• 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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• Shawn Levy will direct Somewhere Out There, an original sci-fi drama for Netflix
• Netflix won the project in a competitive bidding war over the spec script by writer Max Taxe
• The story follows a grieving father who sends a message into space — and something talks back
• Levy just wrapped production on Star Wars: Starfighter, due in theaters May 28, 2027
• Several prominent actors are already circling the lead role

Fresh off wrapping Star Wars: Starfighter, Shawn Levy isn’t taking a breath. The Deadpool & Wolverine director is set to helm Somewhere Out There, an original sci-fi drama for Netflix that the streamer picked up after a competitive bidding war over the spec script by writer Max Taxe.

The premise is quietly devastating: a grieving father, reeling from the loss of his wife, sends a message out into the stars — and something out there starts to talk back. Levy and his team are describing it as “emotional sci-fi,” a term that immediately calls to mind two specific touchstones: Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival — which Levy actually produced — and Levy’s own The Adam Project, the time-travel family drama he made with Netflix back in 2022. If those are the reference points, expect something that hits you in the chest before you see it coming.

Levy will also produce through his 21 Laps banner alongside company partner Dan Levine. Becca Edelman, who originally brought the project into 21 Laps, will oversee development.

A Writer Netflix Should Know By Now

Taxe isn’t a stranger to either the sci-fi space or the 21 Laps orbit. He previously wrote Moonshot, the sci-fi romantic comedy starring Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse that debuted on HBO Max in 2022, and he already has another 21 Laps script in development — Ripple, which has Jack Quaid attached to star. Somewhere Out There is clearly the project that’s put him on the map in a bigger way, and the bidding war it generated says plenty about how the industry is reading the material.

Sources also tell The Hollywood Reporter that several prominent actors are already circling the role of the grieving father — which tracks, given that Levy has a habit of attracting major names. His recent collaborators include Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, Hugh Jackman, and Mark Ruffalo. Gosling, for what it’s worth, just finished leading Levy’s Starfighter cast alongside Amy Adams, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, and Aaron Pierre.

What Levy Is Walking Into Next

Star Wars: Starfighter is heading into a lengthy post-production process ahead of its May 28, 2027 theatrical release, which gives Levy room to move on Somewhere Out There in the meantime. It’s a smart pivot — from the biggest franchise in cinema to something intimate and original, the kind of project that reminds audiences (and awards voters) what a filmmaker is actually made of.

And 21 Laps itself is having a moment. The banner is currently in production on two other Netflix projects: One Attempt Remaining, a comedy directed by Kay Cannon and starring Jennifer Garner and John Cena, and an untitled hockey series starring Michelle Monaghan. Add Somewhere Out There to the pile, and it’s clear Levy’s company is operating at full throttle.

For Levy, whose Deadpool & Wolverine crossed $1.3 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, the pressure to follow that up is real. But a quiet, grief-soaked story about a man reaching into the universe for something he lost? That sounds less like a follow-up and more like a reset — the kind of film he clearly wants to make, not just the kind he’s expected to.

No casting announcements yet, but with names already circling, that news probably isn’t far off.

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