After eight long years, director Steven Spielberg is back with a new sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day. While he has proven himself to be a master at virtually every genre in existence, there’s something about a new Spielberg sci-fi film that simply can’t be replicated. The new movie finds the legendary filmmaker revisiting themes and ideas he explored decades ago, in movies such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extraterrestrial, although this one shares more in common with two of Spielberg’s underrated sci-fi films — A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report. The movie is exceeding expectations at the box office in its opening weekend, on the strength of massive audience interest and positive reviews.
The box office has been on a hot streak for the past several weeks, with hits such as Obsession, Backrooms, and the Scary Movie reboot driving business. Before that, Project Hail Mary deployed Spielbergian tactics to deliver more than $680 million at the worldwide box office. Disclosure Day received positive early reactions, and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 81% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg’s most revisited themes, Disclosure Day‘s breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt.”
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
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.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
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.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
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 don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
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.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Here’s How Much ‘Disclosure Day’ Is Projected to Gross at the Box Office
Besides Blunt, the movie also features Josh O’Connor, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, and Colin Firth. In his review, Collider’s Nate Richard described Disclosure Day as “a summer blockbuster made for cinephiles, with no IP attachment and no overreliance on obvious Easter eggs.” The movie grossed more than $18 million at the domestic box office on opening day, which includes revenue from Thursday previews. It’s on track to gross around $45 million in its first weekend, which would put it $10 million ahead of the opening weekend haul of J.J. Abrams‘ Spielberg homage, Super 8. The Jaws director served as a producer on Super 8, which ultimately made around $260 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million. Disclosure Day comes with a reported production budget of $115 million, and is projected to gross more than $70 million in its global debut. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
