‘Disclosure Day’ Just Beat Denis Villeneuve’s Sci-Fi Franchise-Starter at the Box Office, but There’s a Catch

Published Jul 13, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

Having completed a full month in theaters worldwide, Steven Spielberg’s divisive sci-fi movie Disclosure Day still hasn’t hit its projected break-even point. The movie wasn’t astronomically expensive to produce, costing roughly half of what most major tentpoles cost these days. But it has struggled to build on solid opening-weekend momentum. Disclosure Day exceeded expectations in its debut frame, but had hefty drops in the subsequent weekends. The movie has, however, managed to pass the coveted $100 million mark domestically. That said, it can’t be hailed as an objective win for Spielberg, who was coming off two back-to-back underperformers — the musical West Side Story and the semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans.

In its fifth weekend at the domestic box office, Disclosure Day retained a spot on the top 10 list and grossed around $3.2 million. In doing so, the film overtook one of the most beloved sci-fi hits of the last decade. There is, however, a catch. The movie that Disclosure Day has passed at the domestic box office was released in 2021, as part of a controversial slate of Warner Bros. titles that were all released simultaneously in theaters and on the HBO Max streaming service. This strategy was widely condemned, including by Spielberg, who didn’t suffer personally. The same goes for Christopher Nolan, who severed ties with Warner Bros. despite the fact that his film, Tenet, received a proper theatrical roll-out.

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.

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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.

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