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| Country | Singapore |
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| Broadcast area | Southeast Asia Japan South Korea China Hong Kong Macau Taiwan |
| Network | HBO Asia |
| Headquarters | Singapore (main) Mumbai |
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| Language(s) | English (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines) Mandarin (Singapore, Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau) Thai (Thailand) Korean (Korea) Japanese (Japan) Filipino (Philippines) Indonesian (Indonesia) Malay (Malaysia) Vietnamese (Vietnam) |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 anamorphic widescreenorletterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | HBO Asia Pte Ltd (Warner Bros. Discovery International) (Warner Bros. Discovery) |
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| History | |
| Launched | November 15, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-11-15) |
| Replaced | FOX Action Movies (Cignal TV channel space) |
| Former names | Max (29 March 2009– 30 September 2012) |
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| Website | www |
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| Nexmedia (Indonesia) | Channel 503 |
Cinemax Asia is a pan-Asian pay television channel as a part of the HBO Asia network. It features action, science-fiction, thriller, and adult comedy films.[1] Cinemax Asia is headquartered in Warner Bros. Discovery Asia office in Singapore.
Cinemax Asia (which is the secondary channel of HBO Asia) was launched in 15 November 1996, it is a 24-hour movie channel which features movies in horror, suspense, thriller and action. Cinemax Asia features Thriller Cinemax on Thursday, Action Cinemax on Friday while Cinemax Superstars on weekend.
InMalaysia, Cinemax Asia was launched on Astro on channel 18 on April 23, 1998 at 7.45 pm replacing the ill-fated MGM Gold channel on April 6, 1998.
In March 2009, Cinemax Asia was rebranded as "Max Asia" to appeal to male viewers. Max Asia's logo has been redesigned as well in line with the rebranding. Under registered permission HBO Network, Max Asia became an American movies channel.[clarification needed][2][3][4][5]
On October 1, 2012, Max Asia reverted back to Cinemax Asia. Cinemax Asia has a yellow background color, but was replaced by a red color in 2016 with a more bolder approach to match its original American counterpart, with new action and thriller movies.
During October 2021, Cinemax Asia featured horror films in a Maximum Horror promotion.[6]
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