THE LARGEST BOUQUET OF PAN ASIAN CHANNELS DEDICATED TO ASIAN ENTERTAINMENT

Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) is a leading independent media company dedicated to entertaining audiences in Asia and beyond. The company creates and distributes branded pay television channels and digital services targeted at Asian consumers.

CTE operates a powerful bouquet of distinct pay television services including: CELESTIAL MOVIES, the premium first-run Chinese movie channel in Asia and beyond; CCM, one of the most-widely distributed Chinese movie channels in the world with an unparalleled array of Chinese movie masterpieces; CM+, a channel featuring the latest Blockbusters and exclusive movies from across Asia in Singapore; KIX, the ultimate destination for Asian action entertainment; MIAO MI, the Mandarin edutainment channel created for preschool kids across Asia; and THRILL, Asia's first regional horror, thriller and suspense movie channel.  All of CTE’s channel brands are available as linear, on-demand and over-the-top services.  CTE also produces original production for its bouquet of channels.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, CTE’s majority shareholders are Saban Capital Group, a leading private investment firm specializing in the media, entertainment and communications industries; Celestial Pictures, a diversified Asian entertainment company owned by Astro Overseas Limited; and Lionsgate, the world’s largest independent filmed entertainment studio.

The Tiger Team

  • Ofanny Choi

    Chief Executive Officer

    Ofanny Choi

    Chief Executive Officer

    Ofanny has over 30 years of experience and expertise in launching and operating channels in Asia, especially in the Chinese content space given her long-standing relationships with the top Hong Kong & Mainland Chinese studios and producers. She has been with CTE since its inception and has taken on many leadership roles over the years. She currently heads the company.

    Email:
    ofanny.choi@celestialtiger.com

    Contact Number: +852 2239 6168

  • KC Hui

    Vice President, Finance

    KC Hui

    Vice President, Finance

    KC has over 20 years of experience in finance across a multitude of industries. He has been with CTE since its establishment, and currently oversees finance, legal and IT in the company.

    Email:
    kc.hui@celestialtiger.com

    Contact Number: +852 2239 6038

  • Annie Chan

    Vice President, Sales & Business Development

    Annie Chan

    Vice President, Sales & Business Development

    Annie has over 20 years of experience in telco/media industries in Asia & the UK. At CTE, she is responsible for affiliate sales, advertising sales and business development, expanding the network’s TV & digital distribution across Asia and Africa.

    Email:
    annie.chan@celestialtiger.com

    Contact Number: +852 2239 6028

  • Annie Lim

    Executive Director, Sales and Marketing

    Annie Lim

    Executive Director, Sales and Marketing

    Annie is a media veteran with over 20 years of experience across Asia’s sports and entertainment portfolios. At CTE, she is responsible for affiliate sales, advertising sales and marketing, including PR & Communications. She is currently based in Singapore.

    Email:
    annie.lim@celestialtiger.com

    Contact Number: +852 2239 6115

  • Janice Lam

    Executive Director, Programming & Acquisitions

    Janice Lam

    Executive Director, Programming & Acquisitions

    Janice is a veteran executive with over 20 years of experience in Asia’s Pay TV and OTT industry, and currently heads and manages all pay linear channels, on demand and OTT services at CTE. Her responsibilities include overseeing all content acquisitions, curation, programming and promotional strategies across CTE’s multiple media services. She also leads long-form original productions.

    Email:
    janice.lam@celestialtiger.com

    Contact Number: +852 2239 6022

The shareholders

SABAN CAPITAL GROUP

SABAN CAPITAL GROUP (SCG) is a leading private investment firm based in Los Angeles specializing in the media, entertainment, and communication industries. 

SCG was established by Haim Saban, co-founder of Fox Family Worldwide, a global television broadcasting, production, distribution and merchandising company owned in partnership with Rupert Murdoch and The News Corporation, following its sale to The Walt Disney Company in October 2001. The firm currently makes both controlling and minority investments in public and private companies and takes an active role in its portfolio companies. SCG's current private equity investments include: Univision (the premier Spanish-language media company in the US); Celestial Tiger Entertainment (a venture with Lionsgate and Astro, Malaysia’s largest pay TV platform, to launch and operate new branded pay television channels across Asia); Taomee (China's leading children's online entertainment company); MNC (Indonesia's largest and only vertically-integrated media company); Sky Vision (Indonesia’s largest Pay TV platform) and Partner Communications (a leading telecommunications company in Israel). Saban Brands LLC, an affiliate of SCG, was formed in 2010 to acquire, manage and license entertainment properties and consumer brands across media and consumer platforms globally, and currently holds the rights to Power Rangers and Paul Frank Industries in its portfolio. With offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, SCG actively manages a globally diversified portfolio of investments across public equities, credit, alternative investments, and real property assets. 

For more information, please visit www.saban.com

CELESTIAL PICTURES LIMITED

CELESTIAL PICTURES LIMITED (Celestial Pictures) is a diversified entertainment company bringing the best in Asian entertainment to the world. The company focuses on film and television content origination, aggregation and worldwide distribution.

Celestial Pictures owns the Shaw Brothers library, the world's largest Chinese film collection, with over 760 feature films originally released over a fifty year period. The library has inspired countless filmmakers with its vast pool of classics including THE FIVE VENOMS, HEX, THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN, ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, KING BOXER and THE FLYING GUILLOTINE. These award-winning films have been digitally restored frame-by-frame for global distribution. The company has also been active in producing new film content, both originals and remakes based on the Shaw Brothers library films. Recent releases include PERHAPS LOVE, MY KINGDOM and CONTROL.

Celestial Pictures has a substantial investment in Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE), a venture with Saban Capital Group and Lionsgate. It operates branded pay television channels and produces and distributes content for Asian audiences. CTE's channel bouquet includes CELESTIAL MOVIES, CCM, CM+, KIX, MIAO MI and THRILL, with a footprint that spans Asia and Africa.

Headquartered in Hong Kong, Celestial Pictures is owned by Astro Overseas Limited.

For more information, please visit www.celestialpictures.com

LIONSGATE

LIONSGATE is a leading global entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel platforms and international distribution and sales. Led by The Hunger Games and Twilight young adult franchises, emerging young adult brands like Divergent and Ender's Game and a string of recent box office successes including Now You See Me, the sleeper hit of summer 2013, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Tyler Perry's Temptation and Warm Bodies, the Company is poised to generate over $1 billion at the domestic box office and another $1 billion internationally for the second year in a row. 

Lionsgate's television business includes 28 shows on 20 different networks, including such iconic brands as Mad Men, Weeds and Nurse Jackie and emerging hits such as Anger Management, Nashville and Orange is the New Black. Continued growth of Lionsgate's television business will be fueled by diversification into TV series built around the Company's unique 10+90 model, original content for digital platforms, selective forays into broadcast network series and a growing presence in nonfiction programming. 

Lionsgate's motion picture and television library includes more than 15,000 titles, and its $1 billion-a-year home entertainment business is a leader in digital, on demand and packaged media. Lionsgate has a global infrastructure of output deals covering 80% of the world's movie-going population outside China and India, self-distribution of filmed entertainment in the UK through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lionsgate UK, a joint venture with IDC serving growth markets in Latin America and a stake in the Celestial Tiger Entertainment platform serving the Asian market. 

For more information, please visit www.lionsgate.com