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Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons film 'Bugonia' to open in October

By Fred Topel   |   May 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Emma Stone, seen at the 2025 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, stars in "Bugonia." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Emma Stone, seen at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, stars in "Bugonia." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Jesse Plemons, seen with wife, Kirsten Dunst, at the 2024 "Kinds of Kindness" premiere in New York, stars in "Bugonia." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI From left, Jesse Plemons, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, seen at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, reunite in "Bugonia." File Photo by Rune Hellestad/ UPI Alicia Silverstone, seen at the 2022 Bloomingdale's and Harper's BAZAAR fête at Bloomingdale's in New York, NY, also stars in "Bugonia." File Photo by Gabriele Holtermann/UPI

May 1 (UPI) -- Focus Features announced the release date for the film Bugonia on Thursday. Bugonia will open in New York and Los Angeles Oct. 24 and nationwide on Oct. 31.

Bugonia is the latest collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. The trio made Kinds of Kindness, and Stone starred in Lanthimos' The Favourite and Poor Things.

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In Bugonia, two men kidnap a CEO because they believe she is an alien out to destroy the world. Aiden Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone also star.

Will Tracy wrote the screenplay.

Focus first announced the film in May of 2024.