The Bugonia streaming release date is highly anticipated following the film’s theatrical release. Yorgos Lanthimos directed the film, which stars Emma Stone, who also produced it, thus marking the pair’s fifth collaboration. They previously worked together on the short film Bleat and the feature films The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness.
Here is Bugonia’s streaming release date estimate explained.
What is the Bugonia streaming release date estimate?
Bugonia’s streaming release date estimate is early 2026. This is based on the pattern followed by Universal Pictures films.
Focus Features, owned by Universal Pictures, distributed the film. Recently, Universal Pictures has typically dropped its films on Peacock about a month or two after their theatrical releases. For instance, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme hit US theaters on May 30, 2025. It then became available on streaming a month later, on July 25, 2025.
Thus, if Bugonia follows a similar pattern, then its early 2026 release timeframe, between January and February, becomes all the more likely.
Moreover, the film will also eventually make its way to Prime Video. This is thanks to a deal between Universal and the streamer. As part of this deal, Universal’s titles will be exclusively streamed by Prime Video in the middle 10 months of an 18-month window — with Peacock streaming the films in the first four and last four months. Thus, Bugonia would drop on Prime Video at some point during May-June or June-July 2026. It would then stay there until August-September 2026 before moving back to Peacock.
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Emma Stone revealed in a recent interview with PEOPLE that she kept her bald look in the film a secret. This is because she wanted to keep it a surprise for viewers. However, she admitted her dislike of wearing beanies for three months to hide her bald look.
In Bugonia, two men, obsessed with conspiracies, kidnap the powerful CEO of a prominent company, believing she is an alien who has come to destroy Earth.
Emma Stone leads Bugonia’s cast. Supporting cast members include Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, J. Carmen Galindez Barrera, Marc T. Lewis, Vanessa Eng, and Cedric Dumonray.
The synopsis for Bugonia is as follows:
“Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.”
