First Contact: How Disclosure Day Rewrites the Spielberg Alien Legacy
Forty-four years and a day after E.T. opened, Steven Spielberg returns to first contact — this time with whistleblowers, congressional hearings, and the question of what they hid. A retrospective on the practical-effects wonder of Close Encounters and E.T., and what changes when the same director points the camera at suspicion instead of awe.
By the Numbers: What 49 Years of Spielberg Sci-Fi Tells Us to Expect From Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day opens wide this Friday, June 12, and the internet has already decided what it is. The numbers haven't. Here is what 49 years of Spielberg sci-fi releases actually say about the bar Friday's opening has to clear.
Stop Calling Disclosure Day the Next Matrix Before You've Bought a Ticket
The Paris premiere happened a week ago. The film opens wide in America on Friday. And somehow, on the strength of a trailer, a Williams score, and a Le Grand Rex afterparty, half the internet has already decided Disclosure Day is a paradigm shift. Look — calm down. Here's the part nobody wants to say out loud.
Spielberg vs Pixar vs the DCU: June's Three-Way Box Office War by the Numbers
Three consecutive weekends. Three potential hundred-million-dollar openings. June 2026 just delivered the most concentrated box office battle in years — here's what the data reveals about who won, who got hurt, and what it means for the rest of the summer.
This Week Belongs to Spielberg — And It's Not Even Close
Steven Spielberg returns to alien sci-fi for the first time in 21 years with Disclosure Day, John Williams comes out of retirement at 94 to score it, and Emily Blunt faces extraterrestrials on live TV. Plus: two series finales and a romance novel adaptation on streaming.