Emma Stone's Bugonia Coming To VOD: Release Date Announced

Emma Stone's 87% RT Sci-Fi Movie Gets VOD Release Date Emma Stone as Michelle walking down a street looking distraught in BugoniaFocus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection By  Grant Hermanns Published 40 minutes ago Grant Hermanns is a TV News Editor, Interview Host and Reviewer for ScreenRant, having joined the team in early 2021. He got his start in the industry with Moviepilot, followed by working at ComingSoon.net. When not indulging in his love of film/TV, Grant is making his way through his gaming backlog and exploring the world of Dungeons & Dragons with friends. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap

After garnering widespread acclaim while in theaters, Emma Stone's Bugonia is now about to come to video on demand. Reuniting Stone with five-time Oscar nominee Yorgos Lanthimos for their fourth consecutive project, the movie is a remake of the South Korean black comedy Save the Green Planet!. Stone stars as a pharmaceutical CEO kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist and his autistic cousin, who believe her to be an alien slowly destroying the planet.

Also starring Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis and Stavros Halkias, Bugonia has scored critical acclaim since making its premiere at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival. On the box office side of things, however, the movie has endured a rockier road, currently having amassed just shy of $33 million worldwide against a budget reportedly costing upward of $55 million.

Now, one month after the sci-fi movie remake hit theaters, Universal Pictures has announced Bugonia's VOD release date. The film, which has maintained an 87% "Certified Fresh" approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, will be coming to digital platforms on November 25, followed by a physical release on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 23.

Though it doesn't come as a general surprise for the film to be making its way to digital platforms now, Bugonia's VOD release date does mark a change in Focus Features and Universal's typical release pattern. The studios' films generally hit digital platforms two weeks after their theatrical releases, with few exceptions this year including the live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake and Ari Aster's Eddington, which similarly got home releases a month later.

As to why the studio is bringing Bugonia home a little later than their normal model, there could be a few reasons for said delay. The most likely is the hope of giving the movie a bigger push in the upcoming Oscars and Golden Globes seasons, as voters for both awards events do often take a film's box office performance and presence into account, along with its overall quality, and as such likely had hopes of keeping it going long enough to take hold in voters' minds.

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Regardless of the reason for the wait, Bugonia's VOD date also comes as something of a positive for Focus' chances at recouping their money from the film. As previously noted, the sci-fi remake was performing modestly well in its first couple of weeks in theaters, but has since dipped out of the box office top 10 as the likes of Wicked: For Good and The Running Man have arrived. If audiences who missed it in theaters want to engage with Oscar hopefuls, Bugonia could end up making back its money and then some on VOD to become a real sleeper hit.

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