Spielberg’s Disclosure Day leads box office with US$44m

[LOS ANGELES] Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, released by Comcast’s Universal Pictures, was the highest grossing film at the US and Canada box office with US$44 million in ticket sales. 

The movie, about a cover-up by the US government and defence 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 US 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’s film studio, and Universal’s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. 

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