Celestial Scores Slovenian, Israeli Deals on Martial-Arts Films

HONG KONG, October 8: Celestial
Pictures has expanded the reach of its Shaw Brothers martial-arts films into
Slovenia and Israel, scoring deals with Viasat Broadcasting and
SAT-Interactive.

The Viasat deal marks the
first time Celestial’s Shaw Brothers martial arts films will be available on TV3
Slovenia. Under the agreement, Viasat has taken a package of kung-fu classics,
among them The Five Deadly Venoms, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and One-Armed Swordsman.

The SAT deal brings Shaw
Brothers features to the Hot Cable Channel and VOD platforms in Israeli.

The Shaw Brothers library
consists of 760 films produced from the 1950s to the 1990s. Since 2002,
Celestial Pictures has been making these remastered versions available to
audiences around the world.

Those titles, in HD, will
be available at MIPCOM this week, alongside The King Boxer mobisodes, which were nominated for this market’s MIPCOM
2007 Mobile & Internet TV Awards.

Mobisodes, video
messaging, video clips, ring tones, wallpaper and games will be a focus at
MIPCOM. As will be the mobile TV channel Kung Fu TV, which features short-form
segments of kung-fu film clips from the Shaw Brothers slate.