‘Presence’ Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Returns To The Big Screen
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From Ryan Cordaro
It feels like Steven Soderbergh needs to be in the conversation more as one of the most versatile directors working in Hollywood right now. The reason why I’m writing this post is mainly because I didn’t even realize how many big movies he’s made that have him as the director. The poster for this movie basically relies on that. It lists out movies like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ocean’s 11, and even Magic Mike among others. It basically leads up to this: Steven Soderbergh is directing a new horror-adjacent movie, and it’s being released by NEON.
Not much is shown in the little teaser below, but Presence will be the classic example of a haunted house movie. A family moves into a new house, and they begin to notice some strange, supernatural occurances. The kicker, though, is that Presence is filmed entirely from a first-person perspective, right from what we see through the entity that’s haunting this new family. Another big addition is screenwriter David Koepp, who should get his own poster similar to the one that was released highlighting Soderbergh’s movies. Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, Panic Room, War of the Worlds… he’s got a lot of bangers in his filmography. Presence wasn’t even announced until December of last year, a month before it premiered at Sundance to raves. On top of that, this isn’t even Soderbergh’s only movie releasing in 2025, with spy thriller Black Bag releasing just two months after Presence. The man’s busy, and I have to respect that.
Presence stars Lucy Liu (Kill Bill, the upcoming Red One), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems, No Sudden Move), Chris Sullivan (This is Us, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Callina Liang (the upcoming Bad Genius), Eddy Maday, and West Mulholland (Dark Harvest).
NEON will give Presence a limited release on January 17th, 2025 before expanding a week later on the 24th.
