Star Movies (Satellite Television Asia Region) is an Asian movie channel owned by Fox Networks Group and STAR TV, subsidiaries of 21st Century Fox. Star Movies now has been rebranded to Fox Movies Premium on 1 January 2012 and Fox Movies in the Philippines on 10 June 2017, therefore affecting its broadcast areas, except in India, China, Vietnam, Middle East, and Taiwan
Star Movies was launched on 21 May 1996[citation needed], replacing BBC World when it was removed from STAR TV because of political reasons. At that time, it screened both Hollywood and Chinese movies and catered to a pan-Asian audience split into two stations: Star Movies (an English movie channel) and Star Chinese Movies (a Hong Kong Cantonese and Mandarin (Taiwan & SE Asia) movie channel.