Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' Scores Best French Opening in a Decade

Steven Spielberg's latest film, "Disclosure Day," has achieved a strong opening in France, drawing 72,600 viewers on its first day. This marks the director's most successful opening in the country in a decade.

The science-fiction thriller, which features extraterrestrials, outperformed Quentin Dupieux's "Le Vertige," which attracted 14,000 viewers on its opening day. "Disclosure Day" also surpassed the launch of "Blade Runner 2049," another major science-fiction release from 2017, by opening on 680 screens.

This success echoes the performance of Spielberg's 2018 film "Ready Player One," which drew 82,000 French viewers on its opening day and went on to achieve 2.28 million admissions. In contrast, his more personal films like "The Fabelmans" (2022) had a more modest start, with 40,800 initial viewers, and "West Side Story" (2021) attracted only 21,000 on its first day, ultimately failing to reach one million admissions.

"Disclosure Day" also performed well in the United Kingdom and Ireland, earning $1.2 million. In the United States, where the film was set to release on June 12, advance screenings had already generated $6 million. The film is Spielberg's thirty-fifth feature and he will celebrate his 80th birthday in December.