Easy Money (2010 film)

Easy Money
DVD cover
Directed byDaniel Espinosa
Screenplay byMaria Karlsson
Story byDaniel Espinosa
Abdullahi Ahmed Sattarvandi
Fredrik Wikström
Based onEasy Money
by Jens Lapidus
Produced byFredrik Wikström
Starring
CinematographyAril Wretblad
Edited byTheis Schmidt
Music byJon Ekstrand
Production
company
Tre Vänner Produktion AB
Distributed byNordisk Film
Release date
  • 15 January 2010 (2010-01-15)
Running time
124 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguagesSwedish, Spanish, Serbian
BudgetSEK 30 million[1]
Box officeSEK 59.1 million[2]

Easy Money (Swedish: Snabba cash)[3] is a Swedish crime thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa (in his directorial debut) that was released on 15 January 2010. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Jens Lapidus.[4] Joel Kinnaman stars in the lead role of Johan "JW" Westlund, a rather poor man living a double life in the upper class areas of Stockholm. After meeting a wealthy girl, he is enticed into the world of organized crime and begins to sell cocaine to afford his expensive lifestyle. Easy Money was well received by critics and was a hit at the box office.

Two sequels to the film have been made: Easy Money II (2012) and Easy Money III (2013). In 2010, Warner Bros. announced their plans for an American remake of Easy Money starring Zac Efron,[5] but the project was shelved.[6] In 2021, the TV series Snabba Cash was released on Netflix, containing 6 episodes based on the original novel.

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  2. ^ "Easy Money (2012)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
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  5. ^ Belloni, Borys Kit,Matthew; Kit, Borys; Belloni, Matthew (2010-04-14). "Zac Efron to play money launderer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ 730.no (2021-06-07). "Gode nyheter fra Netflix". 730.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)