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New York Post
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Emma Stone asks $26.5M for her Austin mansion — whose years-long renovation is nearly complete
Emma Stone is moseying on out of Austin, Texas. The 'Poor Things' actress recently listed the $26.5 million Austin property she shares with her husband, comedy writer Dave McCary. The couple purchased the West Austin estate in 2021 with plans to move their family there, the Wall Street Journal reported. After years of renovations and restoration, however, the pair have decided to sell it instead. 10 McCary and Stone met on 'Saturday Night Live' in 2016 and married in 2020. Getty Images for Searchlight Pictures 10 The couple purchased this historic Austin estate in 2021. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 The property includes a large pool, a guesthouse and a decked-out garage. Travis Baker from Twist Tours The listing is represented by Eric Moreland and Diane Humphreys of Moreland Properties/Forbes Global Properties. The Georgian-style brick house in the desirable Terrytown neighborhood is located roughly 10 minutes from downtown Austin. The listing is currently among the most expensive in the city. The estate spans 10,000 square feet, encompassing a four-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse and a garage. The latter features its own screening room and entertaining space, according to the listing. The property also boasts a pool, a hot tub and gardens. 10 The property spans 1.24 acres. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 The listing boasts a cutting garden, a fairy garden and plenty of lawn space. Travis Baker from Twist Tours The main house has a sunlit solarium and a paneled library. Listing photos show an empty home with fresh millwork on the walls, leaded-glass windows, creamy marble accents and herringbone floors. The couple spent three years renovating the 1940s-era home, Moreland told the Journal, including opening up the kitchen to the living room and installing extensive millwork in the screening room. The pair also removed, cleaned and reused all the home's exterior brick, according to the outlet. Contractors are still putting the final touches on the home, Moreland said. 10 Renovations included opening up the kitchen for a more modern layout. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 A curving staircase shows signs of fresh paint. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 Classic interior accents include creamy marble fireplaces. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 A wood-paneled staircase. Travis Baker from Twist Tours 10 The richly tiled bathroom comes with a free-standing tub. Travis Baker from Twist Tours Stone and McCary launched their production company Fruit Tree in 2020, which has since produced award-winning films like 'Poor Things' and 'A Real Pain.' Moreland told the outlet that the couple's business interests have 'expanded' since they purchased the 1.24-acre property, and continuing to hold onto it 'doesn't make sense' for them right now. Stone's other recent real estate moves include the $4.42 million sale of her Malibu home in 2022, followed by the $4.3 million sale of her Los Angeles home last year. She made impressive profits in both cases, the Journal reported. Whether Stone and McCary will make a significant buck in parting with their Austin home is unclear, as real estate sales prices are not publicly available in Texas property records. The family still owns a reported $12 million apartment in Lower Manhattan.
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 Independent
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Halle Berry praises Chris Hemsworth for ‘standing up for her' during filming of new movie
Halle Berry has praised Chris Hemsworth for standing up for her during the shooting of their latest movie. Oscar-winner Berry, 58, and Hemsworth, 41, are both leads in Crime 101, based on the novella of the same name written by Don Winslow. The film, directed by Bart Layton, also stars Saltburn actor Barry Keoghan and Poor Things' Mark Ruffalo. Berry and Hemsworth shared their mutual admiration for each other during the promotion of the film, as the Catwoman star revealed she had experienced some awkwardness during its making. '[He's] a stand-up guy,' Berry told E! News at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. 'I won't go into it now, but he stood up for me in a moment in our movie, and instantly I knew right then I'm gonna follow this guy, be a fan of this guy for the rest of his life because he stood up for a woman. 'He didn't have to do it and he did it.' Hemsworth, who is due to start filming the next instalment of Avengers, returned the respects admitting he had been 'very intimidated' to work with her. 'I've admired Halle's work for many, many years,' he said. 'I was obviously very intimidated to sit opposite her within a scene and try and, you know, not just be in awe of what she was doing.' He added: 'Certain people just bring out not just the best in you, but also sort of a comfort level where it feels like it's a place to explore and it's a place to examine different ideas and try different things. And that was the experience [with Berry]. I loved every second of it.' Berry has attempted to end the rumours claiming she'll return as Storm in Avengers: Doomsday, which starts shooting this month in London. The actor was notably missing from the list of actors who would appear in the sequel, which is bringing back a number of stars from the films released between 2000 to 2016. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and James Marsden will all reprise their roles as Professor X, Magneto and Cyclops, as will Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn as Nightcrawler and Mystique, respectively. Kelsey Grammer will also return as Beast, having shown up in a post-credits sequence for 2024 film The Marvels.
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.'
See - Sada Elbalad
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Zoe Saldaña, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Zegler, More Stars Added to Oscar Presenters Lineup
Yara Sameh Dave Bautista, Harrison Ford, Andrew Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Saldaña, Rachel Zegler, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, and Gal Gadot, are the latest stars to join the presenters list for the 97th Oscars on March 2. They join Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Selena Gomez, Willem Dafoe, Joe Alwyn, Sterling K. Brown, Goldie Hawn, Connie Nielsen, Ben Stiller, and Oprah Winfrey, while Nick Offerman will serve as the announcer for this year's ceremony. Other presenters include Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Elle Fanning, Whoopi Goldberg, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow, Amy Poehler, June Squibb, Bowen Yang and last year's Oscar winners Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr., who were previously announced. Stone won best actress for playing Bella Baxter in 'Poor Things' by Yorgos Lanthimos; Murphy was best actor for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'; Downey Jr. won best supporting actor for playing Lewis Strauss in 'Oppenheimer'; Randolph won best supporting actress for her performance as Mary Lamb in 'The Holdovers,' directed by Alexander Payne. Stone is a two-time Oscar winner, having won previously for her role in Damien Chazelle's 'La La Land.' Murphy, Downey Jr., and Randolph were all first-time winners in 2024. When accepting her second Oscar, Stone told the crowd that she had been 'panicking' about the possibility of winning the award. 'Yorgos [Lanthimos] said to me, please take yourself out of it. And he was right because it's not about me. It's about a team that came together to make something greater than the sum of its parts.' Conan O'Brien will host the 97th Oscars ceremony, which will be held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2 at 4 p.m. PT and 7 p.m. ET. The ceremony is aired on ABC or streamed live on Hulu, an option added for the first time this year. The red carpet begins airing at 30 minutes before the show. The production team includes executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor, executive producer Katy Mullan, co-executive producer Rob Pain, and producers Sarah Levine Hall, Taryn Hurd, Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney. Mandy Moore is the supervising choreographer, and Noah Mitz and Bob Dickinson will be the lighting designers. Hamish Hamilton will direct the show.
