| Cinecanal | |
| Launch Date: | (Brazil) |
| Picture Format: | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Language: | Spanish Portuguese (only in Brazil) English (as an optional audio track) |
| Area: | Latin America |
| Headquarters: | Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Mexico Peru |
| Website: | (Hispanic Latin America, now closed) |
Cinecanal is a Latin American pan-regional cable television channel launched on April 1, 1993. It is owned by a group of Hollywood studios and Latin American cable companies. It is owned by the Fox Networks Group, a subsidiary of Disney International Operations, which is itself a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
The channel is dedicated to films. It began on 1 April 1993.
On November 27, 2020, Disney announced that it would rename the Fox channels in Latin America to Star on 22 February 2021. This change will not affect FX, National Geographic, FXM, Cinecanal or Fox Sports Channels.[1]
In early April 2022, Cinecanal was launched in Brazil, as a replacement for Star Life, which shut down across the region.[2]