• 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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• Peter Jackson confirmed at Cannes Film Festival that a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin is officially in development
• Jackson is writing the screenplay himself and plans to direct the film
• The original 2011 film was directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Jackson
• Fans have waited 15 years for a follow-up after the first film performed well at the box office

The wait is finally over. Peter Jackson confirmed at the Cannes Film Festival that a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin is happening — and this time, he’s stepping into the director’s chair himself.

It’s been 15 years since the first film arrived in theaters. Steven Spielberg directed that 2011 motion-capture adventure, with Jackson producing alongside him, and the two had always talked about swapping roles for a follow-up. Now, finally, Jackson says he’s actively working on the screenplay and intends to direct the picture himself.

The original film was a genuine crowd-pleaser — a visually inventive, globe-trotting caper that brought Hergé’s beloved comic-strip reporter to life with a level of energy that felt unmistakably Spielbergian. It earned over $370 million worldwide and won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. And yet, despite the goodwill and the clear appetite for more, a sequel never came. Development stalled, years passed, and Tintin quietly became one of cinema’s most famous cases of a sequel that was always “coming soon” but never quite arriving.

Why It Took So Long — and Why It’s Happening Now

Both Spielberg and Jackson have been among the busiest filmmakers in Hollywood over the past decade and a half, which goes a long way toward explaining the gap. Spielberg alone has kept an extraordinary pace — he’s currently putting the finishing touches on Disclosure Day, his upcoming alien-invasion film, while also developing what he’s described as his first-ever Western. Jackson, meanwhile, had his own slate of ambitious projects to work through.

But the Cannes announcement signals that the sequel has moved from wishful thinking to genuine momentum. Jackson is writing the script. He plans to direct. That’s not a rumor or a vague expression of interest — that’s a filmmaker committing publicly, at one of the world’s most visible film stages, to making it happen.

For fans of the original, and for the generations who grew up reading Hergé’s comics, this is the news they’ve been waiting for since the credits rolled in 2011. Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and the rest of the gang are coming back — just with a different visionary at the helm this time.

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