Updated Dec. 16, 2025, 12:34 p.m. ET
Steven Spielberg is back with a new kind of close encounter.
The first trailer for the legendary director’s next movie “Disclosure Day,” which until now did not have an official title, has debuted with cryptic footage.
The first look, released on Tuesday, Dec. 16, keeps the film’s plot vague but appears to indicate it is about the existence of some sort of alien life being revealed to the world.
The trailer opens with the question, “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?” Emily Blunt is then shown doing a weather report on television before she begins to stammer and make strange, alien-like clicking sounds.
The footage also features a character played by Josh O’Connor declaring that “people have a right to know the truth” and that he is planning for “full disclosure, to the whole world, all at once.” He is later shown standing in what appears to be a crop circle.
A plot synopsis for “Disclosure Day” has not been released, and the studio described it only as a “new original event film.” The genre is listed as “thriller.”
Colin Firth, Colman Domingo and Eve Hewson also star in “Disclosure Day,” which marks Spielberg’s first new movie as a director since his Oscar-nominated, semi-autobiographical 2022 drama “The Fabelmans.”
The trailer and title reveal provided some long-awaited insight into what Spielberg has been cooking up after months of speculation about the film. All that was previously known was that the movie was reportedly a return to science fiction for Spielberg and allegedly had something to do with UFOs.
The speculation intensified after billboards for the movie recently started popping up, showing a close-up of an eye along with the cryptic text, “All will be disclosed.” No title was included on the billboards, and only Spielberg’s name and the release date gave away what the advertisement was connected to.
But “Disclosure Day” seems to be a return to crowd-pleasing summer blockbusters for Spielberg, who helped birth the genre in 1975 with “Jaws” and continued perfecting it with movies like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” In recent years, Spielberg has generally been more focused on adult-oriented dramas released during awards season, including “Bridge of Spies” and “The Post,” though he came back to sci-fi with his 2018 blockbuster “Ready Player One.”
The movie is also apparently a return to a familiar subject for Spielberg: aliens, a topic he previously explored in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
Spielberg’s most recent film, “The Fabelmans,” was the story of an aspiring movie director who discovers a shattering family secret. The movie, which was heavily based on Spielberg’s own life, received seven Oscar nominations, including best picture.
‘Disclosure Day’ release date
“Disclosure Day” is set to hit theaters at the height of the summer movie season: June 12, 2026.
