and Feng Xiao-gong; and leading celebrities such as Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Gong Li and Zhang Zhi-yi.
Scheduling
On weeknights, movies are scheduled by genres: namely Drama Monday, Action Tuesday, Comedy Wednesday, Romance Thursday and Fantasy Friday. During Saturday and Sunday nights, Celestial Movies showcases the blockbusters and first-run movies.
Other programmes include news of movie and film-festival from around the globe, exclusive documentaries and award-winning shorts. Celestial also produces a number of original behind-the-scenes programs such as: Celestial Cameos, Director To Director, Celestial Express and Star Talk.
Sister Channels
Celestial Movies Asia
Celestial Movies Asia (CMA) is a 24-hour pay-TV movie channel that features blockbusters and quality movies from major film-producing territories in Asia. With a choice of more than 100 titles from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore every month, CMA offers the best of Asian cinema and premieres a variety of regional movies.
CMA weekend appointment viewing aims to enhance movie viewing experience for audiences: Every Saturday night, CMA showcases Asian blockbusters of selected topics or genre. While on every Sunday night, CMA broadcasts the latest or even unscreened Asian movies exclusively in Celestial Asia Premiere.
Celestial Classic Movies
Celestial Classic Movies (CCM) is a 24-hour pay-TV movie channel screening Chinese classic movie masterpieces from the renowned Shaw Brothers library and other film libraries. All Shaw Brothers movies are digitally restored to bring viewers sound and picture quality matching the original cinematic prints.
CCM gives audiences access to some of the best Chinese films ever produced, and definitive movie moments from master directors like John Woo, Yuen Woo-ping, Tony Ching Siu-tung, Chang Cheh, King Hu, Liu Chia-liang, Chu Yuan as well as artists like Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Cheng Pei-pei, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Ti Lung, Gordon Liu and Liu Chia-liang.
External links
- CELESTIAL MOVIES Official Site
- CELESTIAL MOVIES ASIA
- CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES
- Celestial Pictures
- ASTRO All Asia Networks plc
References
- Screendaily.com (2007), "Celestial Movies launches on Indonesia's TELKOMVision", retrieved on June 30, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celestial_Movies&action=edit
- Television Asia (2008), "Celestial Movies Asia and Celestial Classic Movies channels debut on now TV", retrieved on June 30, 2009, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-179075879.html
- Television Asia (20030, "Celestial Movies launched at the most auspicious time: 3pm on the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 3rd year of the millennium. Clearly Asia's newest channel is taking as few chances as possible", retrieved on June 30, 2009, http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22891271_ITM
- Television Asia Plus Website, "Channel Description", retrieve on June 30, 2009, http://www.onscreenasia.com/annualguide/Channels/detail-10-CELESTIAL%20MOVIES
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