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Business Wire
23-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
AMTD Movie "A Gilded Game" Exceeded USD36 Million in Box Office in 23 Days
PARIS & NEW YORK & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group ('TGE'), a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital, jointly announced that AMTD's latest release, A Gilded Game (the 'Movie'), continues to garner widespread enthusiasm from audiences. In just 23 days since its launch, the Movie has grossed over RMB263 million and attracted approximately 6.58 million viewers. Among all films currently screening in China, the Movie has recorded the highest average attendance per session over the past nine consecutive days and maintained the highest theatre occupancy rate over the past two days. It experienced counter-trend growth in box office, with its market performance steadily gaining momentum. The Movie's success extends beyond Chinese Mainland, with releases in Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, North America, Australia, and New Zealand etc., where it continues to garner positive reviews and widespread acclaim. AMTD is the production company of the Movie, with Dr. Calvin Choi, founder of AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital, serving as both producer and executive producer. 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 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 AMTD IDEA Group and/or AMTD Digital with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and neither AMTD IDEA Group nor AMTD Digital undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AMTD Movie "A Gilded Game" Exceeded USD36 Million in Box Office in 23 Days
PARIS & NEW YORK & SINGAPORE, May 23, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group ("TGE"), a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital, jointly announced that AMTD's latest release, A Gilded Game (the "Movie"), continues to garner widespread enthusiasm from audiences. In just 23 days since its launch, the Movie has grossed over RMB263 million and attracted approximately 6.58 million viewers. Among all films currently screening in China, the Movie has recorded the highest average attendance per session over the past nine consecutive days and maintained the highest theatre occupancy rate over the past two days. It experienced counter-trend growth in box office, with its market performance steadily gaining momentum. The Movie's success extends beyond Chinese Mainland, with releases in Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, North America, Australia, and New Zealand etc., where it continues to garner positive reviews and widespread acclaim. AMTD is the production company of the Movie, with Dr. Calvin Choi, founder of AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital, serving as both producer and executive producer. 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 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 AMTD IDEA Group and/or AMTD Digital with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and neither AMTD IDEA Group nor AMTD Digital undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. View source version on Contacts For AMTD IDEA Group:IR OfficeAMTD IDEA GroupEMAIL: ir@ For AMTD Digital Inc.:IR OfficeAMTD Digital ir@ 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
IOL News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- IOL News
The Love Letter Exhibition - commemorating 10 years of Movie Snaps
A look inside an installation of the Love Letter exhibition at Michaelis Galleries, UCT. Image: Supplied As South Africa marks 31 years of democracy, the Love Letter exhibition at the UCT Michaelis Galleries speaks in the language of absence and memory, with some of its standout pieces including an over two-metre large apartheid eviction letter and 80kg of keys once kept by families forcibly removed from their homes. Running until May 16, it appears alongside the evocative Movie Snaps photographic exhibition. The Love Letter commemorates the 10-year anniversary of Movie Snaps, the exhibition and documentary film on street photography and forced removals in Cape Town by University of Pretoria Professor Siona O'Connell in 2015. Once a beloved pastime, having your black-and-white portrait taken by Movie Snaps photographers captured everyday elegance on Cape Town's streets from the 1940s to the '70s. The Love Letter invites visitors to revisit those memories through images, installations, and the stories behind them. The project is produced collaboratively by O'Connell and Michaelis Galleries, UCT, curator Jade Nair, with the support of the University of Pretoria, District Six Museum and the Centre for Curating the Archive. 'The Love Letter' exhibition runs until May 16. Image: Supplied Along with the two-metre display, the exhibition features a further selection of eviction letters in display provided by the District Six Museum and the Commission on Restitution Land Rights, as well as period-accurate recreations of outfits worn by people in the Movie Snaps photographs sourced from vintage stores, alongside movie snaps photographs. 'When I joined this project as a project manager ten years ago I'd never heard of Movie Snaps, I didn't know what a Movie Snaps was. Until I saw a few and realised that the photos of my maternal family I had grown up looking at were Movie Snaps. So deeply ingrained are Movie Snaps in family archives across Cape Town that for many, the only photographic record of our forebearers are Movie Snaps. They are glamorous objects - beautiful black and white photographs of stylish people. But they belie a collective trauma, the displacement of forced removals,' said Nair. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Speaking at the opening, UCT, Emerita Professor Linda Ronnie added that South Africa was by no means unique in its history of dispossession, 'this is the story of every person whose land was and is being forcibly taken from them'. 'One of the most brilliant pieces of writing to capture this notion of historical dispossession is from Lebogang Seale and he writes: '[my home] is only a distant nostalgia now, for the land is no longer ours. Today it belongs to the descendants of colonial settlers; strangers who came from far-off places, and claimed it as their own. As in other parts of the country, the claiming of this land was an arbitrary and capricious land grab with no regard for owner's rights and sovereignty. The occupation altered our lives on a scale that is unimaginable.' Like Lebogang Seale and others, Siona O' Connell looks at 'the long reaches of the past'. She reminds us that everyday life continued then and still continues now and that we owe it to ourselves to acknowledge, remember, and talk about those moments (for ourselves and for future generations), even though they hold the potential to conjure up what Dikgang Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice, describes as 'feelings of fresh dispossession' – a haunting, melancholic yet necessary reflection. What can we learn from these past/present experiences? To continue the conversations and to raise issues wherever and in whichever way we can,' said Ronnie. The Love Letter is open to the public, free of charge until May 16 at Upper Gallery, Michaelis Galleries, UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street Gardens, Cape Town. The gallery is open weekdays from 10am to 3pm. Cape Times
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AMTD Movie "A Gilded Game" Leads China's Labour Day Holiday Pre-Sales Box Office
PARIS & NEW YORK & SINGAPORE, April 28, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group, a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital, jointly announced that AMTD's latest movie, A Gilded Game ("Movie"), shines as the front-runner for the Labour Day holiday pre-sales box office in China. This highly anticipated Movie is set to premiere in theaters across mainland China on May 1, 2025, and will debut in Hong Kong on May 8, 2025. Directed by Herman Yau, the Movie boasts a star-studded cast that includes renowned actors Andy Lau, Oho Ou, Ni Ni, and Crystal Huang. This movie reunites Andy Lau and Ni Ni for the second time since their collaboration in AMTD's hit movie "Shock Wave 2" five years ago, which achieved remarkable success with a box office of RMB1.314 billion, making it the highest-grossing New Year Movie in China in 2020. Moreover, the Movie marks the second financial-themed blockbuster presented by AMTD, following its award-winning movie "The Goldfinger" released in 2024. The Movie has successfully topped the opening day pre-sale box office rankings among all films released during the Labour Day holiday in China, with total pre-sale box office exceeding RMB 4.5 million at the time of this announcement. This outstanding performance has garnered significant attention and support from both the industry experts and audiences. Up to now, the Movie has achieved 65,822 screenings on its opening day, capturing a substantial market share among the Labour Day holiday films and solidifying its leading position during this period. The marketing campaign for the Movie has been highly effective, with widespread social media engagement. On Douyin, this Movie topic has reached over 1.7 billion views, ranking amongst top three on the trending chart. AMTD is the production company of the Movie alongside with Universe Entertainment, Maoyan, and Yingming Culture, with Dr. Calvin Choi, founder of AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital serving as the producer. 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 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 AMTD IDEA Group and/or AMTD Digital with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and neither AMTD IDEA Group nor AMTD Digital undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. View source version on Contacts For AMTD IDEA Group: IR OfficeAMTD IDEA GroupEMAIL: ir@ For AMTD Digital Inc.: IR OfficeAMTD Digital ir@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
28-04-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
AMTD Movie 'A Gilded Game' Leads China's Labour Day Holiday Pre-Sales Box Office
PARIS & NEW YORK & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMTD Group Inc. ("AMTD" or the "Group"), alongside The Generation Essentials Group, a subsidiary of the Group under AMTD Digital, jointly announced that AMTD's latest movie, A Gilded Game ('Movie'), shines as the front-runner for the Labour Day holiday pre-sales box office in China. This highly anticipated Movie is set to premiere in theaters across mainland China on May 1, 2025, and will debut in Hong Kong on May 8, 2025. Directed by Herman Yau, the Movie boasts a star-studded cast that includes renowned actors Andy Lau, Oho Ou, Ni Ni, and Crystal Huang. This movie reunites Andy Lau and Ni Ni for the second time since their collaboration in AMTD's hit movie "Shock Wave 2" five years ago, which achieved remarkable success with a box office of RMB1.314 billion, making it the highest-grossing New Year Movie in China in 2020. Moreover, the Movie marks the second financial-themed blockbuster presented by AMTD, following its award-winning movie "The Goldfinger" released in 2024. The Movie has successfully topped the opening day pre-sale box office rankings among all films released during the Labour Day holiday in China, with total pre-sale box office exceeding RMB 4.5 million at the time of this announcement. This outstanding performance has garnered significant attention and support from both the industry experts and audiences. Up to now, the Movie has achieved 65,822 screenings on its opening day, capturing a substantial market share among the Labour Day holiday films and solidifying its leading position during this period. The marketing campaign for the Movie has been highly effective, with widespread social media engagement. On Douyin, this Movie topic has reached over 1.7 billion views, ranking amongst top three on the trending chart. AMTD is the production company of the Movie alongside with Universe Entertainment, Maoyan, and Yingming Culture, with Dr. Calvin Choi, founder of AMTD IDEA Group and AMTD Digital serving as the producer. 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 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 AMTD IDEA Group and/or AMTD Digital with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and neither AMTD IDEA Group nor AMTD Digital undertakes any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
