Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult Get Emotional In 'equals'

VENICE, Italy (AP) — The movie business: What's love got to do with it? For director Drake Doremus, everything. The American filmmaker behind troubled-love stories "Like Crazy" and "Breathe In" is back with "Equals," a science-fiction romance that puts Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult into a future society where emotions — messy, disruptive things — have been genetically suppressed for the good of humanity. Their characters, Nia and Silas, develop feelings which blossom into a secret love that shakes their identities and endangers their lives. Doremus — a self-declared romantic — says the film grew from wanting to explore "a world where love is not essential to human beings ...