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Released
2025 · FILM

Bugonia

Conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz kidnaps the enigmatic CEO of a powerful pharma firm, believing she’s an alien mastermind poised to unleash a hive‑mind invasion during a lunar eclipse; with his autistic cousin’s reluctant help, he must extract proof and stop the extraterrestrial plot before humanity is subjugated.

“Of all the abductions, this one is different.”

Directed by
Yorgos Lanthimos, Stephanie Bradshaw
Written by
Will Tracy, Jang Joon Hwan
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
118 min
ComedyCrimeSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Two young men, obsessed with conspiracy theories, kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 699+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Yorgos MavropsaridisShot by Robbie RyanScored by Jerskin FendrixDesigned by James PriceSound by Maximilian BehrensCostumes by Jennifer JohnsonStunts by Alex AnastasopoulosVFX by Adam Azmy

Box Office

2025 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$40.8M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$40.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $17.7M — 43% of worldwide · International: $23.1M (57%)

Opening weekend: $710K — 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.0M — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 17 theaters

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ProductionFocus Features, Fremantle, Element Pictures

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