LOS ANGELES — Tom Cruise, who starred in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) and War of the Worlds (2005), attended a special pre-opening screening of Spielberg’s new alien thriller Disclosure Day ahead of its June 14 theatrical release alongside two fellow Spielberg alumni: Colin Farrell, his Minority Report co-star, and Dakota Fanning, who appeared alongside Cruise in War of the Worlds. Cruise capped the evening with a social media post declaring it “nothing better than a summer Spielberg movie night in a packed theater with friends,” calling the film “superb” and thanking Spielberg “for all of the hours of joy that you have given us in the cinema.”
The reunion had one standout prop: a custom popcorn bucket Cruise brought to the screening shaped like Spielberg’s head, wearing a Disclosure Day cap — a detail that made the rounds on social media faster than the film’s first trailer. According to Variety’s full account of Tom Cruise reuniting with Spielberg co-stars at the Disclosure Day screening, the event was a genuinely affectionate gathering of longtime Spielberg collaborators celebrating a director who has defined blockbuster filmmaking across four decades.
Disclosure Day is an original alien thriller written and directed by Spielberg for Universal and Amblin. The film stars Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, with Colin Firth in a supporting role. The Hollywood Reporter’s full review of Disclosure Day declared it “Spielberg’s best film in 20 years” — praise that lands in a summer calendar otherwise dominated by franchise sequels and animated event films.
The film earned $6.5 million in Thursday night preview screenings, with analysts projecting a $35 million domestic opening weekend from a $115 million production budget. The opening would represent a healthy result for an original property — Spielberg’s last full commercial success, Ready Player One (2018), earned $607 million worldwide, though his subsequent films West Side Story (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022) underperformed at the box office despite Oscar recognition. Disclosure Day is his most explicit return to wide-audience genre filmmaking since that run, and the Thursday preview number suggests there is genuine commercial appetite.
Cruise, currently enjoying one of the most sustained A-list runs in Hollywood history, is heading into a busy second half of 2026. He is set to star in Digger, a satirical comedy directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu arriving this fall — his first non-franchise film since American Made in 2017. The Disclosure Day screening appearance was characteristic of the long-form filmmaker loyalty that has marked his career. Elsewhere in the summer genre landscape, The Eastern Herald has reported on Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary heading to MGM+ on June 18 after its record-breaking $678 million theatrical run, while the drama awards circuit is heating up with Noah Wyle tracking for a second consecutive Emmy for The Pitt.
Disclosure Day opens in theaters nationwide on June 14, 2026.
