{"id":701964,"date":"2026-06-13T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:04:14","slug":"disclosure-day-box-office-kicks-off-with-6-5m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/701964\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Disclosure Day’ Box Office Kicks Off with $6.5M in Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMore than 50 years after he helped invent the blockbuster with Jaws, Steven Spielberg<\/a> is returning to spectacle filmmaking this weekend with Disclosure Day<\/a>. The question now is if audiences will turn up in droves for the original concept he conceived of before handing script duties off to Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis UFO feature is off to a $6.5 million start from Thursday previews and is targeting around $42.5 million domestically for the feature that as made for a net $115 million budget.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film has an ensemble including Emily Blunt, Josh O\u2019Connor, Colin Firth, Coleman Domingo and Eve Hewson \u2014 but the Spielberg name is the big draw. Over the past decade, Spielberg has dabbled in dramas for adults (The Post, The Fabelmans) \u2014 and made the musical West Side Story \u2014 but has not helmed a pure popcorn flick since 2018\u2019s Ready Player One grossed $607 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe pioneered the UFO genre with the seminal 1977 feature Close Encounters of the Third Kind and returend for the 2005 Tom Cruise starrer War of the Worlds. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe feature has strong reviews, with critics giving it an 82 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Hollywood Reporter\u2018s chief film critic David Rooney writing<\/a>, \u201cThere are allegories that can be read about fear of the unknown breeding cruelty and exploitation, but\u00a0Disclosure Day\u00a0is first and foremost a propulsive yarn with thematic roots in hope, truth, empathy and perhaps even spirituality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal is opening the film, from Spielberg\u2019s Amblin, in 3,824 theaters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 50 years after he helped invent the blockbuster with Jaws, Steven Spielberg is returning to spectacle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2642,175443,88,16827],"class_list":["post-701964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-disclosure-day","tag-entertainment","tag-steven-spielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701964","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=701964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}