Hong Kong- Celestial Pictures has partnered with Movie Master to distribute more than 500 films from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers library on DVD in Malaysia. The Chinese film collection will be released over five years, and is available initially through 100 retail outlets. Shaw Brothers titles in the genres of action, comedy, martial arts and period dramas will be available on DVD. Movie Master also holds the rights to distribute back catalogue titles including martial-arts classics Come Drink With Me and One-Armed Swordsman. Celestial Pictures also sealed an exclusive deal with South Africa’s independent distributor, Sandon Associates CC, to launch Shaw Brothers titles on home video to eight countries in Africa: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The martial-arts titles will be available in VHS, VCD and DVD. The Shaw Brothers Film Library consists of 760 films produced from the 1950s to the 1990s. Celestial Pictures has been re-mastering and distributing these films to cinema, home video, television, and new media markets worldwide since 2003, and has sold to 72 countries, including the latest deals.