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Steven Spielberg took the stage at CinemaCon for the first time in his career to promote his upcoming global release, Disclosure day.
After an introduction by star Colman Domingo, the director received a standing ovation from the annual movie theater owners conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Spielberg accepted the Motion Picture Association’s America250 Award from the group’s president, Charles Rifkin, in celebration of the director’s work that embraces the nation’s wonders.
“I haven’t done a Western yet, and this is next,” the 79-year-old director said. He noted that his debut on the CinemaCon stage was great: “I promise this won’t be the last.”
He recalled his first visit to the cinema, saying: “Nothing could compete with sitting in the first three rows of the Cinema Palace, watching Cecil B. DeMille’s epic in Technicolor. Nothing will ever be the same.”
“Sometimes, to me, it feels like a cage battle between the small screen and the big screen,” Spielberg admitted. He noted that the theater experience had “taken a hit” due to Covid but added: “There was reason for hope.” He went on to praise projects like Chloé Zhao’s Hamnetwho considered Spielberg as a producer.
Afterwards, the director sat on stage with Domingo to discuss show business, as Spielberg recalls inviting his childhood friends to his parents’ house to screen famous films. “I made money by charging 12 cents for popcorn,” he joked.
Turn to Disclosure dayThe director explained that he had long been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life. “I’ve been curious since I was a little kid about what happens in the night sky, and what happens in the daytime sky,” Spielberg said. He remembered that his father used to tell him about “advanced civilizations” that did not exist on Earth.
Spielberg pointed to 2017 New York Times A story about a Navy pilot who discovers something on camera that can’t be explained. “In 2017, I felt very curious again,” he said, noting his strange feature. Close Encounters of the Third Kind It was made 50 years ago. “Half a century later, I did Disclosure day With the certainty that there is much more truth than fiction in what you will see on June 12.
Who said? Disclosure day“I really think this movie will answer questions and make you ask a lot of questions.” He also joked: “This movie is an experience, and all you need from start to finish is a seat belt.”
Spielberg showed new footage from the film, which stars Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, and chronicles what would happen if humanity obtained evidence of the existence of non-human intelligent life. Disclosure day It marks Spielberg’s first new film since 2022 Fabelmans It also stars Domingo, Colin Firth, Wyatt Russell and Eve Hewson.
The footage shows Blunt as a meteorologist who finds herself unable to speak during a live segment. Describing the widely circulated footage of Blunt’s weather broadcast, O’Connor noted that he could understand the chatter: “It’s the math.”
Viewers see an emotional reunion between O’Connor and Blunt. He says, “I know you,” and she replies, “I know you, too.” There was also a lot of action in the store, as Blunt tries to jump from a car onto a moving train. The footage ends with the film’s first look at what alien life might be like.
Disclosure day It marks Spielberg’s return to the UFO genre, and fans have speculated that it may be a sequel to the 1977 film. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Blunt said recently empire magazine, “There are definitely questions it raises Close encounters Which is answered in Disclosure day“.
Appearing at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival last month, Spielberg said: “I don’t know any more than any of you, but I have a very strong suspicion that we’re not alone here on Earth right now — and I made a movie about it.”
The footage comes a day after Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna’s deadline arrived and she headed to the Pentagon to declassify and release several specific video files she requested that allegedly show previously unseen instances of UAP/UFOs activity.
On Tuesday, Luna posted the following update on
Universal can only hope that any such videos – which will no doubt help build significant buzz for the film – will be released in time for the opening weekend of Disclosure daywhich will be released on June 12.
