Spielberg's Disclosure Day Hits Theaters June 12
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- Disclosure Day will release in theaters June 12, 2026, pushed back from its original May 15, 2026 date, with Steven Spielberg directing for Universal and his first feature since the semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans (2022).
- Emily Blunt stars as a weather woman overcome by an unseen force who begins making clicking sounds on live TV, Josh O'Connor plays a man with access to classified UFO intelligence, and Colin Firth portrays a figure trying to prevent disclosure — with Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson rounding out the cast.
- The plot centers on a race to disclose or suppress government knowledge of extraterrestrial life, with animals and nuns appearing aware of the phenomenon — a return to the alien sci-fi genre Spielberg defined with E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
- Spielberg conceived the story with longtime collaborator David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay; Kristie Macosko Krieger produces with Spielberg under the Amblin Entertainment banner.
- John Williams composed the score, extending a collaboration that includes Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, and the Indiana Jones films.
- The untitled project was first announced in May 2024 and claimed the release date previously held by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's next film, which had first cast Ryan Gosling and then Matt Damon; that Daniels project remains in development.
- Four trailers have dropped since the title reveal in December 2025, with the final one featuring Spielberg himself saying: 'I am much more inclined now than when I made Close Encounters to say that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe.'
Why it matters: Spielberg returns to the alien sci-fi genre that made his career — his first such project since E.T. in 1982 — staking Universal's June 12 summer slot on a UFO-disclosure thriller scored by his decades-long collaborator John Williams. The premise reframes government UFO secrecy as a race-to-expose thriller, and Spielberg's own on-camera shift from Close Encounters-era skepticism to stated openness about extraterrestrial life is the marketing hook.
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