Star Chinese Movies

For a TV channel that replaced the STAR Chinese Movies in Chinese mainland in 1998, see Phoenix Movies Channel.

Star Chinese Movies
Country
  • People's Republic of China (Hong Kong SAR China)
  • Republic of China (Taiwan)
Broadcast area
  • Southeast Asia
  • Hong Kong
  • Macau
  • Taiwan
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Mongolia
Headquarters
  • Hong Kong SAR, China
  • Taipei, Taiwan
Programming
Language(s)
Picture formatHDTV 1080i (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerDisney Networks Group Asia Pacific
Sister channelsStar Chinese Channel
History
Launched1 May 1994; 30 years ago (1994-05-01) (Taiwan)
1 June 1996; 28 years ago (1996-06-01) (Malaysia, Astro) (First incarnation)
Closed
  • 31 August 1997; 27 years ago (1997-08-31) (Malaysia, Astro) (First incarnation))
  • 28 August 1998; 26 years ago (1998-08-28) (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China and Macau (First incarnation))
  • 30 September 2021; 3 years ago (2021-09-30) (Malaysia, Astro) (Second incarnation))
  • 30 September 2023; 13 months ago (2023-09-30) (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Macau (Second incarnation))
  • 31 December 2023; 10 months ago (2023-12-31) (Taiwan)
Replaced byPhoenix Movies Channel (Southeast Asia and Mainland China)
Catchplay Movie Channel (Taiwan)
Astro AEC (Malaysia, Astro)
Former namesStar Mandarin Movies (1 May 1994–31 March 1996)

Star Chinese Movies (Chinese: 衛視電影台) was a Chinese language pay television channel owned by Disney Networks Group Pacific Ltd. It featured Chinese films.

The channel mainly broadcast Chinese-language films (including Chinese films, Cantonese films, Taiwanese films, Singaporean films, and Malaysian films), as well as bilingual Japanese films, Japanese animations (strip TV series and theatrical versions), Korean films, Thai films, etc., and digitally restored some Hong Kong action films. It was known as the most widely distributed Chinese-language entertainment channel.[1]

On April 29, 2017, Star Chinese Movies provided bilingual services, and most of the movies were broadcast in Mandarin and original sound simultaneously.

In addition, they also obtained the pay TV broadcasting rights of the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards for Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia (except Singapore and Malaysia, in which sold to their local broadcaster).

  1. ^ Middleton, Richard (1 November 2013). "FIC adds SCM to Thailand, Indonesia". C21Media. Retrieved 8 July 2023.