Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), formerly Tiger Gate Entertainment, is a diversified media company based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

that operates

pay television Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

entertainment channels in Asia and oversees

Lionsgate Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian-American entertainment company. It was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is currently headquartered ...

distribution rights in

Greater China Greater China is an informal geographical area that shares commercial and cultural ties with the Han Chinese people. The notion of "Greater China" refers to the area that usually encompasses Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in East ...

and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainland ...

. It is a

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co-owned by

Saban Capital Group Saban Capital Group LLC is an American investment firm based in Los Angeles, California focused on media, entertainment, and communications investments. Formed in 2010 by Haim Saban, Saban Capital Group owns Saban Films, part of Univision Comm ...

, Lionsgate and

Celestial Pictures Celestial Pictures is a diversified entertainment company focusing on Asian-language film and television content including production, aggregation, distribution and the operation of TV channels. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the company owns th ...

Overview

Celestial Tiger Entertainment was founded in 2008 as Tiger Gate Entertainment, as a joint venture between private media investment firm

and entertainment company

. Pay television channels Kix and Thrill were later launched in August 2009. Celestial Pictures Limited joined Tiger Gate Entertainment in late 2011 adding the already established Celestial Classic Movies and

Celestial Movies Celestial Movies (天映频道) is an Asian 24-hour Chinese movie channel, which screens films from and shows interviews with movie stars and directors, entertainment news and film award ceremonies. The channel is available in 11 territories acr ...

to the company's channel lineup. Following this partnership, the company was renamed Celestial Tiger Entertainment and the high definition (HD) feed was added to existing channels for territories in Asia. In 2013, cHK was launched in Singapore with Hong Kong celebrities

Bernice Liu Bernice Jan Liu (born January 6, 1979) is a Canadian actress, singer, and commercial model based in Hong Kong. She has previously held the title Miss Chinese Vancouver 2000 as well as Miss Chinese International 2001, the latter position bringing ...

Him Law Him Law Tze-yat (born Law Chung-him on 28 August 1984) is a Hong Kong actor currently contracted to TVB. Law began his acting career by starring as supporting characters in several well-known films, most notably in ''Mob Sister'' (2005), whic ...

and

Liu Kai Chi Dick Liu Kai-chi (, 30 September 1953 – 28 March 2021) was a Hong Kong actor, best known for his everyman supporting roles. His career spanned over 40 years, with appearances in over 90 television series and 70 films. He earned eight nomina ...

hosting a media event to promote cHK as a Hong Kong general entertainment channel.

Lionsgate partnership

CTE owns the Shaw Brothers film libraryLionsgate strikes Asian partnership with Saban Capital and Celestial Pictures
Retrieved on July 12, 2013 and leverages a library of film and TV from Lionsgate. In February 2012, YOU On Demand Holdings and Lionsgate announced deal to show a number of Lionsgate films on a Transactional Video On Demand ( TVOD) and Subscription Video On Demand ( SVOD) basis in China. In 2013, CTE sold over 1700 hours of Lionsgate TV series and movies including

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, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and

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franchise to broadcasters and media platforms in southeast Asia and China as part of a regional distribution deal, CTE also expanded its Southeast Asian distribution deal with Lionsgate to cover Japan and Korea and sold a further 700 hours of TV series and feature films in an SVOD deal with MediaCorp’s Toggle digital platform in Singapore.Dope show Weeds to air in Singapore
Retrieved on April 24, 2014

Channels

Celestial Tiger Entertainment operates the following channels: *

- A channel featuring current Asian films and entertainment news ** Available in Malaysia, Brunei, South Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore * Celestial Movies HD - A channel featuring current Asian films and entertainment news in HD. ** Available in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. * Celestial Classic Movies* - Featuring classic Hong Kong Chinese films ** Available in Australia, Myanmar, Taiwan (OTT Only), Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Brunei. *Celestial Movies Pinoy** - Filipino and English dubbed Asian movie channel distributed and marketed by

Viva Communications Viva Communications Inc., formerly known as Viva Entertainment Inc. and simply Viva, is a Philippine media and entertainment company headquartered in Pasig City. It was founded on November 11, 1981, by Vic del Rosario and his sister Tess Cruz. ...

. **Available only in the Philippines via

Cignal TV Cignal TV, Inc. (formerly known as GV Broadcasting System), also known by its legal trading name Mediascape Inc., is a Filipino media and telecommunications firm in the Philippines. A wholly owned subsidiary of the media conglomerate MediaQue ...

Channel 40 SD. * cHK - Local Hong Kong entertainment and showbiz news channel ** Available in Singapore and coming soon to Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei. * CM+ - Featuring the latest blockbusters and exclusive movies from across Asia **Available only in Singapore via

Singtel TV Singtel TV (formerly known as Singtel IPTV and mio TV) is a pay television service provided by Singtel in Singapore. It is transmitted through Singtel's broadband network via an IPTV platform which uses Ericsson Mediaroom (originally develope ...

Channel 571. * Kix* - Action, MMA, TV series,

reality television Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 1 ...

and extreme sportsTiger Gate KIX Into Gear to Thrill Audiences, Launching Two Pan-Asian Action and Horror Channels and Announcing Financial Partners
newswire.ca, Retrieved on July 18, 2012 ** Available in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam. From October 2020, this channel is launched across Africa * Thrill* - Horror, thriller and suspense ** Available in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and coming soon to Malaysia and Brunei. * Miao Mi* - Mandarin Kids Channel. ** Available in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore (OTT Only), Malaysia (OTT Only) * Distributed in the Philippines by

Creative Programs Creative Programs, Inc., also known as CPI, is a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation that operates and distributes pay TV channels and provides pay-per-view services to direct-to-home satellite and cable television providers in the Philippines. Si ...

** Joint Venture with

References

External links

* {{Lionsgate Mass media companies of Hong Kong Mass media companies established in 2008 Joint ventures Lionsgate subsidiaries