Neon on Wednesday rolled out the first teaser for Presence, the psychological thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, which the company snapped up out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Slated for release on January 17, the film watches as a family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone, but rather surrounded by a mysterious entity. It’s there before the family even moves in. It witnesses the family’s most intimate and uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed. It pays unusual attention to Chloe (Callina Liang), the teenage girl who’s neither her mother’s nor her brother’s favorite. It wants — no, it needs — something. And as time goes on, the presence pieces together how it might accomplish its goal. The movie grew out of an idea that Soderbergh had about the house where he lived: Rumor is a daughter killed her mother in the house.
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Written by David Koepp, the film also stars Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday and West Mulholland. Julie M. Anderson and Ken Meyer served as its producers.
Most recently helming titles like Magic Mike’s Last Dance and Kimi, while completing work on the shows Command Z and Full Circle, Soderbergh’s next feature project is Black Bag, a spy thriller also scripted by Koepp for Focus Features, in which Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star.
Coming off its biggest release to date with the Nicolas Cage-Maika Monroe horror pic Longlegs, which has thus far grossed over $79M worldwide off of strong word of mouth, Neon is next set to release the horror thriller Cuckoo, starring Dan Stevens and Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, on August 9. Other upcoming titles from the company include the Jazmin Jones doc Seeking Mavis Beacon (August 30), Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora (October 18) starring Mikey Madison, and Stephen King adaptation The Monkey (February 21, 2025) from Longlegs helmer Osgood Perkins.
Check out the trailer for Presence above.