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‘Black Bag’ Director Steven Soderbergh Wants Hollywood to Put More ‘Movies for Grown-Ups’ in Theaters

Steven Soderbergh explains the making of Black Bag and talks about the state of "adult dramas" in theaters and Ocean's 14.

One of those was “Black Bag.” Soderbergh didn’t spark to the concept, instead choosing to focus on “Presence,” a ghost story that premiered at Sundance in 2024 and was released by Neon earlier this year. While that was half of what “Magic Mike XXL” made in 2015, Soderbergh noted the changed environment with streaming meant “Last Dance” performed appropriately. “And then we had this great opportunity to fill the gallery with some other people that either I’ve been tracking or, in the case of Naomie [Harris], I was already in conversations with her about another project that I wanted her to do and then this came up and I said, ‘Oh can we talk about this and we’ll get to the other one later?’”

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