Overview
- Focus Features staged a free advance screening at the Culver Theater in Culver City that required attendees to arrive bald or be shaved on-site.
- Critics widely praise Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons’ performances while questioning Yorgos Lanthimos’ shock‑driven approach, with Rotten Tomatoes scores reported around 90%.
- The film begins a U.S. platform release on Oct. 24 with wider expansion expected later in October following a strong festival run that included Venice.
- Bugonia is an English‑language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 cult film Save the Green Planet! centered on two conspiracists who kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO they believe is an alien.
- Stone, who also serves as a producer, shaved her head for the role and described the transformation as quick, easy, and fun in recent interviews.