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See - Sada Elbalad
02-05-2025
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- See - Sada Elbalad
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
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bugonia Gets Earlier Release Date for Yorgos Lanthimos Movie With Emma Stone
A release date for Yorgos Lanthimos' movie has been set. Bugonia is a new Focus Features movie that is directed by Poor Things' Lanthimos. An English-language remake of 2003's Save the Green Planet!, the movie stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Focus Features has announced that Bugonia will begin playing in select theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on October 24, 2025. It will then expand nationwide on October 31, 2025. Prior to the recent announcement, the movie was scheduled to come out on November 7, 2025. 'Bugonia sees two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth,' the synopsis for the film reads. In addition to Stone and Plemons, Bugonia stars Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. The screenplay comes from Will Tracy, while Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe serve as producers for Element Pictures. Other producers include Lanthimos for Pith, Stone for Fruit Tree, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen for Square Peg, and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko for CJ ENM. Lanthimos has worked with Stone on 2018's The Favourite, 2023's Poor Things (which earned Stone the Academy Award for Best Actress), and 2024's Kinds of Kindness, the latter of which also starred Plemmons. Prior to that, Lanthimos co-directed 2001's My Best Friend with Lakis Lazopoulos before he went on to helm 2005's Kinetta, 2009's Dogtooth, 2011's Alps, 2015's The Lobster, and 2017's The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Save the Green Planet!, meanwhile, is currently available to stream on Kanopy. Directed by Jang Joon-hwan, the film stars Shin Ha-kyung as Lee Byeong-gu, Baek Yoon-sik as Kang Man-shik, Hwang Jeong-min as Su-ni, Lee Jae-yong as Detective Choo, and Lee Ju-hyeon as Detective Kim. Source: Focus Features The post Bugonia Gets Earlier Release Date for Yorgos Lanthimos Movie With Emma Stone appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
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
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Free association with Yorgos Lanthimos: The filmmaker on his first photography show
Yorgos Lanthimos needed to relieve stress while filming 'Poor Things' on soundstages in Budapest and 'Kinds of Kindness' on location around New Orleans. So the Oscar-nominated auteur of such unnerving, challenging movies as 'Dogtooth,' 'The Lobster' and 'The Favourite' took up art photography. 'Something clicked in me while making 'Poor Things': I went 'OK, why don't I just enjoy this?' ' the filmmaker told The Times at the opening of his first gallery exhibition, 'Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs,' at Webber 939 gallery in L.A.'s Arts District. The show will be there through May 18. That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment's bathroom. Emma Stone, who would go on to win an Oscar for her performance in 'Poor Things,' often joined him after extended workdays at Origo Studios. 'We learned how to process both black-and-white and color,' Lanthimos explains. 'It became like our meditation, our relaxation.' A capacity crowd of art fans and industry folks gathered last weekend to check out the entirely photochemical-made prints — not a single digitized step was involved — lining the gallery's white and red brick walls. Predominantly monochrome photos taken during the 'Kindness' production feature Stone, co-star Jesse Plemons and sometimes random Louisianans posing, often, with their faces obscured or turned away from the lens. These works are featured in the book 'I Shall Sing These Songs Beautifully.' A three-sided black box in the back of the gallery showcases rich color tableaux and classic black-and-white portraits from 'Poor Things,' the latter taken the old-fashioned way with insertable plates of Ilford HP5 film in a wood-and-carbon-fiber Chamonix 4x5 camera. Collected in another art book, 'Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken,' the photos depict co-star Margaret Qualley with paint smears on her face, Stone as Bella Baxter in Victorian period garb on the hood of a production vehicle beside a coffee cup and foam food container, and the radiantly hued seascape on a volume stage with a dormant fog machine in front of it. The rubble of the struck set for the Baxter home in that movie, a fully laid-out, purpose-built filming environment, is particularly heartrending: through Lanthimos' still lens, it looks like it was hit by a tornado. Such images may infer that the director is deconstructing his work in one medium with another, but there was nothing so intentional on his mind. 'It was, 'Why don't I see if, with my photography, I can find something here which is a different perspective from what is happening in the film?' ' says Lanthimos, who learned basic photography skills at film school in his native Athens, and snapped publicity shots for his early Greek features when there was no money for set photographers. 'I also had this privilege of being able to go wherever I want, in corners that nobody would ever be while they're watching the film,' he adds. 'Everything was a built set on 'Poor Things.' I was able to go behind and on top of it, see the construction and demolition, which were quite interesting for me to photograph both visually and emotionally. Having built whole houses to film in and then seeing them demolished, it's quite brutal.' The photographer took a different tack during the 'Kindness' shoot, turning his Mamiya 7 or Pentax 6x7 away from the production's real locations to capture life — or a dejected semblance of it — beyond the movie's mise-en-scene. In one large, redolent print, a woman in a white coat stands beside a deserted stretch of road, gazing beyond a patch of grass while the shadow of a utility pole bisects her body from head to heels. 'That image does what all great still photography does, which is suggest a narrative way beyond the frame and the subject,' observes Michael Mack, whose eponymous London publishing company made the 'Song' book. ('Parthenon' is from Greek publisher Void.) 'It has this drive that makes you question precisely what it is, what's happened, why is she there? You elaborate, manifest all these possibilities — it's close to his filmmaking in that sense. You have these ideas welling up, whether you like them or not.' As do such films as 'The Lobster,' Lanthimos' New Orleans images defy what you'd expect to see from the project. He's not about to articulate what we're supposed to make of them, either. 'I can't really, because it's mostly an exploration,' he says. 'How can you see this world in a different way? What else is there to reveal? 'I just enjoyed experimenting,' he elaborates. 'Filming a scene at night and then looking up and seeing a tree, imagining what it would look like if I flashed the tree and revealed all the details which I couldn't see with my eye.' Lanthimos also took out his camera while filming the upcoming 'Bugonia,' also starring Stone and Plemons. He doesn't know if if they will be part of another book or exhibition, but is certain that his new creative outlet is here to stay. 'You have a freer association,' Lanthimos says of this camera work. 'For some reason, we're more lenient with photography being less narrative, which is something that I love.'
