Launched March 3, 2003 Transvision (Indonesia) Channel 141 Founded 2003 | Website celestialmovies.com Indovision Indonesia Channel 20 | |
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Celestial Movies and Celestial Movies HD is a 24-hour Cantonese and Mandarin movie channel. The channel also screens films from Japan and Korea, and shows 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, Sri Lanka and other Asian countries, Celestial Movies is claimed to be the most broadly distributed Chinese-movie channel.
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Movie Line-up
The channel features Chinese blockbusters, movies from regional film studios such as Media Asia Distribution, Emperor Motion Pictures, Filmko Pictures, Golden Harvest Entertainment, CJ Entertainment and Toho.
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, documentaries and shorts. Celestial also produces a number of original behind-the-scenes programs such as: Celestial Cameos, Director To Director, Celestial Express and Star Talk.
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.
Celestial Movies Pinoy
Celestial Tiger Entertainment has teamed with Viva Communications to create Celestial Movies Pinoy, a localized Philippines version of CTE’s Chinese film channel Celestial Movies. The channel began to test broadcast on November 16, 2015.
This channel was launched on January 1, 2016 on the basic tier of DTH satellite provider Cignal TV. Movies and on-air presentations are dubbed in a mixture of Tagalog and English.
Their programming is a mix of Chinese-language movies and TV series, behind-the-scenes specials, interviews with Chinese talent and thematic programming centered around superstars or popular genres.