FRIDAY MIDDAY: Good news so far: Universal and Amblin’s Steven Spielberg directed Disclosure Day is coming in ahead of expectations ($35M at the domestic B.O.) with a $42.5M 3-day at 3,824 after a Friday that’s shaping up to be $18.5M including last night’s previews. Disclosure Day has all the intelligent life of Imax and PLF auditoriums working in its favor.
That’s the best ever start for a Spielberg and Amblin original movie; the story written by the 3x Oscar winner with his longtime collaborator David Koepp penning the screenplay. The Rotten Tomatoes audience score stands at 75%. CinemaScore is out later tonight. The CinemaScores for E.T. and Close Encounters are unavailable from the audience exit firm, but among Spielberg sci-fi movies, Minority Report and War of the Worlds get a B+ while A.I. (based on concepts by Stanley Kubrick, who handed them over to Spielberg) was a low C+.
Offshore, Thursday grossed another $5.3M taking Disclosure Day‘s foreign running cume to $11.2M. Running global cume is hovering around $30M before counting Friday’s international B.O. and global’s Saturday and Sunday. Again, the expectation was a $65M global start, and it’s likely Disclosure Day will best that.
The UK & Ireland added $900K yesterday taking the 2-day total to $1.2M. Thursday’s result is in line with the Thursday opening of Ready Player One, above Project Hail Mary, and almost double Arrival, whilst the pic’s first two days are +59% above Twisters which also opened on a Wednesday. Universal’s results across Wednesday and Thursday accounted for a third of all box office, positioning Disclosure Day as the clear No. 1 film in a competitive market at 720 sites (widest ever for Spielberg there), with eight films grossing over £1M. The BFI IMAX and Odeon Luxe Leicester Square were top grossing venues on Thursday with Imax repping 14% of tickets sales there.
France minted $400K on Thursday taking the 2-day cume to $1M at 680 screens, and making the pic No. 1 in the market. That’s more than double the admissions of second-placed local blockbuster De Gaulle Part 1. Imax reps 5.3% of the Spielberg pic’s admissions with PLFs delivering 8%. The results over the pic’s first two days is more than double Project Hail Mary and Arrival, as well as topping Twisters, One Battle After Another, and Blade Runner 2049.
In Australia, Disclosure Day has reached a running total of $1.2M, including an early estimate of $600K for Friday’s results. Disclosure Day is opening across 312 screens, including 10 IMAX screens, which account for a strong 11% of the cume to-date. The Spielberg alien pic is hands down the clear No.1 film in the market, taking 26% share of the total box office on Friday, with a result that is above One Battle After Another and Arrival, and in line with Interstellar and Twisters.
Mexico has had an excellent start, adding $422K on Thursday to take the title’s two-day total to $900K. Disclosure Day is the clear No.1 in the market with close to a third of market share (despite World Cup screenings). Mexico’s opening game of the World Cup had less impact than expected on Thursday, as the movie came in above Interstellar and Project Hail Mary, and more than double One Battle After Another.
Brazil has had an excellent start across 972 screens, grossing $400K on Thursday to take Disclosure Day‘s two-day total to $600K, ranking No. 1. The strong Thursday result is more than double Project Hail Mary and Twisters, as well as topping Ready Player One. Imax is good at 5% of business from 12 screens, with 10% coming from all PLFs.
Italy added $264K from 520 screens on Thursday, ranking No.1 with a strong 34% share of total box office, and the highest screen average in the market. Imax drove close to 4% of business from seven sites, and 70mm repped 3.3% from one location. Thursday’s gross is above Project Hail Mary, One Battle After Another, and Arrival, and almost 3x Twisters.The two-day total has now reached $600K.
Germany added $221K on Thursday, following their strong start on Wednesday’s launch ($351K). The two-day total is now at $600K, with Imax accounting for an 8.4% share. The Thursday result – the standard opening day in Germany – is above Arrival and Twisters.
Korea grossed $177K on Thursday, taking Disclosure Day‘s two-day total to $600K. The Thursday result is above One Battle After Another, and in line with Blade Runner 2049.
The Netherlands grossed $117K at No.1 on Thursday with a strong 22% share of the total market. The result is above Twisters, Ready Player One, Project Hail Mary, and Interstellar, and more than 3x Arrival. Imax share of B.O. is strong at 20% with Dolby delivering another 8%. The two-day total has now reached $255K.
Hong Kong has had a good start with $300K across the first two days, ranking No.1 in the market. The two-day result is above Twisters, which also opened on a Wednesday, while Thursday’s gross is above Arrival and Project Hail Mary, and more than double One Battle After Another.
Poland collected $195K across the first two days, ranking No.1 with a strong 23% market share. Imax is fueling a 12% share from just eight screens.
FRIDAY AM UPDATE AFTER EXCLUSIVE: Previews in North America for Universal and Amblin’s Steven Spielberg movie Disclosure Day came in at $6.5 million, which takes the Thursday night and Wednesday offshore combined take to $12.5M. We’ll get another update on international later Friday morning.
That preview figure for the $115M net production is on par with Alien: Romulus ($6.5M previews, 3-day of $42M), just ahead of Jordan Peele’s Nope ($6.4M previews, $44.3M), and just under that of The Marvels ($6.6M previews, $46.1M). If Uni hits a $40M+ opening on this movie in the U.S./Canada, they’ll be very happy. Again, as we previously told you, Spielberg, the architect of the blockbuster, is a filmmaker who isn’t about the enormous opening, but rather about his legs.
Among the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s sci-fi pics, Disclosure Day‘s audience score on Rotten Tomatoes ain’t too shabby at 74%, higher than E.T. (72%), A.I. (64%) and War of the Worlds (42%) but under Close Encounters of the Third Kind (85%) and Minority Report (80%).
Disclosure Day is one of two wide entries this weekend, the other being Bleecker Street’s RuPaul comedy Stop! That! Train!
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Interesting to note in regards to weekdays: Focus Features’ Obsession beat Scary Movie on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Phenomenal weekly hold in week 4 of -11%. The Curry Barker-directed pic about a toxic relationship hasn’t broken up with audiences yet.
PREVIOUSLY, EXCLUSIVE: Sources are telling us that the first day worldwide of Steven Spielberg’s alien feature Disclosure Day is around $12 million. That includes a $6M Wednesday from its first swath of overseas markets, in addition to domestic previews which are around $6M from showtimes that began at 2 p.m. today.
As always, that Thursday night domestic number is an estimate; previews by Friday AM could come in higher or lower.
The movie starring Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo and Josh O’Connor is expected to do around $65M+ worldwide, and about $35M give or take domestic. The Rotten Tomatoes critical score at 82% certified fresh in comparison to the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s other sci-fi pics is higher than his War of the Worlds (76%) and A.I. (76%) but lower than Close Encounters of the Third Kind (91%) and Minority Report (89%).
Wednesday’s foreign take of $6M includes all key markets except for China and Spain, where Disclosure Day bows Friday. The pic’s overall touch-down is in 73 markets on more than 50,600 screens in 21,600 locations by EOD tomorrow. Overall foreign opening is targeted at $30M+. In many places abroad, Disclosure Day is already beaming in more cash than Spielberg’s previous sci-fi movie, Ready Player One. However, that movie is a tough comp (until it’s not): It opened offshore to a lofty $49M ($102.7M WW) juiced by a vibrant pre-Covid China marketplace.
The UK and Ireland’s $1.2M Wednesday for Disclosure Day reps a strong 36% market share at No. 1 across 650 sites. It will expand to 720 locations by Friday and will be the market’s widest release for Spielberg. Wednesday’s result is above the same day’s previews for Twisters, in line with the first Wednesday for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and M:I – The Final Reckoning (Mon/Tue openings) and above the Thursday start for Ready Player One.
France grossed $632K on Wednesday from 73K admissions, bowing across 680 screens and notching No. 1 with a 25% share of total market admissions. This Wednesday result is above Blade Runner 2049, One Battle After Another, Twisters and more than double A Quiet Place: Day One, Arrival and Project Hail Mary in admissions. Disclosure Day has received positive audience reactions, including a 3.8/5-star rating on Allocine.
Mexico was also muy bien with $486K on Wednesday, No. 1 with a strong 29% market share across 1,800 screens. This is in line with the standard opening day (Thursday) for Twisters and above Project Hail Mary and Interstellar.
Korea opened to $383K on Wednesday on 1,071 screens, Spielberg’s second-widest release behind Ready Player One’s 1,079 in the market. Disclosure Day ranks first and claimed 32% of total box office during the market’s bi-monthly Culture Day. This Wednesday start is above Twisters and more than double One Battle After Another.
Germany grossed $348K on Wednesday across 520 screens, ranking No. 1 with 21% market share. That’s above the Wednesday previews for Twisters.
Italy made $336K on Wednesday, ranking No. 1 with 30% market share. This is above the Wednesday previews for Ready Player One and Twisters.
Brazil had a good start with $231K on Wednesday at No. 2 behind Scary Movie, which is over-indexing in this market. Wednesday’s result is in line with the standard opening day (Thursday) for Ready Player One and above Project Hail Mary, Twisters and Blade Runner 2049.
In Australia, Disclosure Day has reached a running total of $594K, starting its release with limited sneaks Wednesday night and adding $406K on Thursday. The pic launched on 312 screens. Today, the pic was No. 1 in the market with a 36% share of the Top 10 titles. This result is well above One Battle After Another and Arrival.
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This will have a huge drop-off next wknd, upwards of 60%. Huge disappointment, and word is spreading fast.
This needs about 400 million to break even. Not happening
What a stupid thing to say. I literally just said i like it a lot and it’s a good movie so there you go!
What a boring and silly film. How is it in 2026 with plunging theatre tickets this nonsense got greenlit is beyond me. Did they not test screen this? I can’t tell you how tempted I was to get up and walk out of it.
“DISAPPOINTMENT DAY” is a more appropriate title. Lacks the awe and wonder of “ET” and “Close Encounters.”