2017 report<\/a> in the New York Times on a secret Pentagon program to investigate these mysterious sightings. <\/p>\n\n\t\u201cThe world became more accepting of the fact that we probably are not alone,\u201d Spielberg said. The director\u2019s certainty that intelligent life is out there has only grown in the nearly 50 years between the release of \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u201d and \u201cDisclosure Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI believe this movie is going to answer questions and this movie is going to cause a lot of people to ask a lot of questions,\u201d Spielberg said. \u201cAll you need to get from beginning to end is a seat belt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\n\tThere was lots of that Spielbergian sweep on display in the footage that he presented on Wednesday. Blunt and O\u2019Connor crash through a farm house while evading government agents and later climb onto a speeding train. As for the aliens, they are glimpsed fleetingly. A ship (is it a flying saucer?) starts to materialize out of an ink-black sky; a hand that is definitely not human reaches up to caress a face. But do they come in peace? <\/p>\n
\n\tAt CinemaCon, Motion Picture Association CEO Charlie Rivkin presented a visibly emotional Spielberg with a \u201cone-time honor, the America 250 award,\u201d which was followed by a conversation between Domingo and his \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d director. It marks Spielberg\u2019s first visit to the exhibition industry trade show. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI promise you this will not be my last,\u201d Spielberg promised after receiving a standing ovation.<\/p>\n
\n\tSpielberg wasn\u2019t just in promotional mode. He came with advice about how to sustain an art form he loves. That started with a plea to keep movies in theaters longer before debuting them on home entertainment platforms. To that end, he praised Universal, the studio behind \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d for its recent decision to increase the number of days its films are in cinemas from as few as 17 to 45.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAudiences will find what they want to watch, whether the films are big or small, but studios need to help us by greatly expanding the exclusive windows like [Universal Entertainment chief] Donna Langley just did,\u201d Spielberg said to loud applause. \u201cToday I\u2019ve got to be greedy. Do I hear 60 days? Do I hear 120 days?\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSpielberg stressed that studios like Universal need to keep investing in original films like \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d instead of reboots, sequels and spinoffs. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIf all we make is known, branded IP, we\u2019re going to run out of gas,\u201d Spielberg said. \u201cThere is nothing more important than giving the audience visual stories, and they can be in any form, but we need to tell more original stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBut will \u201cDisclosure Day\u201d prove that audiences want something new and different or will it struggle to draw crowds to a movie that isn\u2019t based on a comic book or a video game? We\u2019ll find out if Spielberg is right when it opens on June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re here. Steven Spielberg premiered a new trailer at CinemaCon on Wednesday for \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d his return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,232746,175443,88,16827],"class_list":{"0":"post-587092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cinemacon","10":"tag-disclosure-day","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-steven-spielberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}