Expanded Carriage for Celestial Classic Movies

HONG KONG: Celestial Tiger Entertainment has expanded the reach of its channel devoted to classic Chinese movies, inking a deal for a branded block in Taiwan and carriage agreements in the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Celestial Classic Movies, which taps into the Shaw Brothers library, as well as other collections devoted to iconic Chinese movies, will run as a block on Central Motion Pictures channel in Taiwan, carried on Chunghwa Telecom MOD, beginning in May. The service is also headed to Cablelink’s Digital Movies and Chinese tiers in the Philippines and bbTV in Hong Kong.

“The momentum for Celestial Classic Movies’ footprint expansion keeps building," said Ofanny Choi, the executive VP of TV networks at Celestial Tiger. "The channel is now in eight territories and on 16 platforms, making it the most widely carried classic Chinese movie channel in the world. Even more fans around Asia will now get to enjoy some of the best kung fu movies of all time and other Chinese cinematic gems in digitally remastered as well as high definition quality.”

CCM is now available in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.