In 1977, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind imagined contact with aliens as an event inspiringawe. Five years later, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial envisioned another arrival as a story about connection, loneliness and friendship.
Now the mega-director is taking another look at the great unknown with Disclosure Day. Industry watchers expect the sci-fi thriller to gross some $65 million this opening weekend and give Spielberg a blockbuster comeback after two back-to-back box office misses. It stars a career-best Emily Blunt as a Kansas City meteorologist with a hidden past and superhuman empathy, alongside Josh O’Connor as a whistleblower who wants to expose a 70-year- long coverup about the existence of alien life. David Koepp (Jurassic Park) wrote the script from an original story by Spielberg.