{"id":2095836,"date":"2025-10-16T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2095836"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:48:08","slug":"steven-soderberghs-the-christophers-sells-to-neon-sets-2026-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steven-soderberghs-the-christophers-sells-to-neon-sets-2026-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Soderbergh\u2019s \u2018The Christophers\u2019 Sells to Neon, Sets 2026 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2082923\/\">Neon<\/a> has acquired worldwide rights to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001752\/\">Steven Soderbergh<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34966562\/\">The Christophers<\/a>\u201d and plans to debut the film theatrically in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>An exact release date has not been set. This marks the second collaboration between Soderbergh and Neon after \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28249919\/\">Presence<\/a>,\u201d a psychological thriller that debuted earlier this year. Soderbergh is also known for \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0240772\/\">Ocean\u2019s 11<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1598778\/\">Contagion<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004777\/\">Erin Brockovich<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0181865\/\">Traffic<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098724\/\">Sex, Lies and Videotape<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His latest directorial effort, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34966562\/\">The Christophers<\/a>,\u201d stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005212\/\">Ian McKellen<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3948190\/\">Michaela Coel<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2934977\/\">Jessica Gunning<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0179479\/\">James Corden<\/a>. McKellen plays aging artist Julian Sklar who hasn\u2019t painted in decades and has been broke for years. His two estranged children (Corden and Gunning), desperate for his inheritance, hire an art forger (Coel) to complete a key project from his past.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34966562\/\">The Christophers<\/a>\u201d debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, with Variety\u2019s chief film critic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4748108\/\">Peter Debruge<\/a> describing the story as a \u201ccrackling original drama\u201d and praising&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon has acquired worldwide rights to Steven Soderbergh\u2019s \u201cThe Christophers\u201d and plans to debut the film theatrically in 2026. An exact release date has not been set. This marks the second collaboration between Soderbergh and Neon after \u201cPresence,\u201d a psychological thriller that debuted earlier this year. Soderbergh is also known for \u201cOcean\u2019s 11,\u201d \u201cContagion,\u201d \u201cErin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2095836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Steven-Soderberghs-\u2018The-Christophers-Sells-to-Neon-Sets-2026-Release.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095838,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095836\/revisions\/2095838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}