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Box Office: 'Disclosure Day' Invades Globe With $93M WW Opening - Deadline Emily Blunt is Margaret Fairchild and Josh O'Connor is Dr. Daniel Kellner in 'Disclosure Day' Universal SUNDAY AM WRITE THROUGH: International delivered for Universal and Amblin ‘s Steven Spielberg alien sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day , with the pic earning $48.8M in 73 territories, over indexing in English speaking and Latin American territories where the phenomenon of ‘We are not alone’ really sticks. Together with a $44M North American start, the global bow is at $92.8M at 25,685 screens. Asian markets were softer; typically faster paced and effects driven Hollywood movies faring better in those territories. All of this makes Disclosure Day , far and away the No. 1 movie at the global B.O. this weekend ahead of Focus Features’ highest grossing movie ever Obsession ( $34.1M WW from 60 territories, $286.4M WW cume), Lionsgate’s Michael ( $21.6M WW from 86 territories, $932.2M WW fueled by a Japan opening of $6.7M, the biggest opening for a live-action Hollywood movie there this year and the biggest opening for a musical biopic), and Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu ( $11.8M WW from 72 markets, $315.1M WW cum…

Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' opens No. 1, while 'Obsession ... Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK (AP) — Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day,” billed as his first popcorn movie in years, launched with $44 million in domestic theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Disclosure Day” opened largely as expected, collecting $92.9 million worldwide over its first weekend. That was good enough to give the 79-year-old Spielberg, who conceived the film's story, his best opening weekend for an original movie, not accounting to inflation. Of course, Spielberg is the father of the modern blockbuster. But “Disclosure Day,” released by Universal Pictures, is his first summer movie in 10 years. And it opened in a much different movie world than once greeted “Jaws” or “Jurassic Park.” Its closest competition was the indie horror hit “Obsession,” directed by a YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, Curry Barker, more than 50 years Spielberg’s junior. “It played very, very evenly across all of the U.S. and Canada,” said Jim Orr, distribution chief for Universal. “It did not come across as a coastal big-market movie. It res…

Disclosure Day review - Spielberg's alien movie is funny and ... At age 79, Steven Spielberg has lost none of his sense of wonder. But it can feel like, in his return to the extraterrestrial after two decades away , he’s talking to himself when a character in Disclosure Day remarks: “I think you lost your faith in people”. Spielberg has dubbed this film his closing instalment of a trilogy begun by Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). But it also feels surprisingly affected by the voracious self-reflection he pursued in his last, and semi-autobiographical, movie The Fabelmans (2022), and its conclusion that the camera is the ultimate weapon of truth, even if that truth may be hard for us to swallow. Yes, this is exquisitely woven, capital “E” entertainment, that’s funny and unabashedly sentimental in all the ways we expect Spielberg to be, with a particular action sequence primed to steal the breath out of your lungs. But he’s grown older; so has much of his audience. And faith, in its broadest terms – in people, in an existence beyond what we see before us, in the idea we can ameliorate humanity by embracing uncertainty – is harder won now…

'Disclosure Day': Spielberg's latest extra-terrestrial exploit Superstar director Steven Spielberg has returned to his first love – aliens – for the blockbuster of the summer. Film critic Emma Jones tells us why "Disclosure Day" is a timely, entertaining and funny movie, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo.

Review: Disclosure Day is big on action, light on ideas Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The summer blockbuster season has kicked off in earnest with the theatrical release of Disclosure Day , director Steven Spielberg’s highly anticipated return to his “aliens are among us” sci-fi roots. Verdict: there’s not much fresh or original here as movies about aliens go, but it’s a fast-paced film with a luminous performance by Emily Blunt that won’t fail to entertain. (Some spoilers below but no major reveals.) The first half of the film is essentially a political thriller—shades of 1974’s The Parallax View and similar films—as global tensions have the world teetering on the brink of World War III. A cybersecurity specialist named Daniel (Josh O’Connor) has stolen a piece of alien technology and highly classified files from his employer, Wardex Corporation, a top-secret extension of the US government led by Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth). Scanlon flushes out Daniel by holding his girlfriend Jane (Eve Hewson) hostage. At the tradeoff, Daniel double-crosses them and escapes with …

Disclosure Day: Spielberg's movie is the career capper on a lifelong ... Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Universal Studios. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment This article is part of Spielberg Week , Slate’s seven-day celebration of Steven Spielberg. At my press screening of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day , the logo of Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment—the famous image from E.T. of a child on a bicycle in silhouette against a full moon, the swaddled space traveler of the title peering from the bike’s basket—earned a smattering of anticipatory applause. The spontaneous clapping showed the affection and esteem with which Spielberg is regarded by cinephiles, sure. But that nostalgic image of boy, bike, and moon also served as a reminder of just how long Spielberg has been circling around this particular thematic fixation. Forty-four years after he imagined the friendship between a suburban grade-schooler and a stranded alien, here was the now-79-year-old filmmaker again taking a crack at a story in which humanity learns for the first time that we are not alone. As a matter of fact, E.T. represented not the beginning but merely one e…

Disclosure Day: Steven Spielberg's aliens movies have always been about ... Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment This article is part of Spielberg Week , Slate’s seven-day celebration of Steven Spielberg. It is some sort of wild blessing that Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest movie directors the world has ever produced, is also a bona fide UFO nerd. If you’ve been deep in the weeds of contemporary UFO conversations, the details and allusions that pepper Spielberg’s new movie Disclosure Day will seem somewhat miraculous. It’s as though the director of Jaws and Saving Private Ryan has been watching all the same YouTube documentaries you have. Maybe he has. Spielberg was born in 1946. The first stories about “flying saucers” broke into the American media in 1947. Americans of his generation grew up swimming in a sea of movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still and 2001: A Space Odyssey , but according to his friends, it was Spielberg who memorized the plot of the 1956 alien epic Forbidden Planet . Lots of Americans glanced into the sky after hearing news reports about flying lig…

'Disclosure Day' First Reactions: Praise for Spielberg and ... - Variety May 27, 2026 4:23pm PT ‘Disclosure Day’ First Reactions Call Steven Spielberg’s Sci-Fi Epic ‘His Best Film in 20 Years’ and Praise Emily Blunt’s ‘All-Time’ Performance By Arushi Jacob Plus Icon Arushi Jacob Latest ‘Every Year After’ Boss Breaks Down Why It’s Not a Love Triangle, Changes From the Book’s Sam and Percy, and Charlie’s Fate in Season 2 3 hours ago Jennifer Lopez Says Oscar Winner ‘Nomadland’ Is Her ‘Worst Type of Film’ Because It’s a ‘Slow-Moving Thing About Grief and There’s No Escapism’ 5 hours ago Alliance of Women Directors and Starz Reveal Creative Leadership Lab’s Inaugural Class Designed to Support Female TV Directors (EXCLUSIVE) 9 hours ago See All ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Steven Spielberg ‘s “ Disclosure Day ” has been unveiled to members of the film press ahead of its June 12 release date, and first reactions are calling the sci-fi UFO-focused movie “Spielberg’s best film in 20 years,” with high praise for star Emily Blunt . Gizmodo senior entertainment reporter Germain Lussier took to X to share his reaction, writing, “I loved ‘Disclosure Day.’ A dense roller coaster ride …

Box Office: Disclosure Day Heading to Solid Opening, Obsession No. 2 Emily Blunt in 'Disclosure Day.' Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text The original summer movie filmmaker met the new generation of directors this weekend, with Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day entering the fray amid a summer dominated by Gen Z hits Obsession and Backrooms . Spielberg’s $115 million budgeted UFO will land at around $44 million domestically and $93.9 million globally this weekend, a solid start for the filmmaker’s first popcorn movie in eight years, since he released Ready Player One to $53.7 million in North America on its way to $583.5 million globally. It will become Spielberg’s top-grossing opening weekend domestically for an original feature, as well as his company Amblin’s biggest original opening. Related Stories Movies 'Disclosure Day' Beams Up $6.5M in Previews Movies Winners & Losers: 'Social Reckoning' Trailer Misfires, Emily Blunt Saves 'Disc…

In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Replays the Hits - The New Yorker Save this story Save this story Save this story Save this story It’s been nearly four years since we’ve had a new Steven Spielberg picture—an unusually long, but understandable, wait. Spielberg, though as nimble an entertainer as we’ve got, will turn eighty this December, and the halcyon overachieving years of “Jurassic Park” and “Schindler’s List” (1993), “Minority Report” and “Catch Me If You Can” (2002), and “War of the Worlds” and “Munich” (2005) seem far behind him. His most recent feature, “The Fabelmans” (2022), was the kind of piercingly confessional work that might have put a lesser filmmaker out to pasture (not that a lesser filmmaker could have made “The Fabelmans”). After digging deep into his formative memories—chief among them his childhood surrender to the movies, which would define him, and which he would forever redefine—where, exactly, could Spielberg go next? The opening scenes of his new blockbuster, “Disclosure Day,” offer up a hilarious answer: a pro-wrestling match, of course, for a rejuvenating dose of adrenaline. It’s a more pummelling kind of Spielberg spectacle than we’re used to, an…