Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' launches with $90 million global opening

Director Steven Spielberg returns after a four‑year hiatus with the sci‑fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” projected to earn more than $90 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The film stars Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo and Emily Blunt and imagines a world where a government agency has concealed decades‑long contact with extraterrestrials.

Spielberg has long championed the idea of alien life, having funded research and discussed UFOs with U.S. presidents. “Disclosure Day” arrives as the U.S. Department of Defense released a third tranche of declassified UFO files, fueling public speculation. The movie continues Spielberg’s legacy of portraying alien encounters positively—a shift first seen in his 1977 classic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”