Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' opened in theaters worldwide on Thursday, June 12, 2026, posting roughly $12 million on its first day — about $6 million from US previews that started at 2 p.m. Wednesday plus another $6 million across 73 international markets — on its way to an opening weekend Universal is tracking near $65 million globally. Deadline's projection has domestic landing around $35 million, with a Certified Fresh 85% Rotten Tomatoes score from 212 critic reviews and a $115 million net production budget. The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Eve Hewson, scored by John Williams and written by David Koepp from a story he conceived with Spielberg.
It is Spielberg's first original-IP sci-fi feature since 'Minority Report' in 2002, and the opening number is going to be read against a specific career bracket: 'Minority Report' opened to $35.6 million, 'War of the Worlds' to $64.8 million in a three-day, and 'Ready Player One' to $41.7 million. A $35-million domestic landing slots Disclosure Day at the lower end of that range, but the $65-million global forecast tracks closer to the 'War of the Worlds' shape — and on a budget that is materially smaller than either of those earlier swings.
The premise is the lift Spielberg has built his marketing around. Josh O'Connor's character has classified government intelligence about extraterrestrial contact and is trying to disclose it publicly; Colin Firth's character is trying to stop him; Emily Blunt plays a weather presenter affected by an unexplained force the film keeps deliberately under-explained. Spielberg has stayed away from traditional UFO-craft imagery, leaning into a 1970s paranoia register more than a contemporary spectacle one.
The 85% Rotten Tomatoes score is the metric most relevant to legs rather than opening number. Spielberg's original-IP openings have historically had longer playoffs than the same-weekend tentpoles around them, and Disclosure Day is opening into a summer corridor that lacks a direct competitor — the next major wide release is more than a week out. Universal is treating the long-tail math as the actual financial case for the film.
Critic reception has zeroed in on the cast as the film's spine. Emily Blunt's performance has drawn the strongest early-awards mentions of any Spielberg feature since 'The Fabelmans,' and Josh O'Connor's leading-man turn is the kind of step-up that tends to reshape an actor's offer sheet inside three months. Colman Domingo and Wyatt Russell, both in supporting roles, are getting credited with the film's tonal cohesion.
The Friday previews indicator will be available by tomorrow morning, and the actual three-day will land Sunday. Beating the $35-million domestic floor would put Disclosure Day on a glide path to $250 million worldwide and meaningfully validate Universal's bet on original Spielberg material at this budget; falling short would land it in the more complicated territory of being a critical hit that did not quite return its production spend on theatrical, with streaming windows expected to do significant lift in the back half of the year.
