Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos's dark sci-fi comedy Bugonia has emerged as a surprise streaming success, marking a comeback for one of last year's most divisive releases. It follows the pair's earlier collaborations on The Favourite and Poor Things, both of which earned Stone Oscar recognition and grossed over $100 million worldwide, though their subsequent films together struggled at the box office by comparison.

The renewed streaming interest comes after Bugonia's cinema run yielded modest box office returns, following Kinds of Kindness, an anthology film released a year earlier that also underperformed commercially while splitting critics and audiences, scoring 71% with critics and 50% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Stone is now moving towards more mainstream work, including an upcoming romantic comedy directed by her husband Dave McCary and co-starring Chris Pine.