Emma Stone Reanimated In ‘Poor Things’, Wim Wenders’ 3D Homage To Anselm Kiefer & ‘Waitress: The Musical’ – Specialty Preview
08.12.2023 - 21:29
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Golden Lion Winner Poor Things is here with Searchlight Pictures sewing up nine theaters in four major markets for leg one of the Emma Stone-starring surreal-period-comedy-horror.
The film debuts in NYC (AMC Lincoln Square, Regal Union Square, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn) and LA (AMC Century City, AMC The Grove, AMC Burbank 16) as well as San Francisco (AMC Metreon, Alamo Drafthouse Mission) and Austin (Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar). Lanthimos, Stone and stars Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe join Q&As in New York and tickets have been selling out. Stone hosted SNL last Saturday, joining the exclusive “five-timers club”, and made stops in recent days at Good Morning America, Sunday Today and ABC News Live Prime to talk up the fantastical tale.
Stone plays Bella Baxter, a young Victorian woman mysteriously brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Godwin Baxter (Dafoe) who lives as the doctor’s ward. But Bella is eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she is lacking. She runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across stylized European cities with multicolored skies. An innocent, free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows increasingly steadfast in her purpose to seek equality and liberation. See Deadline review.
Poor Things’ unique look was recreated in an immersive pop-up experience this week at the Maison Premiere in Brooklyn, which invited guest into the Salon of Seduction — “inspired by the captivating life of the film’s heroine” with peep-show-style booths, hand-crafted cocktails, snacks and performances from the film, which also screened at Telluride, New York Film Festival and various international