Not to be confused with The Age of Disclosure.

Disclosure Day
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Screenplay by David Koepp
Story by Steven Spielberg
Produced by
  • Kristie Macosko Krieger
  • Steven Spielberg
Starring
  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O'Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Eve Hewson
  • Colman Domingo
Cinematography Janusz Kamiński
Edited by Sarah Broshar
Music by John Williams
Production
companies
  • Universal Pictures[1]
  • Amblin Entertainment[1]
Distributed by Universal Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • June 2, 2026 (2026-06-02) (Le Grand Rex)
  • June 12, 2026 (2026-06-12) (United States)
Running time
145 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $115 million[3]
Box office $34.1 million[4][5]

Disclosure Day is a 2026 American science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by Spielberg. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo.

In April 2024, it was reported that Spielberg's next project would be a UFO film, with Koepp writing the screenplay. Within the next few months, Universal Pictures was announced as distributor and Blunt was cast in the lead role. Filming took place from February to May 2025 in Atlanta, New Jersey, and New York. John Williams composed the film's score, returning from his previous collaborations with Spielberg.

Disclosure Day premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on June 2, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 12. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $34.1 million worldwide.

Plot

As the world stands poised on the brink of World War III, cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner steals a piece of extraterrestrial technology and related files detailing various events of human-alien contact dating back to the Roswell incident from the Wardex Corporation, a secret arm of the U.S. government. Wardex CEO Noah Scanlon discovers the theft and has Daniel branded as a foreign spy, making him the target of federal authorities; Daniel goes into hiding at a convent with his girlfriend, Jane Blankenship.

In Kansas City, television meteorologist Margaret Fairchild is preparing for work when a cardinal flies into her home, briefly observes her, and then flies away. The incident awakens latent psychic abilities, allowing Margaret to intuitively understand the thoughts and emotions of others and unconsciously communicate in languages she has never learned. During a live weather broadcast, Margaret unexpectedly begins speaking in an unknown language. Footage of the broadcast goes viral and draws the attention of Wardex, which identifies the language as extraterrestrial in origin. After being hospitalized and nearly getting captured by Scanlon's agents, Margaret also goes into hiding.

Daniel reveals the stolen files to Jane, explaining Wardex has been experimenting on alien captives and reverse engineering their technology, and states his intention to make the information public. Through an alien device that grants him telepathic capabilities, Scanlon forms a psychic bond with Jane and uses it to track them to a hotel. Jane escapes with another alien device, also stolen by Daniel, but Daniel is captured. Meanwhile, as her abilities develop, Margaret receives visions of Daniel and follows them to a black site where he is being held. They escape when Margaret learns how to use her abilities to empathetically influence their pursuers into standing down. One of Scanlon’s unaffected men, Casper Boyd, intentionally rams their car into the side of a passing train. Daniel pulls Margaret out in time for them to climb onto the train and make their way to safety.

Margaret and Daniel are rescued by a team of Wardex employees who have become whistleblowers. Their leader, Hugo Wakefield, who has been working with Daniel, shelters them in a warehouse containing a reconstruction of Margaret's childhood home and encourages her to recover suppressed memories connected to the extraterrestrial phenomenon. Inside, Margaret remembers that she and Daniel were abducted by extraterrestrials as children and subjected to experiments that gave them their powers. She also learns that the unusual animals that have appeared throughout their lives are extraterrestrials, assuming harmless forms to observe them.

Margaret and Daniel, accompanied by the whistleblowers, break into the former's television studio to make a public broadcast they call "Disclosure Day". Scanlon and his team attempt to stop them, disabling the power grid and the station's backup generator, but Jane arrives and gives her device to Margaret, who uses it to restore the power. Defeated, Scanlon decides to watch instead of continuing to stop them, and Boyd leaves in anger. The transmission reveals to the stunned world historical evidence of alien encounters and the ensuing government cover-ups. As the broadcast reaches a global audience, halting the imminent war, the whistleblowers reveal one of the extraterrestrials, whom they freed. The alien privately communicates a message to Daniel, who relays it to Margaret. With the world watching, Margaret prepares to deliver the message, saying, "Listen."

Cast

  • Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City TV meteorologist and former journalist[6]
    • Delaney Cuthbert as young Margaret[7]
  • Josh O'Connor as Dr. Daniel Kellner, a young cybersecurity expert and whistleblower[6]
    • Tyler Renaud as young Daniel[7]
  • Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon, the head of the Wardex corporation[6]
  • Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship, a former nun and Daniel's girlfriend[6]
  • Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield, a Wardex defector and advocate for disclosure[6]
  • Wyatt Russell as Jackson, Margaret's boyfriend[8]
  • Henry Lloyd-Hughes as Casper Boyd, Scanlon's head-of-security[9]
  • Elizabeth Marvel as Sister Maura,[10] the Abbess of the Monastery of St. Clare of the Dawn
  • Hettienne Park as Serena, a senior Wardex agent
  • Tommy Martinez as Dave Santiago,[11] an associate of Wakefield
  • Gabby Beans as Angela Childs,[12] a Wardex analyst
  • Jeremy Shamos as Claypool
  • Brandon Wilson as Nathan Twinning, a Wardex defector and associate of Hugo
  • Revon Yousif as Reza, a Wardex agent
  • Elliot Villar as Diaz,[13] a Wardex agent
  • Noah Robbins as Munsey,[11] a Wardex agent
  • Michael Gaston as General Dobbs,[14] the Wardex military liaison

Additionally, Lance Hoyt, Brian Cage, and Chavo Guerrero Jr. cameo as the red wrestler, the blue wrestler, and the wrestling referee, respectively.[15] Patricia Conolly appears uncredited as Ruth.[11]

Production

The film marks the fifth collaboration between director Steven Spielberg (left) and screenwriter David Koepp

Development

In the summer of 2023, Steven Spielberg spent two months writing a 50-60 page story outline that would serve as the basis of Disclosure Day.[16] Spielberg was inspired by the 2017 article "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program", published in The New York Times, which he described as having rekindled his interest in the subject.[17] In April 2024, it was publicly announced that Spielberg's next directing project would be a UFO film based on his own original idea, with David Koepp, who had previously collaborated with Spielberg on multiple films, writing the screenplay from Spielberg's original story.[18]

After receiving the initial treatment from Spielberg via email, Koepp would develop forty-two drafts for the film's screenplay, the most of his career.[19] On collaborating with Spielberg, Koepp went on to say: "It's something he had carried around in his head for decades. So in the beginning, I felt a particular obligation to not fuck it up. But then over drafts, it became my story too. At first, you're always trying to be deferential to where the idea comes from. With Jurassic Park, I'm trying to respect the book as much as possible; War of the Worlds, same thing; Indiana Jones? Talk about deferential. That was a hard one. But in this, I'm helping this guy tell his story, even as it grew into my story too."[20]

In May 2024, Universal Pictures was announced as the film's distributor.[21] The following month, Emily Blunt was cast in the lead role.[22] From August to December, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Josh O'Connor, and Wyatt Russell joined the cast.[a] This project marks the third film Spielberg had cast Domingo in and the second film he had cast Hewson and Elizabeth Marvel in.[28][29] In addition to Domingo, Hewson and Marvel, many of the core cast (including Blunt, Firth, O'Connor, and Henry Lloyd-Hughes) were offered their roles without having to audition.[30][31][32]

In March 2025, it was revealed that Paul Tazewell would serve as costume designer, in his second collaboration with Spielberg following West Side Story (2021).[33]

Filming

Principal photography began on February 26, 2025, in Atlanta, Huntington, New Jersey, and New York City under the title Non-View.[8] A casting call for Long Island-based background actors to play "wrestling fans" for a scene to be shot on March 4, 2025, was issued on January 16, 2025.[34][35][36] Subsequent casting calls in March 2025 sought background talent in the Hudson Valley area of New York state and the Middlesex County area of New Jersey; the Middlesex County casting call exclusively requested participants who could drive their own vehicles in the film, while the Hudson Valley casting call also requested actors to play diner patrons and hotel guests.[37][38] Additional casting calls sought actors to play North Korean soldiers.[39]

Filming was also conducted in March 2025 on the Cape May Seashore Lines railroad in southern New Jersey.[40] In early April, filming took place in the McGinley Square neighborhood of Jersey City.[39] In June, Koepp confirmed production on the film had wrapped in late May.[41]

For the scene where Margaret speaks an alien language while on-camera, Blunt was told her dialogue would be enhanced using AI post-processing techniques; instead, she used her vocal training to create a distinct set of vocalizations and performed them in a single four-minute long take.[42]

Cinematography

Longtime Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kamiński served as cinematographer, filming the project predominately on 35 mm film using Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2 cameras equipped with C and T series anamorphic format lenses for a 2.39:1 aspect ratio.[43] Certain handled low light scenes were filmed using the digital Sony CineAlta Venice 2 camera.[43]

Visual effects

The visual effects were developed by Digital Domain, Storm Studios, and Wētā FX, overseen by production visual effects supervisors Matthew E. Butler and Joel Behrens, and production visual effects producer Lauren Ritchie.[44]

Soundtrack

In October 2025, it was revealed that John Williams had been hired to compose the score for the film, his thirtieth collaboration with Spielberg.[45]

Back Lot Music released the official soundtrack album, which was released digitally on June 12, 2026, while Waxwork Records released the physical editions.[46]

In June 2026, discussing Williams' method for Disclosure Day and how his score would be experienced in the film, Spielberg revealed that Williams said, "This time I'm going to write music not to lead the film, I'm going to write music under the film to give it the slight nudge forward." The director pointed to Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Indiana Jones as a benchmark for Williams' more "symphonic", theme-driven style. "This is more subtle, but it's still pure John Williams genius," he concluded.[47]

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Williams.

No. Title Length
1. "listen..." 4:08
2. "memory..." 4:07
3. "dive..." 4:37
4. "chase..." 2:14
5. "believe..." 3:35
6. "in vivo..." 2:49
7. "negotiation..." 3:25
8. "empathy..." 2:24
9. "celestial..." 6:50
10. "unseen..." 3:09
11. "kcxe..." 5:56
12. "signs..." 2:37
13. "home..." 3:37
14. "caught..." 5:56
15. "disclosure..." 4:22
16. "reprise..." 4:54
Total length: 1:04:40

Marketing

The marketing for Disclosure Day cost about $80 million.[48] According to Spielberg, the entire third act of the film was kept out of the marketing.[49]

On December 10, 2025, billboards appeared in multiple cities, including Los Angeles and New York City, that featured an image of an upside down eye framed within the silhouette of a bird, teasing the then-untitled film with the tagline "ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED. SPIELBERG. 06.12.26".[50] Six days later, the title of the film was revealed with the release of the teaser trailer before screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash.[51][52][53]

On February 8, 2026, during Super Bowl LX, a TV spot for the film aired with new footage.[53] The theatrical poster and official trailer were released the following month on March 12.[54] In April, extended footage was shown during the Universal Pictures presentation at CinemaCon.[55] The final trailer and IMAX poster were released on May 27.[56] Filmed at Citi Field, professional baseball shortstop Francisco Lindor appeared as himself in a 30-second TV spot for the film that premiered on June 4.[57]

Release

Originally set to be released on May 15, 2026,[21] Disclosure Day had its world premiere at Le Grand Rex in Paris on June 2, 2026,[58] followed by the British premiere at Cineworld in Leicester Square, London on June 4,[59] and the American premiere at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City on June 8.[60]

The film opened theatrically in IMAX in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2026,[61] and released in the United States on June 12.[62] It also received a limited release on 70 mm film prints blown up from the native 35 mm print, in addition to other premium large formats.[43]

Reception

Box office

As of June 13, 2026, Disclosure Day has grossed $25.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $8.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $34.1 million.[4][5]

By May 29, 2026, prior to the film's release in the United States and Canada, Boxoffice Pro projected an opening weekend of $40–50 million.[63] On June 10, Deadline Hollywood projected an opening weekend of around $65 million worldwide.[64] A report by Puck estimated that Disclosure Day will need to cross the $300 million mark to break even at the box office.[3]

The film made $6.5 million during Thursday previews in the United States,[65] the most for a Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment original film.[66]

Critical response

Emily Blunt's performance received acclaim, with many critics calling it the best of her career.[67]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 288 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg's most revisited themes, Disclosure Day's breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt."[68] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 74 out of 100, based on 61 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[69] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, with PostTrak reporting that 61% of audiences say they would "definitely recommend" it.[66]

The film received praise for Spielberg's direction, Blunt's performance, Williams' musical score, storytelling, and visuals.[70] Deadline Hollywood's Pete Hammond praised the film, writing that it "has so much more on its mind than just to entertain" and Spielberg "hasn't lost his own sense of wonder".[71] Writing for Gizmodo, Germain Lussier called it a "sci-fi spectacle" in which Spielberg "puts the audience in the palm of his hand and takes us on an emotionally charged ride filled with mystery, excitement, spectacle, and meaning".[72] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a B+ grade, writing that it "might be pitched as a spiritual sequel to Close Encounters, but the movie itself—typically earnest and fantastic entertainment, as fluid in its direction as it can be clumsy with its ideas—is in far more immediate conversation with Spielberg's recent films".[73] The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney called it "spellbinding" and "an essential addition to Spielberg's rich body of work", while also highly praising Blunt's performance as "simply breathtaking and never more magnetic".[1]

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gave the film four out of five stars, writing that it is "never anything other than entertaining and grade-A fun; rare enough in the movies or anywhere else, rocketing along with barnstorming set-pieces, exhilarating chases, funny lines and a career-topper of a performance from Blunt".[74] Owen Gleiberman of Variety called it a "vigorous and diverting ride", but felt that Spielberg "seems to be not so much leading as following the decades of lore and mythology—and gobbledygook" as the film does not reach "the contact high of awe that Close Encounters did".[75] Francesca Steele of The i Paper lauded Blunt's performance and described Disclosure Day as a "giant, glorious blockbuster with a huge heart: despite its bleak outlook on global self-interest poisoning contemporary politics, it's deeply embedded with a very Spielbergian hopefulness for human empathy".[76]

In a negative review, The Telegraph's Robbie Collin deemed the film "unquestionably a big swing" that "only glancingly connects", finding the plot "woolly and the tone a bungled mix of solemn and silly".[77] For the BBC, Nicholas Barber also gave it a negative review, calling it "a flimsy, outdated car-chase thriller with no ideas about aliens that we haven't heard before".[78] Amy Nicholson of the Los Angeles Times criticized the visual effects, writing, "The CG animals and aliens look stiff, other than a nifty close-up of an eyeball."[79]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Golden Trailer Awards May 28, 2026 Best Teaser "Know" (Universal Pictures / Buddha Jones) Nominated [80]
[81]
Best Fantasy/Adventure "World" (Universal Pictures / Buddha Jones) Nominated
Best Summer 2026 Blockbuster Trailer "Know" (Universal Pictures / Buddha Jones) Won

See also

  • List of films featuring extraterrestrials
  • The Age of Disclosure, a 2025 American UFO documentary film
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a 1982 Spielberg film featuring extraterrestrials and UFOs

Notes

  1. ^ Attributed to multiple references:[23][24][25][26][27]

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