LAS VEGAS – Director Steven Spielberg confirmed that aliens are the topic of his upcoming movie “Disclosure Day” and debuted new footage in the course of the Universal Studios presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 15.
“I’ve been curious ever since I was a little kid about what’s happening in the night sky,” he advised the viewers, saying that the potential for extraterrestrial life sparks his creativity.
Spielberg’s return to the summer time blockbuster seems to observe Josh O’Connor‘s character, Daniel Kelner, combating to reveal the existence of extra-terrestrial life together with Emily Blunt and Colman Domingo. Connor and Blunt seem to play characters which are possessed by aliens. Colin Firth seems to lead a shadowy authorities entity tasked with conserving the existence of aliens secret.
The “Jaws” filmmaker stated the movie was “way closer to truth than to fiction.”
He pointed to a 2017 New York Times report on the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program for the return to the topic he is explored in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” saying that it made him curious once more.
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg arrives on stage throughout Universal Pictures and Focus Features presentation at CinemaCon at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev. on April 15, 2026.
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“I truly believe that this movie is going to answer questions and cause you to ask a lot of questions,” Spielberg stated.
The multi-Oscar award winner stated that he has been extremely protecting of the movie’s third act due to youthful audiences utilizing advertising supplies to anticipate plot factors in upcoming movies.
“All you need to get from the beginning to the end is a seatbelt,” he stated.
Domingo, who launched and interviewed Spielberg, introduced that movie titan gained the Motion Picture Association’s’ America 250 award.
“Steven Spielberg defines what Americans think when they think of movies,” MPA Chairman Charles Rivkin stated when he introduced the award.
In his acceptance speech, the Oscar-winner recounted the story of him falling in love with movie and exhibiting films for charity in his childhood house in Phoenix and earning profits by “charging 12-cents for popcorn.”
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“Nothing could compete with sitting in the first three rows of a movie palace (and) watching a Cecil B. DeMille epic with color by Technicolor,” Spielberg stated.
He known as for studios to develop the unique theater window for movies and rely much less on already produced mental property. “If all we make is known branded IP we’re going to run out of gas and we’re going to run out of gas very quickly,” he added.
This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: Steven Spielberg says ‘Disclosure Day’ is closer to truth than fiction
