Spielberg's Disclosure Day opens to $92.9m globally
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- Disclosure Day opened to $44m domestically and $92.9m globally across 77 territories (including $7.6m from the UK and Ireland), tracking to become Spielberg's best-performing original US title, beating West Side Story's $76m and The Fabelmans' $45.6m
- Disclosure Day cost $115m to produce with an estimated $80m marketing spend; pundits estimate it needs roughly $300m to break even — a threshold Spielberg's last film to clear was 2018's Ready Player One, which took $583.5m
- China contributed only $2.95m to Disclosure Day's opening (chart entry at No. 3, more than a quarter from Imax), a sharp contrast to Ready Player One, where nearly half the final gross came from Chinese audiences
- Michael, Antoine Fuqua's Jackson biopic produced by Graham King, crossed $932m globally, surpassing Bohemian Rhapsody's $911m to become the highest-grossing music biopic ever despite what the source describes as 'considerable criticism'
- Michael is now within reach of Oppenheimer's $975m total — the all-time highest-grossing biopic — set in 2023
- Obsession (Curry Barker) reached $286m worldwide with four consecutive weekends exceeding its opening, marking distributor Focus Features' best-ever result
- Backrooms took $262m worldwide and overtook Marty Supreme in under two weeks to become A24's highest-grossing film
Why it matters: Disclosure Day's $115m production budget and the soft $2.95m China opening (compared to Ready Player One's near-half contribution) make the film's path to its estimated $300m breakeven notably harder, especially given Spielberg's last original US success was years ago. Michael clearing $932m puts the Jackson biopic within $43m of Oppenheimer's all-biopic record — a striking commercial run for a film the source says 'defied considerable criticism.'
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