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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.
