Emma Stone
Pricey Veneers Have Made Hollywood Smiles Too Perfect
Flawlessness has complications. Perfect teeth, long a Hollywood ideal, have now become the onscreen standard for A-list actors. The rise of orthodontia and the fall of smoking have played roles in bringing about this new normal. But the key factor has undoubtedly been the historic conquest of veneers. While there are notable holdouts — including […]
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Emmy Nominations: Emma Stone’s ‘The Curse’ and Nicole Kidman’s ‘Expats’ Snubbed as ‘Reservation Dogs’ and ‘Slow Horses’ Surprise
With several Emmys stalwarts not eligible for nominations this year, it was expected that there would be a number of surprises among the 2024 Emmy nominations. But while some series and stars broke through, other anticipated nominees from new shows didn’t fare as well as they’d hoped. Despite a big awards push, Showtime’s The Curse […]
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Robert Downey Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph Land Emmy Nominations in Same Year as Oscar Wins
Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued getting good news this year, thanks to the 2024 Emmys. After winning Oscars earlier this year, Downey and Randolph both received 2024 Emmys nominations Wednesday. Downey was nominated for best supporting actor in a limited series for HBO’s The Sympathizer, in which he plays multiple characters, while […]
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New Yorgos Lanthimos Movie ‘Bugonia’ Gets 2025 Release Date
Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos’ next film, to star Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, will be released wide in the U.S. on Nov. 7, 2025, Focus Features said Tuesday. Universal Pictures will release Bugonia internationally, excluding Korea, where CJ ENM will handle the local release. The film, written by Will Tracy, follows two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap […]
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Jesse Plemons Says ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Has Scenes That May Make “a Lot of People Sick to Their Stomachs”
After revealing that he felt sick to his stomach while reading the script for Kinds of Kindness, Jesse Plemons says some audience members may feel the same way when they sit down to watch the Yorgos Lanthimos film. The movie is split into three separate stories — about a man who tries to break free […]
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Cannes Best Actor Winner Jesse Plemons Unpacks ‘Kinds of Kindness’
Jesse Plemons has become an undisputed auteur’s favorite. The 36-year-old star’s beguiling unshowiness onscreen has landed him memorable parts in films from Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Steven Spielberg (Bridge of Spies, The Post), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon), Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things), Adam McKay (Vice) and Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), among so many others. Arguably even more viewers […]
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Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons to Star in New Yorgos Lanthimos Movie ‘Bugonia’
A day after his latest film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film has been announced. The director will helm Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, who lead his latest movie Kinds of Kindness. The script from Will Tracy follows two conspiracy-obsessed men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major […]
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Emma Stone Bats Around Questions of Feminism as ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Hits Cannes
Just eight months after filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone unveiled Poor Things at Venice, the duo are back on the festival circuit with Kinds of Kindness. The frequent collaborators faced the press at Cannes, where they tried to define the alchemy between their relationship, which netted Stone an Oscar for Poor Things and […]
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Cannes: Yorgos Lanthimos-Emma Stone Reunion ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Premieres to 4-Minute Standing Ovation
Yorgos Lanthimos revealed his particular brand of niceness as the Cannes Film Festival presented the world premiere of his twisted Kinds of Kindness on Friday night. The film, which reunites The Favourite and Poor Things director Lanthimos and star Emma Stone, was greeted with a 4-minute ovation inside the packed Grand Lumiere Theatre. As far […]
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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Headline Yorgos Lanthimos’ Insidious and Intriguing Studies in Love and Control
Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Hong Chau also star in a return for the Greek director to the subversiveness and ambiguity of his early films.
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Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder Reteam with A24 for Ben Mezrich’s Carlsen-Niemann Chess Scandal Story (Exclusive)
A24, operating on its new mandate to act aggressively in the pursuit of projects, just outplayed the Hollywood studios and streamers in order to pick up Checkmate, a hot feature package centered on a book proposal by Ben Mezrich, the author whose books were adapted into films such The Social Network and Dumb Money. If […]
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Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone Take a Ride on the Wild Side as TV’s Cringiest Couple
The Curse began with an actual curse, or at least the threat of one. When Nathan Fielder first moved from Canada to L.A. in 2009, a woman approached him on the street asking for a handout. He told her he had no money. She replied, “I curse you.” That anecdote, described by Fielder to pal […]
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