Published Jun 12, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
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It’s officially Disclosure Day. The legendary Steven Spielberg’s return to sci-fi has felt a long time coming, and the wait, it seems, has been worth it. “As a Spielberg devotee, Disclosure Day gave me exactly what I wanted from his return to the alien movie,” wrote Collider’s Nate Richard in his review of the movie, with this one of many glowing critical responses. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film boasts an 84% approval rating, with most gushing over an Oscar nomination-worthy performance from **Emily Blunt **(The Devil Wears Prada).
But Blunt is far from the only performance receiving praise in* Disclosure Day*, with other Hollywood favorites gracing the sci-fi spectacle, including Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters), Colman Domingo (Rustin), and **Wyatt Russell **(Monarch: Legacy of Monsters). Truthfully, simply having a Spielberg sci-fi back on the big screen would be enough for most, without it being one of his best movies in recent memory. In fact, so excited are fans for the icon’s return that his last sci-fi effort has returned to the streaming charts.
After joining HBO Max earlier this month, ***Ready Player One ***has officially placed as one of the ten most-streamed movies in the U.S. Based on the Ernest Cline novel of the same name, this Academy Award nominee for Best Visual Effects boasted an astutely assembled cast and some typical Spielberg magic, helping it achieve both critical and commercial acclaim. Against a $150 million production budget, the movie returned just shy of $600 million worldwide and was one of the highest-grossing projects of 2018.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Ahead of this weekend, Disclosure Day is projected to open to $35 million, which is considerably short of what many pundits expected. Given the film’s hefty $115 million budget, this gives cause for concern for those behind the project. This projected underperformance is perhaps in part due to the huge success of both Curry Barker’s Obsession and A24’s Backrooms, a pair of horror movies that boast the visions of young, ambitious directors. Disclosure Day is sure to outperform the pair, but there’s no doubt that Obsession and Backrooms will take a noticeable bite out of the sci-fi movie’s opening weekend haul.
*Ready Player One *is available to stream on HBO Max. Stay tuned to Collider for more stories.
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