State secrets are revealed in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi: here’s the new trailer for Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor… Update 9th February 2026: A high-profile sporting event in the United States has played host to a new trailer for Disclosure Day – Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi thriller abut alien visitation and the ... Disclosure Day | Steven Spielberg’s UFO movie gets second trailer
State secrets are revealed in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi: here’s the new trailer for Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor…
Update 9th February 2026: A high-profile sporting event in the United States has played host to a new trailer for Disclosure Day – Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi thriller abut alien visitation and the government’s efforts to keep it all quiet.
There’s something rather jarring about a trailer starting with “the threat to release government material long shrouded in secrecy” in light of recent events, but we’ll gloss over that. Like the promo released last December, we’re shown glimpses of ordinary people – including Josh O’Connor’s whistleblower and Emily Blunt’s weather presenter – caught up in a conspiracy that clearly involves extra-terrestrials and clandestine agencies who like to drive around in black cars..
There’s talk of humanoid figures that aren’t actually human; crop circles form in a field; and the trailer ends with a saucer-shaped object emerging from a cloud – a distinct echo of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Is Disclosure Day a sneaky pseudo sequel to that 1977 classic, or is Spielberg merely making a playful nod to it?
Whether it’s a follow-up or a stand-alone, Disclosure Day certainly deals with remarkably similar themes – albeit with some mind-control, shape-shifting and Colin Firth thrown in. We wrote a breakdown of the previous trailer if you’re interested in such things.
Disclosure Day is in cinemas from the 12th June 2026.
Our previous story follows…
16th December 2025: The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s secretive new film has finally appeared online, and with it, a title: Disclosure Day.
Although it doesn’t have an obvious connection to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, it also appears to explore a similar theme: the government cover up of alien intelligence. Josh O’Connor plays a character intent on revealing the truth to the world (the disclosure of the title) while Emily Blunt plays a weather presenter caught up in the conspiracy – and seemingly possessed by an alien at one point.
We also see the birds teased in the billboard posters in earlier days (see our original post below) – it looks as though aliens are also available to possess animals, including soft bill raptors and various sorts of deer.
Disclosure Day is in UK cinemas from the 12th June 2026. Here’s that first trailer. Yep, we’ll be seated for this one.
Our previous story follows…
Update 11th December 2025: “All will be disclosed. Spielberg. 06.12.2026” states a billboard hanging in New York’s Time Square. So begins the marketing cycle for Steven Spielberg’s mysterious next movie, which has long been rumoured to be about UFOs – a return to the subject he famously tackled in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.
The billboards (plural – one is also said to be knocking about in LA somewhere) come in the wake of the news that a trailer for Spielberg’s film will appear in front of Avatar: Fire And Ash, which hits cinemas on the 19th December.
You can see one of the billboards in DiscussingFilm’s tweet, embedded below. Interestingly, it doesn’t obviously look like a sci-fi movie, even though the word ‘disclosed’ nods to one of the film’s rumoured titles – Disclosure. Instead, there’s an upside-down human eye peering through the silhouette of a bird. There are also some blurry words forming a circle around the image, like the type around a camera lens.
What could it all mean?
Maybe we’ll find out later this month.
Untitled Steven Spielberg Film is due for release on the 12th June 2026. Not the 6th December 2026 as the billboards suggest.
Previously…
27th February 2026: Work on Steven Spielberg’s next film, due for release in 2026, is officially underway, with its stars spotted filming outdoor scenes in New Jersey earlier this week.
Local news outlet NJ.com (via World of Reel) has a couple of candid snaps from the production, with co-stars Emily Blunt and Wyatt Russell shown wearing sensible winter coats.
The accompanying report says that the stars were performing a scene which involved “grasping each other’s hands and embracing”, with a smoky gas station providing the backdrop.
The production is shrouded in an unusual level of secrecy even by Hollywood standards. It’s a little over a year away from release and yet we haven’t seen a synopsis or even a confirmed title. At one stage, it was said to be called The Dish – that name showed up during an IMAX presentation in July 2024. It’s now rumoured to be called Disclosure – a title that might support earlier reports that Spielberg’s making a UFO movie – while according to NJ.com, the production’s code name is 'Non-View’.
A listing on Backstage, seeking ‘nonunion talent’ also carries the same title. A quick search on the US Copyright’s archives also reveals that the title Non-View was filed by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures on the 16th December 2025. Could this be the name Spielberg eventually goes with? We can only wait and see.
The film itself marks the latest collaboration between Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp; the pair previously worked together on Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, as well as Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull. Perhaps coincidentally, their adaptation of HG Wells’ The War Of The Worlds also used New Jersey as one of its filming locations.
Koepp has remained coy about this latest Spielberg project, though he said last December that it’s “like a sci-fi” and is a throwback, of sorts, to Spielberg’s early career. “It does harken back to maybe a different tone than [what he’s done lately],” the writer told The Playlist. “Something he used to do that he hasn’t done for a little bit.”
Joining Blunt and Russell in the leads are Colman Domingo, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson. Will they play a part in a fast-paced thrill ride akin to Jurassic Park, or will it be a more dramatic piece, like 1977’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind? For now, Universal Pictures simply describes it as a “new original event film.”
Spielberg’s Disclosure (or perhaps Non-View) is scheduled for release on the 12th June 2026.
