No More Bets

No More Bets Movie Details:

Traditional Chinese	孤注一擲
Simplified Chinese	孤注一掷
Literal meaning	To Bet All In
Jyutping	gu1 zyu3 jat1 zaak6
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Genre	Comedy, Drama
Release date	August 8, 2023 (China)
Running time	2hr 10min
Starring	Lay Zhang Gina Jin Yong Mei Eric Wang
Directed by	Shen Ao
Written by	Shen Ao Zhang Yifan Xu Luyang
Produced by	Ning Hao
Cinematography by	Wenqiang He Tianxing Wang
Production Company	Dirty Monkeys Bad Monkey(Shanghai) Culture Communication Ltd. Shanghai Ticketmaster Film&TV Culture Co., Ltd. China Film Corporation Beijing Shanglion Culture Communication Co.

No More Bets Movie Cast & Characters:

• Lay Zhang as Pan Sheng, a programmer trapped in the fraud factory
• Gina Jin as Liang Anna, a model trapped as a croupier in the fraud factory
• Yong Mei as Zhao Dongran, a Chinese police officer
• Eric Wang as Lu Bingkun, the manager of the fraud factory
• Darren Wang as Gu Tianzhi, a stranger defrauded by Pan and Liang
• Zhou Ye as Song Yu, the girlfriend of Gu
• Sunny Sun as An Juncai, the second hand of Lu

Storyline:

Programmer Pan Sheng and model Liang Anna were lured overseas by a supposed high-paying job. However, it turned out that the promised employment was a slave camp-like fraud factory. Being imprisoned and abused by their handler, they are forced to commit cyber fraud on online victims. Through their actions, a stranger Gu Tianzhi got addicted to online gambling. After losing all his savings, Gu attempts suicide by jumping off a building. Gu’s girlfriend called the police. Police Zhao Dongran started investigations and eventually cracked down on the syndicate.

Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:

Worldwide Collection

$540.5 million

About No More Bets Movie:

No More Bets (Chinese: 孤注一掷; pinyin: Gū Zhù Yī Zhì) is a Chinese crime thriller film directed by Shen Ao and produced by Ning Hao. The film chronicles a story about persons being trafficked overseas and forced to commit Internet fraud. It features Lay Zhang, Gina Jin, Yong Mei, and Eric Wang.

Director Shen Ao is a newcomer signed by Ning Hao’s Dirty Monkey 72 Transformations Film Project. This is his second feature film, following My Dear Liar in 2019.

In 2020, a friend told him about a suicide case due to cyber fraud and gambling. He decided to turn it into a crime film.

Before filming, the director team, with the support of the police and the anti-fraud center, collected overseas online fraud cases in the past three years. The materials including pictures, texts, audio, and videos, reached 1TB hardware size. The script writing took one year and a half. Tens of thousands of cases had been analyzed and distilled.

In June 2021, the Dirty Monkey studio revealed the film and its cast, featuring Lay Zhang and Gina Jin.

The film began test screening on Aug 5, 2023, and scheduled the general release on Aug 11, 2023. It quickly became a box office hit in China. The film then changed its general release date to Aug 8, 2023.

By August 8, 2023, three days after the test screening, its box office gross was $69.3 million. This makes it the highest test screening gross in Chinese film history.

On the opening weekend after general release, the film earned $88 million gross, making it the No.1 box office in the world on that weekend.

Affected by the scene in which members of a subtitle group accepted gambling advertisements in the film, on August 14, 2023, one of the earliest subtitle groups in China, the Eden subtitle group, announced its disbandment. However, Zhang Wenbo, the CEO of Fang Bole Marketing, which promoted the film, clarified that the plot in question aimed to show a rational and firm attitude of the members of the subtitle team to “oppose uncertain information and suspected misleading information”.

The film began test screening on August 5, 2023, and scheduled the general release on August 11, 2023. It quickly became a box office hit in China. The film then changed its general release date to August 8, 2023.