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Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA To Be Released By Focus Features – Stars Emma Stone And Jesse Plemons
BUGONIA, the next film from six-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe (Element Pictures), Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen (Square Peg), Emma Stone (Fruit Tree), Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (CJ ENM) (POOR THINGS, THE FAVOURITE, THE LOBSTER, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER) has landed at Focus Features. Focus will release BUGONIA. with Universal Pictures distributing internationally (exclusively in Korea). The film stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The film is written by Will Tracy.
BUGONIA is based on the South Korean sci-fi comedy, “Save the Green Planet” 2003. 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), Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen (Square Peg), Emma Stone (Fruit Tree), Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (CJ ENM).
Lathimos’ 2023 film Poor Things, won the Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice film festival and earned 11 Academy Award® nominations and took home four wins, including Best Actress for star Emma Stone. Most recently, Kinds of Kindness held its world premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes and opens theatrically in the U.S. on June 21, 2024.
Focus Features has a stellar lineup of films to be released, this summer, later this year and into 2025.
THE BIKERIDERS from director Jeff Nichols on June 21st, PIECE BY PIECE from Morgan Neville about the life of multifaceted global superstar Pharrell Williams told through the lens of LEGO bricks, Robert Eggers’ reimagining of NOSFERATU, Edward Berger’s thriller CONCLAVE, Sundance-Award winner DÌDI (弟弟)’ (TRAILER) from Sean Wang, Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming crime-thriller BLACK BAG starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender and the highly anticipated third installment of the DOWNTON ABBEY franchise.
Stone is represented by Anonymous Content, WME, The Lede Company and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett and Kole.
Plemons is represented by TalentWorks and attorney David Matlof.
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