No More Bets

No More Bets (2023)

孤注一掷

A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.

Date of release
2023-08-05
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (89)
Runtime
2h 10m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Shen Ao

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Hainan University, Iec Long Firecracker Factory, Avenida do Infante D. Henrique, Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro, and Rua do Almirante Sérgio

No More Bets is a 2023 Chinese crime thriller film directed by Shen Ao and produced by Ning Hao. The film chronicles a story about Chinese people being trafficked overseas to a Southeast Asian country and forced to commit Internet fraud. It features Lay Zhang, Gina Jin, Yong Mei, Wang Chuanjun, Darren Wang, Zhou Ye, and Sunny Sun. The film was released in China in both regular theaters and IMAX on August 8, 2023 and achieved box office success, earning a gross of over $500 million.

Production

At the time of filming, director Shen Ao was a newcomer signed by Ning Hao's Dirty Monkey 72 Transformations Film Project. This was his second feature film, following My Dear Liar in 2019. In 2020, a friend told him 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.

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