Disclosure Day

Disclosure Day, opening June 12, 2026, marks Steven Spielberg's return to the science fiction genre that has defined his greatest work — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, War of the Worlds — and his first theatrical release since The Fabelmans in 2022. At 78 years old, Spielberg has delivered what early screeners and journalists are calling his best film in at least twenty years. Emily Blunt stars as a Kansas City meteorologist who inexplicably begins speaking an unknown alien language, triggering a government response and setting in motion a race against time by a whistleblower determined to bring about the titular event: the public acknowledgment of extraterrestrial contact. Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell round out the ensemble. John Williams has composed the score — his thirtieth collaboration with Spielberg — and by all accounts it is among his finest late-career work. The film carries a $115 million budget and runs 2 hours 25 minutes. It is rated PG-13. Early first reactions from Variety called it "top tier Spielberg, as exhilarating as Raiders but with the emotional texture and increased ambition of his post-9/11 work." One critic described it as an X-Files mystery laced with winks at every film in Spielberg's canon. Box office projections sit at $45 to $59 million for the domestic opening weekend — modest by summer standards but consistent with Spielberg's recent theatrical performance with prestige films. For cinephiles, this is the most personally meaningful film of the summer.