Weekend Box Office: DISCLOSURE DAY Wins the Day With $44M

Key Takeaways

Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:
$119,424,684 | -34% Last Week / -22% Weekend 24, 2025

Steven Spielberg flexed his box office muscles once again with a solid opening for Disclosure Day at $44M, while Scary Movie and Masters of the Universe suffered drops of over -70% each. We are behind last week as well as year-over-year from 2025, when the live-action How to Train Your Dragon breathed $84.6M worth of fire into multiplexes.

• Top Title: Disclosure Day (Universal) | $44M / 3,824 Screens / $11,506 PSA | Week 1
• Top Opener: Disclosure Day (Universal) | $44M / 3,824 Screens / $11,506 PSA | Week 1
• Best PSA: Disclosure Day (Universal) | $44M / 3,824 Screens / $11,506 PSA | Week 1

1. Disclosure Day
Universal Pictures | NEW
$44M 3-Day Opening Weekend | $92.8M Global Total

It’s summer, it’s aliens, it’s Steven Spielberg. That classic trifecta continued to work a charm as Universal Pictures launched the director’s latest to an estimated $44M from 3,824 screens for a $11,506 Per Screen Average. This is smack dab in the middle of our panel’s forecast for this title, giving Disclosure Day a solid start exactly on-par with our comp movie Nope, an original Universal alien movie that debuted to $44.36M in summer 2022 before totaling $123.27M. Disclosure Day’s $44M bow is also in the ballpark of Spielberg’s 2018 blockbuster Ready Player One, which opened with $41.76M before closing out domestic at $137.69M. We can safely predict Disclosure Day will eventually reach the century mark as well.

Here’s how the 3-Day looked, including $6.5M in Thursday previews…

• Friday – $19.2M
• Saturday – $13.85M
• Sunday – $10.95M

This is nowhere near the $64.87M War of the Worlds opened with two decades ago, but that movie had title recognition, a megastar (Tom Cruise), and a lot more explosive action. Disclosure Day is based on an original story that’s more talky and adult-leaning, with 59% of the audience in the 35+ bracket, 41% in 45+, and 24% in 55+. Teens only made up 3% of ticket buyers. Rotten Tomatoes posted soft-positive reactions (80% critical, 73% audience), but the “B” CinemaScore might be a sign of steep drops next frame as it goes up against four quadrant behemoth Toy Story 5. Overall, this is a fine opening owed largely to the Spielberg brand and his strong presence on the promo circuit.

Audiences were majority male at 57%. Here’s how demographics looked…

• Caucasian – 56%
• Hispanic – 18%
• African American – 12%
• Asian – 8%
• NATAM/Other – 6%

PLF screens were responsible for 48% of the gross, with IMAX alone generating 17% for $7.3M on 425 screens ($13.8M globally). Exhibitor-branded PLF screens made a combined 30%. The 19 screens showing the movie on 70mm film prints made 1% of the weekend.

While Disclosure Day did Ready Player One-level opening numbers domestically, we do not expect it to match that movie’s 3X multiplier international performance. Disclosure Day matched domestic at $48.87M from 21,861 locations across 73 territories, for a WW haul of $92.87M. That’s above comparable alien movies like A Quiet Place (also with Emily Blunt) and Arrival in like markets, though not the makings of a major global blockbuster. Top 3 markets were the UK/Ireland ($7.57M), Mexico ($3.9M), and China ($2.95M).

Other Notable Performances

On the indie horror watch, Focus Features’ Obsession had its biggest drop in Frame 5 at -25% for $19M, though it actually jumped UP two notches to #2 since Scary Movie and Masters of the Universe both dived over -70%. Another incredible performance in the continued success of this film, now at $188.38M and scheduled to cross the $200M mark this coming week. Meanwhile, A24’s Backrooms dropped a spot to #4 and -57% with $11.26M for $160M total, putting it on track to surpass the box office of Jordan Peele’s debut Get Out ($176M) soon.

Lionsgate’s Michael is at #7 this week with $4.1M, pushing it over the edge to pass Bohemian Rhapsody ($903.65M) on the global front to become the #1 music biopic of all time with $932.2M. If Lionsgate keeps it in theaters long enough, there’s a slight possibility of $1B, but it may fall just shy.

Next Weekend

It’s a big one next frame, possibly the biggest movie of the summer: Toy Story 5. The previous four entries plus the Lightyear spinoff have earned over $3B globally. Pixar’s quality control and long gaps between installments have ensured that this remains a blue chip franchise, and we are expecting a debut far north of $100M. In counter-programming, A24 is bringing out the dark revisionist flick The Death of Robin Hood, with Hugh Jackman as the aging folk hero.

Sunday Studio Estimates | Weekend 24 – 2026
Total 3-Day Domestic Gross: $119,424,684 | (-22% vs 2025)