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Hong Kong s Celestial Pictures is set to roll out its 24-hour Chinese movie ch
stanley cup annel, Celestial Movies, in Malaysia and Brunei on March 3, with launches in other territories around the world to follow over the coming year. The channel will
stanley cup be carried on Malaysian satellite platform Astro, which is majority owned by Celestial s backer, Malaysian media empire Usaha Tegas. Following its launch in Malaysia, the channel will be rolled out in Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Taiwan over the next six months with the US, Europe and Australia to follow within a year. About 30% of the channel s content will be sourced from the 760-title Shaw Brothers library, which Celestial acquired three years ago, while acquisitions will account for the remaining 70%. Among the product Celestial has licensed is a portion of the Golden Harvest library, owned by Warner Bros, which i
stanley italy ncludes around 170 titles produced in the 1990s - several of which star Jackie Chan. We want to make it clear that this isn t a classic movies channel or a Shaw Brothers channel, but a Chinese movie channel, said Celestial CEO William Pfeiffer. Celestial also has output deals with the mainland s two largest studios, Beijing Film Studio and Shanghai Film Studio, and first-run deals with Hong Kong production houses Applause Pictures, EMG and Filmko; Taiwan s Central Motion Picture Corp; Korea s Cinema Service and CJ Entertainment and Japanese studios Shochiku and Toho. The company is also buying individual titles such as Dxez Ascot Elite picks up five titles including Love In The Time Of Cholera
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stanley cup and Barbara Junge s monumental Children Of Golzow chronicle, ...they re living happily ever after. The Children
stanley us of Golzow, is one of four world premieres being shown as Special Screenings in this year s Forum programme of the Berlinale.The Junges longest-lasting observation in film history - with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records - was launched in 1961 shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall and has documented changes in the lives of villagers from Golzow in the Oderbruch region over the past 46 years. The final instalment portrays four of the children who started school in 1961 and are still living in the village.The section s other world premieres are of Heiko Kalmbach s personal portrait of the star photographer Wolfgang Tillmans in If One Thing Matters - A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans, experimental filmmakers Michael Auder and Andrew Neel s The Feature, and Filipino director Khavn De La Cruz s The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles about the sexual obsessions of a fired engineer.In addition, the Forum will be showing restored versions of Charles Burnett s 1983 film My Brother s Wedding, which was lost for more than two decades, and Kent Mackenzie s 1961 feature The Exiles about the life of Native Americans in the big city, as well as a new print of Dusan Makavejev s subversive classic W.R. - Misterije Organizma from 1971 to tie-in with a master class the veteran director will be giving at this