Spielberg's 'disclosure day' leads box office with $44 million

Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg News on Jun 14, 2026

Published in Boxing

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Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, released by Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, was the highest grossing film at the U.S. and Canada box office with $44 million in ticket sales.

The movie, about a cover-up by the U.S. government and defense contractors of the fact that aliens have lived on Earth since at least the Roswell crash in 1947, ranks among Spielberg’s best openings in history, excluding sequels and remakes and not adjusted for inflation.

Disclosure Day retreads a genre that has fascinated Spielberg throughout his career, building on the success of his films Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. It also marks a return to summer blockbuster filmmaking for the director best known for Hollywood classics such as Jaws and Jurassic Park.

The U.S. box office has enjoyed a strong performance so far this year, boosted by pictures such as Michael from Lionsgate Studios Corp., Scream 7 and Scary Movie from Paramount Skydance Corp.’s film studio, and Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

The summer blockbuster season includes more highly anticipated releases like Toy Story 5 from Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar Animation Studios, Spider-Man: Brand New Day from Sony Group Corp.’s film studio and Universal’s The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan.