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TGE Presents the Year's Highly-Anticipated Suspense Thriller Movie: "She's Got No Name"
NEW YORK, PARIS and SINGAPORE, June 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group (NYSE: TGE), a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital (NYSE: HKD), jointly announced that AMTD's newest movie, the highly anticipated suspense thriller film "She's Got No Name" (the "Movie"), is set to be released on June 21. The "She's Got No Name" movie series is produced based on one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in China during the 1945 era. This series will be released in two standalone yet interconnected films, with the first film focused on the murder case investigation and court proceedings, while the second one delved into the final verdict and the key characters' fates. This Movie will take audiences back to 1945, unravelling the secrets of a real-life murder case and vividly portraying a diverse array of characters navigating turbulent times. Directed by Peter Chan, the Movie boasts a top-tier cast including Ziyi Zhang, Eric Wang, Jackson Yee, Ting Mei, Zanilia Zhao, Ray Lei, Mi Yang, Yuchang Peng, Chengpeng Dong, and Xian Li. "She's Got No Name" has been selected to be screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024. The Movie will have its world premiere as the opening film at the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival on June 14 and will be officially released across China on June 21. AMTD is a co-production company, with Dr. Calvin Choi, founder of AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital serving as a co-producer. About The Generation Essentials Group (formerly known as World Media and Entertainment Universal Inc.) The Generation Essentials Group, jointly established by AMTD Group, AMTD IDEA Group (NYSE: AMTD; SGX: HKB) and AMTD Digital Inc. (NYSE: HKD), is headquartered in France and focuses on global strategies and developments in multi-media, entertainment, and cultural affairs worldwide as well as hospitality and VIP services. TGE comprises L'Officiel, The Art Newspaper, movie and entertainment projects. Collectively, TGE is a diversified portfolio of media and entertainment businesses, and a global portfolio of premium properties. About AMTD Group AMTD Group is a conglomerate with a core business portfolio spanning across media and entertainment, education and training, and premium assets and hospitality sectors. About AMTD IDEA Group AMTD IDEA Group (NYSE: AMTD; SGX: HKB) represents a diversified institution and digital solutions group connecting companies and investors with global markets. Its comprehensive one-stop business services plus digital solutions platform addresses different clients' diverse and inter-connected business needs and digital requirements across all phases of their life cycles. AMTD IDEA Group is uniquely positioned as an active super connector between clients, business partners, investee companies, and investors, connecting the East and the West. For more information, please visit or follow us on X (formerly known as "Twitter") at @AMTDGroup. About AMTD Digital Inc. AMTD Digital Inc. (NYSE: HKD) is a comprehensive digital solutions platform headquartered in France. Its one-stop digital solutions platform operates key business lines including digital media, content and marketing services, investments as well as hospitality and VIP services. For AMTD Digital's announcements, please visit Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "aims," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "likely to," and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the beliefs, plans, and expectations of TGE, AMTD IDEA Group and/or AMTD Digital, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the filings of TGE, AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and none of TGE, AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. For AMTD IDEA Group:IR OfficeAMTD IDEA GroupEMAIL: ir@ For AMTD Digital Inc.:IR OfficeAMTD Digital ir@ For The Generation Essentials Group:IR OfficeThe Generation Essentials GroupEMAIL: tge@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE AMTD IDEA Group; AMTD Digital; The Generation Essentials Group Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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Peter Chan's Noir Drama ‘She's Got No Name' Debuts in Shanghai After 'Experimental' Two-Part Overhaul
A mystery has been resolved this week at the Shanghai International Film Festival as Peter Chan's re-worked version of She's Got No Name helped open the event, before going on an almost-immediate limited release on 120 screens spread across this vast acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker's decision to split the film – which made its premiere out of competition at Cannes in 2024 – into two parts had raised eyebrows, as did the news that the first installment would take the marquee billing at China's major annual cinema the end, it all makes the Cannes version's 150-minute running time and twisting narrative arc had prompted questions of the film's commercial potential, the version of She's Got No Name that screened at SIFF comes in at a tight – and tense – 96 minutes that dig deep into the darkness of the real-life tale of an abused woman Zhan-Zhou (played by Zhang Ziyi), charged with the murder of her husband in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai of the 1940s. It was a case that gripped war-torn Shanghai, given the gruesome details of the murder and subsequent dismemberment of the victim, the fact that the victim's head was never found, and the desperate circumstances of poverty and abuse under which it all also provided an ideal platform to showcase a production where Shanghai itself plays a scene-stealing, co-starring role, while its stars were on hand to ramp up the glamour during the festival's opening day after the opening finds Chan being whisked between screenings as the film rolls out across Shanghai before its nationwide opening on June 21. He's in a reflective mood, sipping coffee in between engagements in the back of a people-mover as the rain-soaked city streams past Got No Name's narrative is now split between the aftermath of the murder – Zhan-Zhou's incarceration and trial and the emergence of it all as a cause célèbre – and what's to come in the next film, which introduces new characters (including the down-at-heel lawyer who came to Zhan-Zhou's aid) and the first whispers of feminism in China.'It's a very experimental thing to do, I know,' says Chan of the bold, two-part approach to his Got No Name marks a definite shift in tone and in mood for the 40-year veteran who has never been afraid of jumping genres, from the romance of Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996) to the action of The Warlords (2007), and on to the comedy of American Dreams in China (2013).This first installment is all shadows and noir-steeped depictions of desperate people in desperate times, while Zhang is almost unrecognizable in the lead, playing a character beaten down by fate and by toxic were obviously taken by all involved, but today Chan is content as his vision for the film has been realized, and he talks through the process with The Hollywood we have to start with the decision to turn one film into two. When did this concept first come to you?Last year, we got all the support from the China film authorities to expedite things so a film that wrapped in March could go to Cannes in May, including censorship and everything. It's about a wife murdering her husband, dismembering him. Obviously, there is blood and gore, and even the issue of feminism, which is a hot-button topic in China right now, hotter probably even than in the US. There were a lot of hiccups that could have happened, and they didn't. It was smooth sailing. Except the two-and-a-half-hour version was too short for my vision, and it was also too long for commercial release. So we ended up being neither here nor was the work you decided you had to do? I ended up cutting a four-hour film, which actually lends itself to be a four-part [TV] series, and I thought, 'This is my movie.' Then I took it back here, to production partners Huanxi Medi,a and their thinking was that the first two parts and the second two parts could be put together and it could be two movies. It's a very experimental thing to do, I know. It sounds so unprofessional to say something is experimental when it's at this scale and budget in an industry that is quite advanced, China. But it truly is a very experimental experience, almost surreal to a certain extent. So this is probably one of, if not the most ambitious, production I've ever been was the actual work done on what you had at your disposal? Were there reshoots?No. Last year at Cannes, things like special effects were not done. We simply didn't have time. There were also a few scenes that we initially decided were too sentimental, small details about Ziyi's character that had to be trimmed, even though I thought that made her a little vague. So we could expand on that, and also small details about other characters. There were scenes that had to be shortened in the Cannes version to make the two and a half hours. But now the two films will be three-and-a-half hours with the same material we such a different film for you in terms of tone and mood, especially. How did you approach that change?It's such a dark vision, this first episode. The second is a little bit better because the second is more humanistic and more about relationships, more like my movies, actually. We decided very early on that we wanted to make Shanghai look different from all the TV series that have been shot here. There have been so many TV series shot here, spy movies, everything. So we always thought that we wanted to make it more formalistic in terms of how we place our shots, and we found architecture, art deco, that you could frame it in a more formalistic style, while also exploring expressionism, German expressionism, and its dark shadows. So, it has become one of my more cinematic and stylish movies, which is a good change for me, after 30-odd years of directing. To venture into territories that you are less comfortable with its very did you develop Zhang Zhi's character, who slowly emerges with such strength?Like all my movies, I'm attracted to the story first, and – other than Warlords and American Dreams in China – all of my movies are about strong women. My central characters have always been strong women and weak men, and so it is in this so much of it all hinges on Zhang's performance, which is And she didn't care about what she looked like; she was completely immersed in the movie. Ziyi is so strong, as a character herself, and she's always been like that, in every movie. So we wanted her to be tough in this movie, but she had to end up being tough. She starts being completely weak, vulnerable, and victimized, and futile, and slowly you see that about playing here at SIFF, given that Shanghai plays such a role in the film itself? How has that experience been for you?There is just so much around here. We found a whole block that somehow was untouched from 100 years ago. When I first saw the location, three families were still living there, but now it's empty. There is a policy here now where they have realized that there are so many heritage buildings and they should be preserved. Shanghai was the film capital of China from the 1920s and '30s, and Shanghai is now experiencing a revival of being a cinema hub. I'm sure they're trying the best they can to get a certain attention, a national image for cinema, so where better to showcase a movie completely shot in Shanghai, helped by the Shanghai government to secure all the locations, than here? 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06-06-2025
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"She's Got No Name" unveils first official poster
6 Jun - Two years after the first announcement, Peter Chan's "She's Got No Name" finally unveiled the first official poster for the first part of the movie. The poster reveals the looks of all the cast for the first time, sparking interests of fans who mostly commented that all of the actors seemed unrecognisable and are truly immersed in their characters. This includes lead actress Zhang Ziyi, whose character has scars covering her face; Yang Mi looking dishevelled in her character as a female prisoner, Jackson Yee in shades and equipped with a cane as a blind fortune teller, as well as Zanilia Zhao, looking glamorous as a writer. Fans also couldn't help but notice that both Zanilia and Yang Mi are placed on each side of the poster. The decision seemed to be a way to avoid the fandom of both actresses from arguing on who is the bigger star. Since the film debuted in the non-competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival last year, there has been no further news until it was recently announced as the opening film of the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival. What is noteworthy is that the film has recently been announced to be divided into two parts, the first of which has the Chinese title of "Jiangyuan Lane: Mystery". (Photo Source: Zhang Ziyi Weibo, SINA)
