Star Chinese Movies

Southeast Asia (except for Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand) and Hong Kong (Southeast Asian version)

## Programming

### Language

Cantonese
Mandarin
English (subtitles)

### Picture format

4:3 (1994-2012)
16:9 (2011-present)

## Ownership

### Sister channels

*Southeast Asia:*
Star Chinese Channel
National Geographic
National Geographic Wild
*Taiwan:*
Star Chinese Channel
National Geographic
National Geographic Wild
Star World
Star Movies Gold
Star Movies HD

## History

### Launched

May 1, 1994; 29 years ago (1994-05-01) (Taiwan)

### Closed

September 1, 2023; 4 months ago (2023-09-01)

## Links

### Website

https://www.dng.tw/scm

**Star Chinese Movies** is a Southeast Asian/Taiwanese movie channel owned by Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific.

## History

**Star Chinese Movies** was launched on 1994 during the removal of BBC WSTV Asia from it's offerings on STAR TV, and was only exclusive to Taiwan.

Their movies during the launch was acquired by Star Chinese Channel, which originally launched back in 1991, timesharing with the western version for 2 years, it also aired Western movies at various times.

As of 1996, both English and Chinese contents were split off from the main channel, the Chinese movie channel now focused in Southeast Asia (including Taiwan), it was aired on several markets including Astro (Malaysia and Singala), SKY PerfecTV! (Singala) and more providers.

On February 1998, it changed their logo to match the newest channel STAR News.

On 24th August 1998, STAR Chinese Movies was dropped on Astro (Malaysia) due to business changes by launching Cinemax.

In 2000, STAR Chinese Movies got the rights to offer the output and licensing deal with Media Asia and China Star, and with a similar deal including Emperor Media Group in 2004, containing 80 movie titles from other Hong Kong studios.

In 2003, STAR Chinese Movies was launched on Now TV in Hong Kong. Later, the similar situation occurred in Singapore & Singala (via StarHub Cable TV), and in the Philippines (via SkyCable).

On 15th December 2007, it's sister channel STAR Chinese Movies 2 was launched, this channel never aired on Taiwan due to various reasons, earlier on 3rd they signed a contract with KyLinTV that it will carry the channels along with STAR Chinese Channel and Channel [V] Taiwan.

On 18th May 2012, these channels rebranded, Lumbre and Carbon designed packages for Star Chinese Movies Legend and Star Chinese Movies respectively.

In July 2013, Fox International Channels Asia Pacific had broadcast the new series SCM Cine, a entertainment news show on the Star Chinese Movies channel, airing there on weekends, appearing once in two weeks.

On 1st November 2013, the channel was expanded to more countries including Thailand and Indonesia; GMMZ, MeTV, First Media, Big TV, Skyindo and Parabola Orange TV, after a month, it was available on Aora TV.

On 1st September 2014, it was launched on HyppTV in Malaysia and Singala bringing back the channel in Malaysia after 16 years, the alternatives that also have more Chinese movie content is STAR Chinese Movies Legend and STAR Movies Asia (Singala only).

On 14 June 2023, Star Chinese Movies, along with other five TV channels in Asia including STAR World in Taiwan, STAR Movies Gold and HD in Taiwan, Star Chinese Channel, National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild will close in September, leaving BabyTV as the only Disney-owned TV channel in the Asian market.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fox's Star Chinese Movies Launches Asian Film Slate - The Hollywood Reporter
2. ↑ Star, KyLinTV ink 3-channel deal - The Hollywood Reporter
3. ↑ Fox International and NBCUniversal rebrand channels in Asia | Marketing | Campaign Asia
4. ↑ LUMBRE - STAR CHINESE MOVIE LEGENDS
5. ↑ Star Chinese Movie Channel - CARBON || Motion Graphics
6. ↑ https://variety.com/2013/tv/asia/fox-international-gets-more-local-1200503910/
7. ↑ https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/disney-closing-tv-channels-southeast-asia-korea-1235643667/