Celestial Pictures currently produces and acquires hundreds of hours of television programmes each year, including television dramas, children's programmes, animation and documentaries.
Celestial plans to expand its activities in new Chinese film content, including remakes of Shaws films that will refresh its large film library and serve as a continuous source of content for its TV networks. In China, Celestial is also producing new big-budget costume-drama television series for broadcast in China and throughout Asia.
Journey to the West
HD Production
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2011
Duration: 60 episodes x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Wu Yue、Nie Yuan、Tsui Kam Kong、Cáng Jīn Shēng
Plot Outline:
With the production budget as high as 130 million Chinese yuan, the 60 episodes teleplay Journey to the West is acclaimed to be the No.1 Blockbuster Chinese TV series ever produced. To advance the special effects, costume make ups, set piece and props in this TV series, producer Zhang Ji Zhong found its first collaboration with the best visual effect crew in Hollywood - the award-winning crew from The Lord of The Rings.
The story is based on one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature “Xi You Ji” (Journey to the West), telling the mythologized legends around the Buddhist monk Tripitaka (starring Nie Yuan)'s pilgrimage to India (known as the Western Regions) during the Tang dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist religious texts called sutras. The emperor of Tang Dynasty gives this task to the monk. Tripitaka’s three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Monkey King (starring Wu Yue), Pigsy (starring Cang Jin Sheng) and Sandy (starring Elvis Tsui), they have agreed to help Tripitaka as atonement for their past sins.
Along the journey, they have to overcome a series of difficulties and sufferings; and fight against numerous fierce monsters and demons. In order to complete the pursuit of pure and majestic sutras, they have to face 81 tribulations, including but not limited to Monkey King wreaks havoc in the Palace of Heaven, three battles with White Bone Demon, tame the Holy Baby King, falling in the Spider Silk Cave accidentally and extinguish the Flaming Mountain, etc.
Fall In Love With Anchor Beauty
Genre: An Inspirational Drama
Year of Release: 2010
Duration: 30 episodes x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Yang Jin-hua, Zhu Dan, Zhang He, Cai Lin, Bowie Lam
Plot Outline:
After graduation, friends Zheng-nan and Dan-ping take up jobs as news-anchor trainees in the same television station. Soon, both become new anchors and so starts the struggle of ambition and betrayal between them, culminating when Yi-park(Zhang He), a news producer and the love of Zheng-nan, falls for Dan-ping and marrying her. As the plot progresses, unbeknownst to each, Dan-ping and Zheng-nan are in fact biological sisters. When the Wenchuan earthquake strikes, Zheng-nan replaces the pregnant Dan-ping to cover the disaster on site. Yi Park dies in the disaster zone and Dan-ping becomes so grief-stricken that she suffers a miscarriage. Meanwhile, Zheng-nan loses her voice due to great mental stress and physical exertion, Dan-ping, though seriously ill, re-surfaces in the studio to take her place…
The Tale of the Royal Seamstress
HD Production
Genre: An Inspirational Costume Drama
Year of Release: 2010
Duration:36 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Chang Chun-ning, Yuan Hong, Lau Shi-shi, Siu Jung-nam, Chan Sui-man, Lau Chung-yan
Plot Outline:
This is the inspirational story of Huang Dao-po, the mother of Chinese textile. Striving in the realm of adversity throughout her early life, she manages to learn the technique of planting cotton, making cotton yarn and the art of weaving yarn into textile. Throughout it all, she displays strength of character in the face of tragedy and destruction. The story ends with her success in manufacturing textile and her triumplant return to her home village.
Madam Justice Bao
HD Production
Genre:Costume detective comedy
Year of Release: 2010
Duration:34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Benny Chan, Teresa Lee, Chen Wei Min, Xie Li Jin, Chan Chi Pang, Zhang Ling Zi
Plot Outline:
This drama describes the hilarious stories about a group of female detectives highlighting Bao San-gu, a descendant of Bao Qing-tian, in tackling a spate of tricky cases in a far-flung Chinese small town during the reign of Yongle in Ming Dynasty.
My Sassy Wife – Xu Xiaomei
HD Production
Genre:Costume Comedy
Year of Release: 2010
Duration:34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Roger Kwok, Dong Xuan, Marco Ngai, Liu Ting Yu, Kingdom Yuen, Log Dak Wua and
Timothy Zao
Plot Outline:
This drama describes an incomparable talented and resourceful Xu Xiaomei who intends grooming Qin Shao-you, her husband, as a capable people inadvertently drives him into seeing other women. It is not until Xiaomei gets over a series of setbacks does she come to realize that mutual respect, consideration, tolerance and fidelity are the key elements for a long and lasting relationship of a couple.
Ghost Catcher – Legend of Beauty
HD Production
Genre:Costume Fantasy
Year of Release: 2010
Duration:36 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Au Yang Zhen Hua Bobby, Zeng Bo Yi, Huo Si Yan
Plot Outline:
This drama is written on the stories of traditional Chinese morality. It comprises of five world shaking love stories and the special treatment of Zhong Kui dealing cases. It makes use of the world famous legends as the beginning, mixes modern view of love, uses the past to mock the present, plus crazy imagination and subversive thinking.
Ah Xi
HD Production
Genre:Costume detective comedy
Year of Release: 2009
Duration:24 x 47 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Michelle Yim, Li li Qun, Ren Zhong
Plot Outline:
Ah Xi(Ren Zhong) is a mildly mentally handicapped youngster who is 20 years old but gets an IQ of a mental age of 9 years old. Ah Ping (Michelle Yim) who is Ah Xi’s mother, she brought up her son on her own. She has concealed Ah Xi the fact which is abandoned by his father. It was supposed Ah Xi could have led a happy and serene life under the caring of his mother. However, an accidental stray from his mother one day has abruptly altered the whole course of his life.
Ah Xi roamed about to a strange small town, and met a dumb old man who made his living at driving tricycle. He was eccentric, unsociable, testy and an unapproachable and was nicknamed “Old Bitter Melon” (Li li Qun). During Ah Xi’s searching for mother, two romances happened in his life.
It was not until a reunion with his mother that Ah Xi has to face another permanent separation on life-and-death.
Chinese Paladin III
HD Production
Genre:Costume Fantasy
Year of Release: 2009
Duration:37 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Hu Ge, Yang Mi, Liu Shi-shi, Wallace Huo, Tiffany Tang
Plot Outline:
Adapted from the renowned online game 'Chinese Paladin'', Chinese Paladin III reset the rules for the Chinese TV Drama industry with its the perfect combination of advance visual excitement and richest storyline. It is a story about memory and forgetting. It is a story about being lost and awakening. It is also a story about insistence and release.
Let's Dance
HD Production
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Year of Release: 2009
Duration:34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Ming Dao, Joe Chen Qiao-en, Zhang Mo, Dai Fei Fei
Plot Outline:
Let's Dance is a romantic and energetic love comedy in Taiwan-style. It is a story about love in family, love between man and woman, and love between siblings. All characters in the film have unique background and different experience, just as youth nowadays whose dream conflicted with reality, whose life composed of sensibility and pulse action.
At the same time, elements of elegant dancing and fashionable music are included. Korean superstar Rain's dance teacher is invited to work with Joe Chen Qiao-en and design a series of excellent dancing performance for her, which gives audiences a really fresh feeling.
The Book and the Sword
Genre: Costume Action
Year of Release: 2008
Duration:40 x 45 mins episodes
Language:Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Adam Cheng, Niki Chow, Qiao Zhenyu, Leung Ka-yan, Yuen Chow
Plot Outline:
The Fourth Brother of Red Flower Society, Wan Tailai, is caught by the imperial escort agency. To rescue Wan Tailai, the heroes of Red Flower Society ambush the escort cavalries and meet a tribe who intends to retrieve their sacred object. Chen Jialuo thus meets Huo Qingtong, a daughter of the tribe leader. The two admire each other. Overcoming the obstacles with Huo Qingtong, Chen Jialuo at last retrieves the sacred object for her.
Chen Jialuo rushes to Xijiang alone in order to send a letter and meets a girl called Prince Fragrance. Not knowing that she is the younger sister of Huo Qingtong, Chen Jialuo is attracted by her beauty, while Princess Fragrance falls in love with him at the same time. The two hurry to the tribe at the moment when the messengers of General Ding Zhao Wei, who will lead a Manchu army to crack down the west tribe, arrive to send a written challenge to war. Huo Qingtong finally directs her troops to heavily defeat the Manchu army. Princess Fragrance is caught and Qianlong wants to have her, but she refuses to give in. Princess Fragrance later discovers that Qianlong does not want to keep his own promise to overturn the Qing dynasty. She kills herself to warn Chen Jialuo.
Huo Qingtong is about to stab the emperor to death in order to avenge his father, brother, sister and the people of her tribe. At that very moment, the bodyguard of Qianlong, You De, emerges and holds a baby as the hostage. The heroes have no choice but to give up the idea of assassinating Qianlong. Instead, they break out of the palace with the illegitimate son of Qianlong, Fu Kangan, in their grasp, forcing the emperor to stop persecuting the Red Flower Society.
Eagle Shooting Heroes
Genre: Costume Action
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 50 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Ariel Lin, Hu Ge, Antony wong, Kathy Chau
Plot Outline:
Two daggers engraved with the names "Guo Jing" and "Yang Kang" unfolding the stories of two teenagers whose parents, before they are born, have made them sworn brothers
Empress Feng of the Northern "Wei" Dynasty
HD Production
Genre: Period drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 42 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Wu Chien Lien, Shen Au Jun, Wang Qing Xiang, Zhang Tie Lin, Li Guang Jie
Plot Outline:
An account of the time, and the first drama on China's first uncrowned empress, when her power, strength of character and diplomacy directly influenced four generations of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
City In Tears
HD Production
Genre: Romance
Year of Release: Late 2008
Duration: 20 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Qin Lan, Huo Jianhua
Plot Outline:
A poor, pretty and obstinate girl and the playful son of a rich family fall in love with each other. Can their true love overcome the ups and downs of fate, poverty, sickness, death and lies?
Survival
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Ron Wu Chek Hei, Yao Qian Yu
Plot Outline:
At the time of national calamity, all family members in Xia's Armed Escort Company are slaughtered by the Japanese army. Xia Xiaoxue (Yao Wuyu), at the age of 18, is at a loss while facing the misfortune. At a critical moment she is saved by a mysterious woman named "Big Sister". While fleeing from the Japanese soldiers, she meets an aspiring young man, Tang Wensheng (Ng Cheuk-hei). Overcoming difficulties together, Xiaoxue and Wensheng feel a faint feeling of love developing between them. Yet the love bears no fruit as they are suddenly separated. The two are sent to two extremely different places: Xiaoxue goes to the headquarter of revolution with "Big Sister". On the other hand, Wensheng, with the Three People's Principles deep-seeded in his mind has prejudice against the Communists, and is thus led by his uncle Tang Dinggan into the military spy camp of the Nationalist Party. Mei Yan, a female student in the camp, once a prostitute, is deeply attracted by Wensheng. During a mission to crack down the traitors, Wensheng and Xiaoxue are captured by the Japanese army and risked being executed via live firing. Wensheng, at his last gasp, pushes protected Xiaoxue and got her to excape while he faces the surrounding enemies alone. Xiaoxue, believing that Wensheng has died, is overcome with grief. Mei Yan is actually rescued by his longtime admirer, from the jaws of death. Xiaoxue becomes a mature intelligence agent half a year later. When she met Wensheng unexpectedly, she is totally shocked. Having clarified all the misunderstandings, the two embrace with joy and grief. They become a couple and work against the Japanese invasion hand in hand....
Twist Love
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 20 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
William So, Liu Zi , Leo Koo, Miriam Yeung, Edmond Leung, Cheung Yau, He Jiong
Plot Outline:
The story originated from a coastal city in the southern part of China.
Su Jian Kang and Yang Si Man had a happy marriage life. However, Si
Man did not expect that a divorce case arising out of an incident of family
violence could lead to a reunion with Gu Jun Yong, whom she previously
had a short relationship with, and resulted him to re-enter her life. Si
Man's fate was destined to change from that moment. In a divorce lawsuit,
Jun Yong's client, Zheng Yuan Qiu (the defendant), was a highly
reputable figure in the commercial world. Gu hoped he could take the
opportunity to gain a strong foothold in the legal field but did not expect
the prosecutor's lawyer to be Si Man. For a moment, Jun Yong was caught
in a dilemma. Ultimately, Jun Yong decided to take on the case to prove his capability......
Silent Tears
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2006
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Tang Wei, Yao Qian Yu, Tin Hai Rong, Deng Chiu
Plot Outline:
This is a story of a woman's struggle of legendary proportion, of overcoming hardships one after another until the final victory in her hotel business. Zijun transforms from a naïve girl to a mature woman of adversity over a span of 30 years. This story mirrors the stories of many Chinese who strived all their lives, living a whole life of hardship. Zijun succeeds in her career but loses the man she loves in the process. Looking back, she discovers she has lost a great deal for the price of success. However, ultimately, she understands what she should cherish. “Silent Tears” is about the struggles of life, intrigues of business politics, true love, and, above all, the noble soul that never yields.
Beautiful Life
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 37 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Yao Qian Yu, Huang Hai Po, Wang Lin
Plot Outline:
When the five-year-old Yanyang is dumped outside the welfare center by her mother, she is doomed to suffer. At the age of seven, Yanyang knows her mother has already forgotten about her existence when she remarries. This is a heavy blow which makes the little girl determine not to weep again. Her optimism with life is ignited when her mother seeks a reunion but this is soon extinguished on realizing that her mother's true purpose is to ask her to donate one of her kidneys to her sister. Her sorrow is magnified as basic family love seems unattainable and the future looks gloomy …But, being Yanyang, a girl whose determination can be rekindled by trials. She has relied on her smiles which light up the darkness around her. Yanyang not only gives life to her dying sister, but also voluntarily helps her childhood friend, Xu Jianfeng in the affairs of the heart. Ironically, Yanyang brings bliss to the family of her mother, which is on the verge of disintegrating due to lies and the lack of forgiveness. Under Yanyang's influence, family love and warmth are exuded. Yanyang's love also shines on her robust and blunt husband, Yang Wenbang, who is enlightened to understand the real meaning of a woman's tenderness and sacrifice.
Champion
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2009
Duration: 33 x 1 hour episodes
Language: Mandarin
Main Cast:
Huang Chiu, Guok Sun and Ngai Ging Yat
Plot Outline: A drama inspired by China's female volleyball team in the run up to the 2008 Olympics.
Healing Souls
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast: Jessica Xu, Francis Ng, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Wang Yanan, Lau Siu Ming, Lu Jing-jing, Mia Yan
Plot Outline:
Healing Souls is a drama centered on the personal and professional lives of two doctors. Polar opposites, leaders of their field, Huo and You answer their true calling to heal patients. Two young doctors trying to lead a life in a world where on the job can be a matter of life and death makes having personal lives almost impossible.
My Depraved Brother
Genre: Drama
Year of Release: 2008
Duration: 36 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Michael Tao, Wu Xiu Bo, Shu Chang, Jess Zhang, Deric Wan
Plot Outline: Blood Brothers separated at age of nine and six, older brother Tian is raised in China as the adopted son of a wealthy businessman, while younger brother Fei is raised in Hong Kong as the adopted child of a failed businessman.
When each discovers the other's existence, the past catches up with the brothers and plunges them into a web of pain and conflicts.
Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain
Genre:Costume Action
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 40 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Athena Chu, Anthony Wong, Alex Fong Chung Sun, Patrick Tam, Nie Yuan
Plot Outline:
Fox Volant of The Snowy Mountain, based on the work of best-selling Chinese author Louis Cha, explores the concepts of loyalty, greed and lust for power. The story revolves around Fox Volant (also know as Hu Fei) and his guest to avenge his parents' death 20 years prior to the beginning of the story. The circumstances of his parents' murders gradually emerge from a series of Fox Volant's encounters and fights against various parties of martial artists.
The excitement, intrigue and action in these incidents are well dramatized, with one event firmly intertwining with others, developing into a vendetta involving the offspring of several families. Caught in a family feud, Fox Volant has also fallen in love with the daughter of his father's killer. The story ends with a fight between Fox Volant and his sworn enemy.
Men & Legends
Genre: Action
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 32 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Peter Ho, Dylan Guo, Hao Lei
Plot Outline:
Enveloped within the political turmoil in the 1910s, Huo Yuan-jia, the most celebrated kung fu master from the north joins forces with Huang Fei-hong, the most revered martial artist from the south, in the hope to fight against the foreign powers. When both are murdered, their students Zhai and Yan undergo rigorous training to become accomplished artists of both unarmed and armed combats to avenge their masters' deaths.
Thanks for Having Loved Me
Genre: Modern drama
Year of Release: 2007
Duration: 34 x 45 mins episodes
Language: Mandarin & Cantonese
Main Cast:
Vikki Zhao; Tou Chunghua; Zhou Ziwei; Qin Hailu
Plot Outline:
Wei, a magazine editor, just got a new job. In addition to her heavy workload, she has to handle mounting pressure from her mom who is urging her to get married soon, and to take care of her best friend Ji who has returned from abroad to have an abortion. Amid all this, Wei is also pressured to choose between her three suitors, and must make a painful choice.