• The final trailer for Disclosure Day — Steven Spielberg’s first sci-fi film in eight years — dropped Thursday, and Spielberg himself narrates it, saying: "I am much more inclined now than I was when I made Close Encounters to really believe that we’re not the only intelligent civilization in the universe"
• Early critic screenings are generating significant buzz: Collider’s Steve Weintraub called it "another towering home run," adding that Emily Blunt is "incredible" and the film could factor into awards season
• The film stars Emily Blunt as Margaret, a Kansas City weather anchor whose eyes are opened by a strange experience on live television, and Josh O’Connor as Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity expert turned government whistleblower threatening to release proof of alien life
• The cast also includes Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Eve Hewson; the screenplay is by David Koepp, who previously wrote Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for Spielberg; John Williams is scoring
• Disclosure Day opens in theaters June 12 from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment; fans are already speculating it may be a secret sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg has been quiet on the sci-fi front for eight years. That ends June 12.

Universal Pictures dropped the final trailer for Disclosure Day on Thursday, and it comes with something unexpected: Spielberg himself on camera, speaking directly to the audience. "I am much more inclined now than I was when I made Close Encounters to really believe that we’re not the only intelligent civilization in the universe," he says, before the film’s footage takes over.

The premise follows Daniel Kellner — played by Josh O’Connor — a cybersecurity expert who has stolen long-held government secrets about proof of living beings not from Earth and threatens to release them to the public. Emily Blunt plays Margaret, a Kansas City weather anchor who gets drawn into the story after something strange happens to her on live television. The official synopsis frames it simply: "If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day."

The final trailer is the first to show the aliens directly — previous trailers leaned into mystery and suggestion. What’s on screen, per ComingSoon, confirms Spielberg is "ready to fully lean into the extraterrestrial aspect."

The Early Reactions

Critics who’ve seen the film early are not being quiet about it. "In a shock to absolutely no one, Steven Spielberg has delivered another towering home run with Disclosure Day," Collider’s Steve Weintraub wrote. "I could go on and on about what I loved, but I was lucky enough to see the movie knowing almost nothing, and I strongly recommend you do the same. Stop watching the trailers. The one thing I will say: Emily Blunt is incredible."

CBR’s roundup of early reactions describes the film as "top tier Spielberg" and notes the early consensus that Blunt’s performance could put her in the awards conversation — an unusual development for a summer blockbuster.

The Team Behind It

The script comes from David Koepp, who has worked with Spielberg more than any other living writer. His Spielberg credits include Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The film is produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger, whose recent credits include The Fabelmans and West Side Story, and John Williams is returning to score — his first Spielberg film since The Fabelmans in 2022.

Spielberg’s alien films have a particular legacy: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and War of the Worlds (2005) are all part of it, and the new trailer’s deliberate callbacks to that history have fans speculating that Disclosure Day may be a stealth continuation of that universe. No confirmation from the studio, but the conversation is already running.

Disclosure Day opens June 12 from Universal Pictures. Tickets are on sale now.

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• Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day opens June 12, 2026, and Emily Blunt just gave the most detailed look yet at what the film is actually about
• Blunt plays Margaret, a meteorologist who gains unexplained abilities and becomes a target of a shadowy government trying to suppress alien knowledge
• Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo co-star; screenplay by David Koepp, based on Spielberg’s original story
• Universal Pictures is hiding 1,000 origami cardinals with free Fandango ticket codes in New York, Los Angeles, and Kansas City this Wednesday
• Fans across social media are connecting the film’s plot to the Pentagon’s recent real-world release of classified UFO files — and the theories are something

Steven Spielberg hasn’t made a movie about aliens since War of the Worlds in 2005. Twenty-one years later, he’s back. And if Emily Blunt’s description of Disclosure Day is any indication, he hasn’t lost a single step.

In a new featurette released this week, Blunt broke down the premise of the June 12 thriller in terms more specific than any trailer has offered yet. Her character is Margaret, a meteorologist. Then the world changes.

“This film is such an original science fiction story about the idea of non-human life existing on other worlds — that we are not alone,” she told ComingSoon. “Margaret is suddenly imbued with these abilities she’s never had before. [She] and Daniel, they are the holders of this world-changing secret. And so they are being hunted down by the highest form of a shadowy government who are trying to stop them from revealing this truth to the world.”

The “Daniel” she’s referencing is Josh O’Connor’s character. They’re not just being chased — they’re being erased.

What Spielberg Showed at CinemaCon

April’s CinemaCon was notable for one thing above everything else: it marked Steven Spielberg’s first-ever appearance at the convention. He didn’t show up empty-handed.

The private trailer screened for theater owners included footage that no one has seen publicly yet. The Hollywood Reporter described a pivotal scene where Blunt’s Margaret — unable to speak during a live weather broadcast — starts emitting sounds that make no linguistic sense. Then O’Connor’s character watches the footage and says: “It’s math.” They have an emotional meeting shortly after. “I know you,” he says. “I know you, too,” she answers.

The trailer also gave the first clear look at the film’s alien creature. CBR, which has been covering Disclosure Day extensively, noted the deliberate parallel to Spielberg’s earlier approach with E.T.: the movie isn’t about the reveal, it’s about what the alien’s presence means emotionally and morally for the humans who encounter it.

The film runs 145 minutes. Rated PG-13. Written by David Koepp — the same David Koepp who wrote Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

You Can Win Free Tickets — But You Have to Go Find Them

Universal Pictures is doing something genuinely fun for the ticket on-sale period. This Wednesday, 1,000 origami cardinals will appear at locations in three cities. One hundred of those birds in each city hold unique Fandango codes for two free tickets to see Disclosure Day in theaters.

New York: Brookfield Place, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET. Kansas City: City Market, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT. Los Angeles: Lake Hollywood Park, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. PT.

It’s the kind of marketing move that only works if people care enough to show up. Based on the pre-release buzz, that doesn’t seem like a problem.

The Fan Theories Are Getting Wild

Here’s where things get genuinely eerie.

Earlier this month, the Pentagon publicly released a collection of previously classified files related to UFO and UAP investigations — photos, videos, audio recordings. The timing with Disclosure Day is… pointed. And the internet has noticed.

Perez Hilton rounded up the reaction, and the range is something. Some fans are treating it as pure coincidence and great marketing luck. Others have gone full conspiracy. “Imagine if real alien disclosure actually happens the same week this movie releases,” one X user wrote. “Marketing genius.” Another went further: “Perhaps Spielberg didn’t invent this, he was briefed. Disclosure Day could be predictive programming 2.0.”

The more measured takes focused on the trailer’s strange clicking scene — Blunt speaking in sounds that defy translation — as something unsettling on a structural level, not just a narrative one. “Instead of alien speech or possession, it may be showing something more disturbing: human language collapsing under something it can’t translate,” one TikTok user wrote in a breakdown that racked up attention.

Blunt, for her part, has kept the emphasis on the film itself. “These new extraordinary gifts that have been bestowed upon them challenge the characters’ values and their beliefs in what’s possible,” she said of Margaret and Daniel’s predicament.

Spielberg’s extraterrestrial trilogy — Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., War of the Worlds — each found a different emotional register for the same core question. Disclosure Day opens June 12. Whatever it’s doing, it’s doing it at exactly the right moment.

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• Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt each earned $12.5 million for The Devil Wears Prada 2 via a “favored nations” deal
• All three stars could earn over $20 million each once box office bonuses kick in — and the film has already grossed $253 million in six days
• Meanwhile, a viral extra named Matthew Ables worked 15 hours on set and took home just $28.50 after buying a required suit
• Ables’ TikTok about his experience racked up 18 million combined views after the film’s May 1 premiere
• The $100 million sequel’s entire leading cast salary — $37.5 million — exceeded the first film’s entire production budget

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a story of two very different paydays. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt each walked away with $12.5 million — and that’s before bonuses. Meanwhile, a Los Angeles content creator named Matthew Ables spent 15 hours on set, appeared in three seconds of the film, and netted $28.50 after buying the suit he was required to wear.

Both stories went viral this week, and together they paint a pretty vivid picture of Hollywood’s food chain.

$12.5 Million Each — and Meryl Made Sure Everyone Got the Same

According to Variety, which spoke to multiple sources close to the production, Streep was the linchpin. 20th Century Studios came to the table knowing she was the one who had to say yes — and she did, for $12.5 million. But here’s the part that’s genuinely surprising: Streep could have commanded significantly more to reprise Miranda Priestly’s silver bob, and instead she brokered what’s known in the industry as a “favored nations” deal, ensuring Hathaway and Blunt received exactly the same salary.

It’s a rare and notably classy move — one that honors the ensemble energy that made the original 2006 film such an enduring classic. On screen, Miranda treats her underlings like furniture. Off screen, Streep apparently had her costars’ backs.

The base salaries are just the start. All three women negotiated box office bonuses tied to pre-agreed grossing milestones, and those bonuses have already begun paying out. With the film crossing $253 million globally in its first six days, sources told Variety each star could ultimately earn over $20 million if audiences keep showing up — which, based on projections of up to $42 million in its second weekend, seems likely.

To put that in perspective: the combined $37.5 million in star salaries alone exceeded the entire $35 million budget of the original Devil Wears Prada. The sequel carried a $100 million budget, which director David Frankel has previously acknowledged was spent largely on cast. Interestingly, Variety notes this still isn’t the largest payday of Streep’s career — that honor goes to her work on Netflix’s 2021 film Don’t Look Up, where the streaming giant’s back-end buyout structure resulted in an even bigger check.

Representatives for 20th Century Studios, CAA (which represents all three actresses), Streep, and Blunt declined to comment. Reps for Hathaway did not return requests.

The Extra Who Made $28.50 — and Ate Butter Chicken Next to Dinosaur Fossils

Now for the other end of the spectrum.

Matthew Ables was just walking through Midtown Manhattan last July when he spotted something unmistakable: Meryl Streep, in full Miranda Priestly mode, filming outside 1221 Sixth Avenue — the building used as the offices of the fictional Runway magazine. A crowd had gathered, sensing something was happening. Then, as Ables described it, “we see the wig. And then she turns around and starts waving to everyone.”

Rather than just watch, Ables spotted a posted notice with the name of the production company and tracked down the background casting department. Two weeks later, he had an email asking him to report to set for two roles: a Met Gala paparazzo and — this is genuinely great — an “Angry Upscale Central Park Pedestrian in a Rush.”

The casting call required multiple wardrobe options for each role, including a suit for the gala scene. Ables hit Macy’s, H&M, and Urban Outfitters in a frenzy, then reported to the holding area at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on West 83rd Street, alongside hundreds of other extras. He changed into his new black Alfani suit, and then a wardrobe team member called out asking if anyone was wearing a designer suit. Ables, who by his own admission knows little about fashion, thought Alfani was Armani. He said yes. It did not go well.

“She thought I was trying to lie to her and get better placement in the scene so she got angry and was like, ‘We don’t have time to mess around on this set,'” Ables recalled to the New York Post. Fortunately, the suit passed muster for both scenes, so he was able to return everything else he’d bought.

The Central Park pedestrian scene took about an hour — real passersby kept wandering into the shot. Then came the Met Gala scene, filmed on the steps of the American Museum of Natural History starting at 9 p.m., with Streep and Stanley Tucci (who plays Runway’s art director) present for most of the night. They filmed it roughly 25 times. Wrapped at 3 a.m.

Somewhere in the middle of all that, extras broke for dinner inside the museum’s lobby. “The food was good, they had spaghetti and butter chicken, but it was interesting because I was eating around these fossils of dinosaurs,” Ables said. He also noted that one crew member had a particularly unglamorous assignment: collecting every piece of trash from every extra and sorting it for recycling, piece by piece.

After 15 hours, Ables received a check for $238.50. But the suit had cost him $210. His actual take-home: $28.50. “The suit came out to about $210, so I didn’t lose money in the end,” he said — finding the bright side with the energy of someone who genuinely doesn’t regret any of it.

He made a video about the experience that racked up 18 million combined views. So in terms of content ROI, Matthew Ables arguably had a pretty good day.

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The Machine Behind the Movie

While Ables was sorting out his suit situation in the holding area, Disney’s marketing team was building one of the most elaborate studio campaigns in recent memory. The fictional Runway magazine was actually printed as a real 90-plus-page issue — with Emily Blunt on the cover as her character Emily Charlton — and distributed at newsstands that popped up in New York and Los Angeles. A giant red shoe with a pitchfork heel toured high-traffic plazas in six cities. Branded vending machines at AMC theaters let fans select their “fashion emergency” and receive a L’Oréal product or a copy of the magazine in return.

The world premiere at Lincoln Center on April 20 turned the entire courtyard into a fashion runway — tented, draped in silk and sheer fabric, and streamed live on Disney+, Hulu, TikTok, and ABC News. Partners included Dior, Samsung, Mercedes-Maybach, and Google, which recreated Runway’s fashion closet with a virtual try-on activation. Starbucks sent three assistants and an intern in green trench coats to deliver coffee on the red carpet. Grey Goose temporarily rebranded as Cerulean Goose and served reimagined espresso martinis inspired by Miranda Priestly’s coffee order.

“We decided that we were not going to do a standard step-and-repeat or anything that looked standard at a movie premiere, but instead, we were going to make it feel like the fashion event of the season,” said Lylle Breier, EVP of global marketing partnerships at Disney. Twenty official promotional partners. Some collaborations two years in the making. A campaign that Breier described simply as: “Everybody wants this.”

Miranda Priestly would probably find something to criticize. But $253 million in six days suggests the rest of the world disagrees.

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• The Devil Wears Prada 2 debuted at No. 1 globally with $233.6M worldwide and $77M domestically in its opening weekend
• The sequel nearly triples the original 2006 film’s $27.5M domestic opening and already represents 72% of its entire lifetime gross
• Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all return alongside original director David Frankel
• The film earned an “A” CinemaScore and broke even — turning a profit — within its first 24 to 48 hours of release
• It marks the highest-ever opening weekend for a Meryl Streep film

Miranda Priestly is back. And she did not come to play.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 stormed into theaters this weekend and immediately rewrote the record books, debuting at No. 1 both domestically and globally with a jaw-dropping $233.6 million worldwide haul. Of that, $77 million came from North American audiences alone — nearly triple the $27.5 million the original earned when it opened in the summer of 2006. Internationally, audiences contributed over $156 million, making this the second-biggest worldwide opening of 2026, behind only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Disney and 20th Century Studios had to be holding their breath going in. Sequels to beloved, non-franchise films are notoriously tricky, and reuniting the original cast — Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci — plus bringing back director David Frankel required a $100 million budget, more than double the original’s $35-40 million. But the gamble paid off almost immediately. Aided by ferocious word-of-mouth and an “A” CinemaScore from exit polls, the film effectively broke even and turned a profit within roughly 24 to 48 hours of its global rollout.

“Some things never go out of fashion,” Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore, told CNBC. “It’s difficult to predict whether audiences will embrace or reject a sequel to a beloved original, but the creative teams, the marketing folks and the distribution team of Disney’s 20th Century Studios put together an irresistible hit movie that had not just appeal in the United States but also around the world.”

The $77 million domestic debut places the film fourth on the year’s domestic chart, behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ($131M), Michael ($97.5M), and Project Hail Mary ($80M). But the story overseas is where Prada 2 really made its mark — and where it’s clear that millennial and Gen X audiences around the world were ready to return to Runway magazine in a big way.

What This Means for Streep, Hathaway, and the Summer Season

This is the highest opening weekend of Meryl Streep’s entire career. Let that sink in. One of the most decorated actors in Hollywood history, and it took a fashion-world sequel at age 76 to give her the biggest box office debut of her life. It’s also one of the best openings ever for a film headlined by a female-centric cast — in the same conversation as the Wicked films and Pitch Perfect 2, ahead of Maleficent and the live-action Cinderella.

The original Devil Wears Prada was a quiet overachiever. In the summer of 2006, packed with Superman, X-Men, and Pirates of the Caribbean, a Streep-and-Hathaway dramedy about journalism and the fashion industry felt like counterprogramming before anyone used that word seriously. It never hit No. 1, but it didn’t need to — it ran long and quiet and earned $124.7 million domestically and $326.5 million worldwide on a modest budget. Twenty years later, the sequel arrived and did in one weekend what the original did in months.

By next weekend, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is expected to surpass the original’s entire worldwide lifetime gross. It currently represents 72% of that number after just three days.

The Rest of the Weekend

The Michael Jackson biopic Michael held impressively in second place, dropping only 44% to add $54 million domestically in its second frame. Its worldwide total now sits at $423-424 million — remarkable numbers for a biopic, even one with a price tag estimated between $150-200 million. The film is firmly on track to cross half a billion globally.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie continued its long, sturdy run in third place, adding $12.1 million in its fifth weekend to bring its domestic total to $402.6 million and its worldwide haul to $894 million. The billion-dollar watch is officially on.

Project Hail Mary, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, became the first film since Avatar: Fire and Ash to spend seven consecutive weekends in the top five. Its $8.5 million this weekend brings its domestic total to $318.3 million, with a global finish potentially approaching $700 million — a number only five Hollywood films hit in all of 2025.

Neon’s horror newcomer Hokum, starring Adam Scott and directed by Damian McCarthy, rounded out the top five with $6.4 million from 1,885 theaters. With an 86% critics score, it’s the distributor’s best opening since last summer’s Together.

In the U.K. and Ireland specifically, Prada 2 opened to £9.3 million ($12.6 million), also landing at No. 1, per Comscore. Michael moved to second there with $9.4 million in its second frame, bringing its U.K. cumulative to $31.2 million.

Looking ahead, this coming weekend brings Mortal Kombat II, the Hugh Jackman family mystery The Sheep Detectives, and the James Cameron-directed Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft — The Tour Live in 3D. It’ll be a crowded house. But this weekend belonged entirely to Prada — and to the four people who made us fall in love with it the first time.

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