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Kadokawa buys Celestial package |
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Written by Patrick Frater
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
HONG KONG Kadokawa Entertainment has secured a deal with Hong Kong library operation Celestial Pictures to handle a package of Celestial's Shaw Bros. movies in Japan. Shaw library contains 760 classic movies made between the 1950s and 1990s, many of which have been remastered for re-release and broadcast. Deal spans distribution of horror, fantasy, action and martial arts pics across home entertainment, free- and pay-TV, video-on-demand and mobile. Celestial declined to disclose number of titles involved in the Kadokawa package. And it was unable to explain how deal would impact its relationship with King Records which has a video-only distribution agreement in Japan that remains in force. Separately, Celestial has expanded a deal with MGM Channel Central Europe covering the Shaw library's martial arts titles on pay-TV in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. New deal is a continuation of the three year partnership that originated from the success of MGM Channel Germany's Kung Fu Classics nights.Key titles to be distributed include martial-arts renowned masterpieces such as Chang Cheh's "The Five Venoms," Hu King-chun's "Come Drink With Me," and Liu Chia-liang's "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin."
Hong Kong-based Celestial is a subsidiary of Malaysian satellite broadcaster Astro All Asia Networks.
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