Today, Tuesday October 16th, shooting will begin on LIFE DELUXE the third installment in the very succesful EASY MONEY trilogy.
Starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dejan Cukic and Madeleine Martin featuring two new shooting stars Martin Wallström and Malin Buska, the third installment will be directed by Jens Jonsson. Jonsson´s debut feature, THE KING OF PING PONG (2008), won numerous awards including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Jonsson has also directed a number of short films and tv-series and has written the script for A RATIONAL SOLUTION (2009).
In LIFE DELUXE, JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notoriuos boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
Based on the bestselling books by Jens Lapidus, the films in the EASY MONEY trilogy have become very succesful. With more than 600.000 admissions in the Swedish cinemas, the first installment in the series, EASY MONEY (2010), entered the top 10 of most seen domestic films in Sweden during the last decade. The remake-rights have been acquired by Warner Bros. and a US-version of the film is currently in development by producer Charles Roven (THE DARK KNIGHT, 2008; TWELWE MONKEYS, 1995) with Zac Efron attached in the lead role as JW.
EASY MONEY proved an international success with planned releases in more than 30 countries. In July 2012 it opened in the US through the Weinstein Company and presented by Martin Scorsese to great reviews.
The second installment EASY MONEY II opened domestically on August 17th with 97.000 admissions in its opening weekend and stayed at the top 3 on the chart for 5 consecutive weeks.
LIFE DELUXE is produced by Fredrik Wikström Nicastro for Swedish production company Tre Vänner in co-production with Film i Väst, SVT (Sweden´s Television), Nordisk Film, Nordsvensk Filmunderhållning, Hobohm Brothers, Network Movie & ZDF/Arte with production support from The Swedish Film Institute in co-operation with C-more. Domestic release is set for Autumn 2013 through Nordisk Film Distribution.
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