Celestial Pictures

Celestial Pictures, privately owned and headquartered in Hong Kong, operates as a subsidiary of Astro Malaysia Holdings. Founded in 2000, the company has approximately 30 employees and specializes in entertainment content rights, focusing on the preservation, restoration, and global distribution of Asian media properties. Celestial Pictures owns and manages the Shaw Brothers Film Library, a collection of over 760 classic Hong Kong films spanning the 1950s to the 1990s, including martial arts and kung fu cinema properties such as The One-Armed Swordsman, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and Five Deadly Venoms.