PRESENCE Trailer 2 (2025) Callina Liang, Lucy Liu

PRESENCE Trailer 2 (2025) Callina Liang, Lucy Liu

PRESENCE Trailer 2 (2025) Callina Liang, Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Steven Soderbergh, Thriller Movie
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"Will leave you gasping for air." "A spellbinding horror film." Neon has debuted a final official trailer for Steven Soderbergh's ghost story horror film Presence - following up the main official trailer released last fall. Ready to open in theaters in just a few weeks after a long wait. This originally premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival one year ago and is a chilling flip on the haunted house concept - it's a shot-in-one-location thriller about a ghost's presence inside a house. A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone. The rest of the story must not be spoiled - wait until you watch it in theaters to find out what happens next. Presence stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Julia Fox, Eddy Maday, and West Mulholland. It's a chilling, very unsettling film with a smooth camera following a ghost that drifts around this house with a not-that-scary but also very-scary (once it gets going) supernatural story involving the kids. They released three teasers before this - but this might be the scariest trailer of them all.

Here's the final trailer (+ poster) for Steven Soderbergh's horror Presence, direct from Neon's YouTube:

Presence Poster

You can rewatch the first teaser for Soderbergh's Presence right here and the second teaser / third teaser.

Intro via Sundance: "A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone... [Soderbergh] returns to Park City with a film shot entirely in one location that will haunt audiences with its otherworldly story and constantly awe-inspiring visuals. Working from a taut, mysterious script by Koepp and featuring an exciting cast of known actors & newcomers, Presence is a thrilling cinematic ride that reifies Soderbergh’s status as an icon of American independent film." Presence is directed by American producer / writer / filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, director of many films including Sex Lies & Videotape, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Che: Part 1 & 2, Contagion, Side Effects, Haywire, Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird, The Laundromat, Let Them All Talk, No Sudden Move, Kimi, and Magic Mike's Last Dance, plus TV series including "The Knick", "Mosaic", "Full Circle", and "Command Z". The screenplay is written by David Koepp (Premium Rush, Inferno, Kimi). Produced by Julie M. Anderson and Ken Meyer. This first premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Neon will release Soderbergh's Presence in select US theaters starting January 24th, 2025 coming up this month. Don't skip it. Who wants to watch?
In just under two weeks, Steven Soderbergh will flip the haunted house genre on its head with his new film Presence. After a year of waiting following its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the Oscar winner's latest is set to possess the big screen starting on January 24, and Neon has decided to release one more trailer teasing the paranormal happenings to come. Emmy nominee Lucy Liu leads the film, but the real star is the titular presence, a mysterious entity living in a suburban home unseen by the new family that moves in. However, the family can definitely feel whatever it is, and, as they try to learn more about it, they realize this being may be beyond human.

The latest footage opens with the presence roaming through the home while its new houseguests go about their lives in the background. They bring in an expert to understand the sinking feeling of another entity inhabiting their home, learning that whatever is living with them is merely curious. It's still hard to fully comprehend or connect with the feelings and actions of a presence that can't be heard or seen, which makes it all the creepier as it watches the family sleep and listens to their arguments through the walls. The toll of living such a life weighs heavily on Rebecca (Liu) and her loved ones, and the entity responds to their unraveling in kind by lashing out with more brazen hauntings that only worsen the situation. By the time the trailer ends, the family comes together at the table to acknowledge the mutual suffering and plan a solution to their horror story.

Presence continues a recent trend of inventive horror movies playing around with perspective, following Chris Nash's acclaimed In a Violent Nature shot from the perspective of a slasher villain. Like that film, which wowed viewers at Sundance's Midnight section last year, Soderbergh's film drew high marks from critics who saw it on the festival circuit. The supernatural thriller, which marked another collaboration between the director and his Kimi writer David Koepp, boasts a strong 88% Rotten Tomatoes score, with Collider's Ross Bonaime among those praising it in his 7/10 review. In addition to Liu, the cast features Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, and Callina Liang.

'Presence' Isn't Soderbergh's Only Film Coming Out in 2025

After his haunted house feature, Soderbergh has yet another film planned within the first quarter of 2025 - Black Bag. Debuting in theaters on March 14, the hotly-anticipated romantic spy thriller will feature a star-studded cast led by Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as renowned agents and a married couple who will have to weigh their future together when one of them is suspected of betraying the country. Koepp once again takes up writing duties, while the supporting cast boasts the talents of Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abelsa, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, and Pierce Brosnan.

In the meantime, Presence is set to hit theaters on Friday, January 24. Check out the new trailer above and stay tuned here at Collider for more on Soderbergh's latest films.

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Showcases a suburban house inhabited by an mysterious entity.

Release Date
January 24, 2025
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Cast
Lucy Liu , Chris Sullivan , Callina Liang , Eddy Maday , West Mulholland , Julia Fox
Runtime
85 Minutes
Writers
David Koepp
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Neon has shared the final Presence trailer for its forthcoming horror movie from Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh. Following its world premiere at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film is scheduled to arrive in theaters on January 24, 2025.

Check out the Presence final trailer below (watch more trailers):

What happens in the Presence final trailer?
The video highlights the hauntings that a family of four will experience in their new house, which will be told from the perspective of the unknown entity itself. The trailer also teases the personal problems that will occur within the family, while dealing with the entity’s tricks and eerie presence.

Presence is directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay written by David Koepp. The cast includes Lucy Liu as Rebecca, Chris Sullivan as Chris, Callina Liang as Chloe, Julia Fox as Cece, Lucas Papaelias as Carl, West Mulholland as Ryan, and Eddy Maday as Tyler. The film is executive produced by Koepp and Corey Bayes, with Julie M. Anderson and Ken Meyer producing.

“A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone,” reads the official synopsis. “It’s there before the family even moves in. It witnesses the family’s most intimate uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed. It pays unusual attention to Chloe, 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.”
Presence

Official release poster
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by David Koepp
Produced by
Julie M. Anderson
Ken Meyer
Starring
Lucy Liu
Julia Fox
Chris Sullivan
Cinematography Steven Soderbergh
Edited by Steven Soderbergh
Music by Zack Ryan[1]
Production
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Distributed by Neon
Release dates
January 19, 2024 (Sundance)
January 24, 2025 (United States)
Running time 85 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Presence is a 2024 American horror film[3] directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp. It stars Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, and Chris Sullivan. It is scheduled to be released by Neon on January 24, 2025.

Premise
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone.[4]

Cast
Lucy Liu as Rebecca
Julia Fox as Cece
Chris Sullivan as Chris
Callina Liang as Chloe
Lucas Papaelias as Carl
West Mulholland as Ryan
Eddy Maday as Tyler
Production
The film, written by David Koepp and directed by Steven Soderbergh, was not announced publicly until December 2023 when it was revealed to be part of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.[5] Principal photography took place in late 2023 with an interim SAG-AFTRA agreement from the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.[citation needed] The film is shot entirely in the first-person perspective,[6] and was filmed in Cranford, New Jersey.[7]

Release
The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024.[8] Shortly after, Neon acquired distribution rights to the film for $5 million.[9] It is scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States on January 24, 2025.[10]

Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 57 critics' reviews are adjudged as being positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "A slow-burning spectral thriller, Presence reaffirms that Soderbergh plays with form as deftly as he flits between genres."[11]

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favourable" reviews.[12]

References
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"Presence". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
"Presence". TIFF. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
Sperling, Nicole (December 6, 2023). "Sundance Lineup Features a Steven Soderbergh Film and a Sasquatch Family". The New York Times. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
Perez, Rodrigo (December 6, 2023). "Steven Soderbergh's Secret New Sundance Film 'Presence' Starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox & More". The Playlist. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
Rizov, Vadim (January 21, 2024). "Sundance 2024: Presence, A Real Pain". Filmmaker. Retrieved April 15, 2024.
"Projects Filmed in NJ Set to Appear at Sundance Film Festival". New Jersey Economic Development Authority (Press release). January 18, 2024. Retrieved May 16, 2024.
D'Alessandro, Anthony; Patten, Dominic (December 6, 2023). "Sundance Unveils Packed 2024 Lineup That Includes A.I., Pedro Pascal, Kristen Stewart, Satan, Devo & Steven Yeun". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
Fleming, Mike Jr. (January 23, 2024). "Sundance Stalwart Steven Soderbergh's New Thriller 'Presence' Selling To Neon; Lucy Liu Stars In David Koepp-Scripted Pic After Park City Premiere". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
Murphy, J. Kim (October 31, 2024). "'Presence' Trailer: A Ghost Is the Camera's POV and Haunts a Family in Steven Soderbergh's Eerie Horror Movie". Variety. Retrieved December 22, 2024 – via YouTube.
"Presence". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
"Presence". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved January 22, 2024.
External links
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