Fans are literally shaving their heads to see Bugonia , Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest collaboration with Emma Stone —a sci-fi corporate fever dream already earning cult status.
The film, part conspiracy satire and part cosmic joke, follows a pharma CEO (Stone) kidnapped by cousins convinced she’s an alien plotting humanity’s end.
Bugonia is in theaters starting October 31 with a global rollout through November and may stream on Peacock in early 2026—no clippers required.
By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines about Emma Stone shaving her head, or the fans doing the same in a Los Angeles theater lobby for free tickets. You may have scrolled past the photos of their glossy domes gleaming under fluorescent light, somewhere between performance art and marketing stunt. All of it circl

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