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02-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's "Bugonia" Gets New Release Date
Yara Sameh Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and Oscar winner Emma Stone's project 'Bugonia" will premiere ahead of schedule. The film will open in select theaters on October 24 before expanding nationwide on October 31. That's slightly earlier than the original release date of November 7. Focus Features is rolling out 'Bugonia' in the U.S. and Canada while Universal Pictures, the specialty studio's parent company, will handle international distribution. 'Bugonia,' a remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy 'Save the Green Planet,' revolves around two conspiracy-obsessed friends who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major corporation because they are convinced she's an alien intent on destroying Earth. Jesse Plemons, who worked with Stone and Lanthimos on 'Kinds of Kindness,' also leads the cast alongside Alicia Silverstone, Aidan Delbis, and Stavros Halkias. Lanthimos is directing from a script by Will Tracy, whose credits include 'The Menu' and 'Succession.' Stone and Lanthimos were producers — via their respective companies Fruit Tree and Pith — in their latest team-up following 'Poor Things,' 'The Favourite' and 'Kinds of Kindness.' Producers also include Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, Ari Aster and Lars Knusden of Square Peg, and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko of CJ ENM. Focus Features won a bidding war for 'Bugonia,' a departure for Lanthimos after Searchlight distributed his prior three films, 2018's 'The Favourite,' 2023's 'Poor Things' and 2024's 'Kinds of Kindness.' A24 distribution the two prior to that, 2015's 'The Lobster' and 2017's 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Lifestyle Pistachio and Raspberry Cheesecake Domes Recipe News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Videos & Features Bouchra Dahlab Crowned Miss Arab World 2025 .. Reem Ganzoury Wins Miss Arab Africa Title (VIDEO) Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple
Time of India
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Jesse Plemons joins 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'
Actor Jesse Plemons , best known for "Breaking Bad", has become the latest addition to the star cast of "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping". According to the entertainment news outlet Deadline, the 37-year-old actor will join the previously announced cast, which includes Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, and Mckenna Grace . "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping" is an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestselling book. Directed by Francis Lawrence , the film is expected to release on November 20, 2026. Plemons' latest work is "Kinds of Kindness" from Yorgos Lanthimos. Released in 2024, the film also starred Margaret Qualley , Emma Stone and Hunter Schafer. Zero Day Trailer: Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons and Connie Britton Starrer Zero Day Official Trailer
The Guardian
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Incompatible with the symbolism': Yorgos Lanthimos denied permission to shoot new film at the Acropolis
Greece's leading contemporary director has had a request to shoot footage for his new film at the Acropolis in Athens denied by his country's culture ministry. Yorgos Lanthimos had filed a request to film scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at the fifth-century BC site in April. But in a statement on Thursday, the culture ministry said permission had been refused because 'the proposed scenes are incompatible with the symbolism … and the values the Acropolis represents'. Bugonia is Lanthimos's latest collaboration with Emma Stone, who won the best actress Oscar for her role in his 2023 comedy Poor Things. In their new film, whose scheduled November release date suggests a major awards push, Stone stars as the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company kidnapped by a conspiracist bee-keeper, played by her Kinds of Kindness co-star Jesse Plemons. The scenes in question depicted 70 dead bodies placed between two of the Greek citadel's key sites: the Propylaea, its complex of Doric entrance buildings, and the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. Lanthimos's request appears to have initially been welcomed by the ministry of culture, who agreed to waive the standard filming fee for the Acropolis – around €1,984 (£1,700) per day – in recognition of the director's international standing. However, this offer was subject to the approval of the Central Archaeological Council, which oversees the Acropolis. They rejected Lanthimos's proposal, citing symbolic inappropriateness and insufficient reverence, and suggested nearby alternatives where he could film. The ministry of culture is said to have delayed its final ruling until producers from the film indicated whether they would pursue another location. On Wednesday, culture minister Lina Mendoni received a letter from Lanthimos's team, reiterating their previously rejected request, but reportedly not providing sufficient grounds for her to ask the Central Archeological Council to reconsider. Despite being widely regarded as one of the planet's most important cultural artefacts, the Acropolis in Athens has often been used as a filming location. It featured extensively in Sophia Loren's 1957 breakthrough, Boy on a Dolphin, as well as in more recent films such as Patricia Highsmith adaptation The Two Faces of January (2014) and Before Midnight (2013). Comparable sites, such as Stonehenge or the Vatican, are usually rebuilt as replicas. Born in Athens, Lanthimos, 51, was among the creative team behind the TV visuals for the 2004 Olympics held in the city. He made his breakthrough film with 2009's Dogtooth, which won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes and was nominated for the best international Oscar. Alps (2011), The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) cemented his reputation for challenging absurdist comedies, before he found mainstream acclaim with Queen Anne comedy-drama The Favourite (2018), which was nominated for 10 Oscars, winning best actress for Olivia Colman. Lanthimos's first photography monograph, titled Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken, featured photos shot behind the scenes on Poor Things. A second book, I Shall Sing These Songs Beautifully, collected shots from the production of Kinds of Kindness. An exhibition of some of these photographs – Lanthimos's first bricks-and-mortar show – has just opened at a gallery in Los Angeles.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Focus Creates A Buzz With First Footage Of Emma Stone In ‘Bugonia'
Focus Features rolled out new footage from some of its highly anticipated upcoming films during its portion of Universal's CinemaCon presentation Wednesday, including a quick teaser for Yorgos Lanthimos' next movie Bugonia. The film is a reteam for Lanthimos and his Kinds of Kindness stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons and hits domestic theaters November 7. The story follows two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth. In the footage shown today were ample musings on and shots of honey bees, as well as Stone's CEO literally having her hair buzzed off. More from Deadline Universal Kicks Off Its CinemaCon With 43-Piece Orchestra & 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' CinemaCon 2025: First Looks & Big Reveals in Photos 'M3GAN 2.0': Killer Doll Meets Nasty A.I. Emilia In First Look At CinemaCon This was fitting after Focus president Peter Kujawski reminded the CinemaCon audience that he last year called specialty films 'the honey bees of the movie business who are pollinating the future.' Today, he added movie theaters to that equation. He also said, 'We are extremely proud to work with and empower filmmakers to make films that really thrive in a communal movie theater.' The Focus slate 'runs the gamut, but every film is made for the vital theatrical experience.' Also upcoming, Focus has Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, which also got a showcase today; Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale; Chloé Zhao's Hamnet; Ethan Coen's Honey Don't!; and Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut with Anemone, starring and co-written by Daniel Day-Lewis. Further Bugonia cast includes Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone. Focus has the movie stateside, while Universal Pictures has the Will Tracy-written movie abroad sans Korea which is being handled by CJ ENM. Bugonia is based on the South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet! written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan and produced by Sidus. This English-language version was developed by CJ ENM with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen at Square Peg. The production has been financed by Fremantle and CJ ENM. Producers are Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe (Element Pictures); Lanthimos, Aster and Knudsen (Square Peg); Stone; and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (CJ ENM). Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery The Best 7 New Movies To Watch On Netflix In April 2025 Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Yorgos Lanthimos Flexes New Creative Muscle With Debut Photography Exhibition in Los Angeles
Yorgos Lanthimos started taking pictures on set out of necessity. 'We didn't have an on set photographer when we were making little films in Greece,' the Oscar-nominated auteur recalls. 'I would take my own for publicity, but I enjoyed it at the same time.' That pleasure has multiplied to become a full-fledged passion. He has since been shooting on the sets of his high-profile films like Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things, and those collections of images respectively produced the photography books i shall sing these songs beautifully (MACK, 2004) and Dear God, the Parthenon is Still Broken (Void, 2024). The books have now inspired yet another creative endeavor as Lanthimos is set to have his first exhibition of still photography at MACK + Webber at 939 in Los Angeles. More from The Hollywood Reporter Emma Stone, Dave McCary's Fruit Tree Production Company Inks First-Look TV Deal With Fremantle Spirit Awards: Jesse Eisenberg Calls 'A Real Pain' Producer Emma Stone His "Fairy Godmother" Robert Downey Jr., Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy and Da'Vine Joy Randolph to Present at 2025 Oscars Ahead of its opening this weekend — the exhibition runs March 29-May 18 — Lanthimos joined The Hollywood Reporter on Zoom to discuss his love of the art form, how processing images helped him and his Oscar winner Emma Stone unwind after long days shooting Poor Things and why he's currently fixated on his home country (but still too nervous to approach strangers). It's a big endeavor to have an exhibition. Why did you say yes? I've been falling more and more in love with photography as the years go by. I love the freedom and the simplicity it offers compared to making films, not that it's simple in itself. Before we even made these two books, I didn't know if I ever would have enough pictures to fill a book, let alone make an exhibition. But it's a medium that I love. As soon as we finished the books and this opportunity arose, I couldn't wait to see the images in a different setting, in a different environment and in a different edit. The way that you interact with a book is different than the way you interact with a space. There are less images and those images relate differently to one another. It's just like how watching a film in a theater is different than watching it at home. I've never seen my pictures before in a space like this either, so it will be an exciting and different experience. Why do you think you've been falling more in love with photography? I was always definitely interested in it. I always took pictures, as we all do, but because I was into filmmaking, I was a little bit more proficient technically. I used to take pictures on film sets early on when I started making commercials. I would shoot pictures to have memories. I never took it very seriously. I was just collecting images as a way to remember and document things, and that continued until I started taking more when I started making films. In the beginning it was a necessity because we didn't have an on-set photographer when we were making little films in Greece. I would take my own for publicity, but I enjoyed it at the same time. It wasn't until Poor Things gave me the opportunity to say that we're building this entire world. That became an opportunity with this photography to do something that could stand on its own and show a very different view of this world that we created. The scale and the whole endeavor was interesting enough to push me to try and take more pictures, not just as a representation of the film or a scene but I wanted to see if I could find something else there. That's when I started taking these large format black-and-white portraits of the actors that are very posed and constructed in a way. What else were you drawn to? There were all these other pictures taken during the building of the world but the destruction of it was also very interesting. Pictures of the sets being demolished and the beauty of the rubble versus the beauty of the world that was created. In the end, we saw that maybe this whole collection of images could amount to a book that would be a different testament to what we went through there. That's how the first book came about, and that led me to thinking that I could take [photography] more seriously. During that time, we also started processing the film on our own, in our bathrooms in Budapest during filming. When I came back to Athens to edit the film, I built a dark room next to my editing suite. I was even more serious about it. I started to learn printing. You did get more serious about it. Yes, so when the time came to film Kinds of Kindness, which was also in a real place in the city, it gave me an opportunity to do something that was even one step further away from what the film was about. I could turn around and photograph the city or someone who was passing by, and was curious about the film or the people who worked on it. I shot in black-and-white and used flash, which created a totally different atmosphere to what the film was. It was a conscious way of making pictures to make something very different than the film. That's how the MACK book came about. In between that and over the last few years, I've been photographing anyway when I travel. Even when I'm in Athens, I will go around and photograph things. I'm very much more consciously thinking about creating a body of work and making something with these photographs that are not related at all to my films. I don't think it was one thing that [inspired my love], maybe it was an opportunity that just got me hooked on the whole process. I love the process of photography, processing, printing, all the analog details of what it entails is so magical to me. It's interesting to hear you say that you like to take pictures while managing an entire movie production. How do you squeeze in the time? It feels natural to me. Again, I've always had a camera and I would even just be looking at shots and things through a lens to figure things out. You only need a few seconds to take a picture, or less than that. When it enters your mind, it also allows you to disengage with the rest of the process for a second, and then you go back. It also moves you to a slightly different mindset, which I actually find beneficial while filming. Instead of becoming too obsessed with one thing that's going on, I find that it helps. The surprising thing is what happened on Poor Things. This story has been told before but Emma and I we would sometimes just go back to process film at the end of a long day. She learned how to do it during that time and she became obsessed with it as well. It kind of gave us strength in a way because of how almost meditative it is to process. And it would help us get ready for the next day. It wasn't about squeezing it in as it became an integral part of the creative process. Do you see potential for another photography book that would include these images you mentioned taking outside of film sets, like the ones in Athens and while traveling? Yeah, definitely, if I get enough good pictures to make a book. It makes even more sense to me that I would do that since I'm interested in photography. With films, it's almost easier because you are there on a set and there are things readily available for you to photograph. But at the same time, to create something that is not replicating the film and just for pictures in a book is hard. It's not the most straightforward thing to do what we try to do. I find it more natural that my photography interests are to create something separate from the films, which is what I'm trying to do. How do you describe your vision when you're traveling or existing in the world? What are you drawn to? For the time being, I'm a bit fascinated with my own country. I lived for 10 years in London, and I only came back here [to Greece] three years ago. I'm more based here but we travel so much for everything that we do so I don't end up spending too much time in one place. But I'm rediscovering the city and the country that I grew up in, it's landscape in particular, both urban and natural. I'm very interested in observing how the city was built, which is, I don't know if you've been, but feels quite chaotic yet warm at the same time. You can see so many contradictions in how it is structured and built, so many strange things that don't go together. When you go to an island, which is beautiful still, you can see how human presence has affected that kind of landscape and where it's going and where it was. You see a history of the touch of the human hand. I'm interested in portraiture as well. It's really hard for me to approach people and ask to take pictures of them. That's why it has been easier for me to take pictures on film sets. But I've done it a little bit with people that I know or are friends. I'm planning to do it even more by meeting people that know people that know someone that I can have a chain and link of people that I can photograph and take more portraits of people. It still needs time, and that's why photography is great because you don't need to rush to do it in a month like you do when you're completing a project. We're editing another film now and as soon as I'm done with that, I'm really looking forward to taking a break and focusing on photography. How is the editing process on and how far along are you? It's great. I mean, we're editing now and you never know exactly when you're done until you're done. You always think you're all there, and then there's all these little things that come up. I allow myself a little bit of time between looking at the edit of films just to get a little bit outside of it so I can see it with fresh eyes as much as possible after a week of not looking at it. We're at a good place. We're almost done with the editing and yeah, we'll see. For the exhibit, was there a story you were trying to tell based on how you curated the images? Not really. And that's what I love about photography and what draws me to it. The beautiful thing about photographs is that you can put them together and they mean one thing, you put two different ones together, they mean another thing and then those same images mean different things to different people. Looking at one picture and what it says can mean vastly different things to each person according to who they are. We only go by a certain kind of intuition of which photographs make sense in the space, and if they create tension between them and how that is released. It's a very almost musical thing that happens when editing the pictures. Because the exhibit is using the images from two books — which are very different to one another, not just in the content but in how they're designed — we're trying to utilize the space in a similar way. The images from one book are in one space and then the Poor Things images are in another. We've tried to put them together and present them as different as they are in the book. One is a little bit more structured, more conventional and plain and then for Poor Things, which as a book is more complex and very designed, it's a smaller space that has a lot of pictures in one place. It's still creative. I've never done this before and I'm really looking forward to it. How do the actors feel about the photography? The first people I send the books out to are the actors and people who are in the book. They seem to be enjoying it. Emma was even involved in some of the processing so other than being in the pages, she's also helped develop some of the images. That kind of gives her a different perspective of the whole thing. But I think for the actors, it is something that doesn't have the gravity or does not require so much of them in the same way a film does. It can be a lighter experience that maybe leads to something more substantial like a book or an exhibition or something. But I think they enjoy it. Where do you go for inspiration or when you need to unplug but find that creative spark? When I visit places, I do try and see things that I'm interested in, but also because work is so intense and it makes you travel anyway, and I just find solace when I'm able to think and ponder about things. When I get back home or I go to an island in Greece, that can be a kind of meditative process for me that gives me time to get into a different zone. Best of The Hollywood Reporter From 'Lady in the Lake' to 'It Ends With Us': 29 New and Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2024 Meet the Superstars Who Glam Up Hollywood's A-List Rosie O'Donnell on Ellen, Madonna, Trump and 40 Years in the Queer Spotlight
