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After knocking it out of the park with Poor Things last year, director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone are back at the box office with Kinds Of Kindness from Searchlight, which looks set to shake up a sluggish arthouse market with the best limited opening this year. The best PTA in 2024 so far…

Focus Features has taken worldwide rights to Yorgos Lanthimos' latest project Bugonia, the remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, which sees the Greek director reunite yet again with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. The trio are here in Cannes with their Competition title Kinds of Kindnes…

Everyone wanted to know about the nudity and bawdy sex scenes in Searchlight’s Kinds of Kindness at the pic’s riotous Cannes Film Festival press conference Saturday but politely referred to it as “physicality.” Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest, an anthology of three short films, covers plenty of off-kilter…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness premiered on Friday at Cannes, and earlier that day, in an interview at the Deadline studio, the director explained his vision for his new anthology film, written with his The Favourite collaborator, Efthimis Filippou: “We told each other, should we try a different…

Following four Oscar wins just a few months ago for his Emma Stone-starrer Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos unveiled his latest feature at Cannes’ Grand Theatre Lumiere this evening. His three-hour absurdist anthology Kinds of Kindness, also starring Stone as well as Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons, reaped a…

Who is RMF? We never do find out. Yorgos Lanthimos' trio of stories in Kinds of Kindness are titled The Death of RMF, RMF is Flying and RMF Eats a Sandwich.  RMF is a silent, bearded man identified by the monogram on his shirt. In the first story, he arrives at a Georgian mansion to take delivery of…

The Official Selection for the 77th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition (see full lists below). Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprentice, a feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea…

Here’s the striking first trailer and image for Yorgos Lanthimos’ new movie Kinds Of Kindness, which has a June 21 release date. The Searchlight Pictures charge stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. The…

Tony McNamara likes a challenge but when Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos first presented him with Alasdair Gray's 1992 novel by Poor Things to adapt into a script, even the seasoned Australian writer admits he found the material daunting.  "When Yorgos first gave me the book, I read it and thought…

Days after taking her second Best Actress Oscar for Poor Things, Emma Stone’s next movie with Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness, has set a theatrical release date of June 21 this summer. Searchlight just made the news official about their third feature project with Lanthimos after the Oscar winning The F…

UPDATED with Emma Stone win: Poor Things wrapped up its night at the Oscars with a lead actress win for Emma Stone, along with earlier nods for Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling and Costume Design. See the acceptance speeches above and below. A clearly emotional Stone thanked director Yorgos…

Mark Ruffalo has taken a turn. "I'm so sick of being so well-behaved," he says. "I just want to take the ship as close to the reef as I can without actually crashing it. And maybe I'll crash it too. I don't give a sh*t anymore." It's fair to say that prior to his Poor Things role, Ruffalo's credits…