I knew almost nothing about Presence before I went to see it. I hadn’t seen a trailer or read a plot description or reviews. I didn’t even know who was in it! All I knew was that it was a ghost story from the ghost’s POV and that Steven Soderbergh had directed it with a script from David Koepp.
The Maddie Corman-starring drama about a familiar world falling apart will launch on Max Feb. 1 before jumping to HBO on Feb. 6.
From Presence to Ocean’s 11, Soderbergh has directed every kind of movie but none ‘as good as The Third Man’, he says. So he keeps trying.
Presence, Steven Soderbergh’s latest, is a tight 85-minute family story set in a single absolutely gorgeous foursquare suburban house. In the first scene of the film, a real estate agent (played, entertainingly,
Fun episode, lots of movies to check out here if you haven’t seen them all. Here's the elevator pitch: It's "Left, Right, and Center" meets "Siskel and Ebert." Three friends from different ideological perspectives discuss the movies and controversies (or nontroversies!
Soderbergh talks about writing a book about how to direct movies via Spielberg's 'Jaws' and remastering his entire film catalog in 4K HDR.
Koepp's writing is thorny and cuts deceptively deep, like a scrape that looks like a surface wound until it won’t stop bleeding.
The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,
André Holland's Sundance romance "Love, Brooklyn" almost never saw the light of day. The actor and producer recounted the long process of finding financing for the Black-led project from director Rachael Holder and writer Paul Zimmerman,
Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to pin down. Now, the Oscar winner is taking on a ghost story called Presence. Soderbergh spoke with CBC's Eli Glasner about the precarious state of the industry and why he won't make another Ocean's film.
Presence' writer David Koepp on the devastating reveal of who is the ghost in the house, working with Steven Soderbergh and returning to 'Jurassic World.'
The film stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, and Callina Liang, and explores themes of trauma, family dynamics, and the supernatural.