Hong Kong – Celestial Pictures Limited (CPL) announced today that select titles from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers Film Library are now available on the iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and nine additional countries in Asia. This announcement marks the first time the films will be made available on the iTunes Store in these territories. The first titles to debut from the Shaw Brothers multiple genres catalogue are Leslie Cheung’s Behind the Yellow Line, Gordon … [Read more...] about Celestial Pictures debuts Shaw Brothers movies on iTunes Store
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Exclusive: Celestial enters new frontier
Hong Kong – Celestial Pictures took its first step into the gaming business today by launching the first-ever game application for a Chinese movie. It was developed with leading independent Chinese game developer, Art Coding. Available from today, My Kingdom Game can be played via the game’s website or downloaded for free from Apple’s iTunes store (for iPhones and iPod Touches. An iPad compatible version will be released later). Through a simple, casual rhythm-based game, the … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Celestial enters new frontier
Shaolin meets Africa
Hong Kong – Shaw Brother’s classic Kung Fu movies are landing in Africa, following a landmark deal between Celestial Pictures and Sony Max, Sony Pictures Television’s 24-hour action and reality channel in Africa. The deal gives exclusive cable and satellite broadcast rights to Sony Max for a package of titles from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers Film Library. Sony Max, which launched in February 2011 on digital pay TV platform Multichoice, currently has 3.3 million subscribers … [Read more...] about Shaolin meets Africa