Steven Spielberg and Emily Blunt’s Disclosure Day lands a digital release date

Here’s one for your calendar: Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi alien caper, 'Disclosure Day', now has a confirmed digital release date. If you missed Emily Blunt getting invaded by intergalactic intelligence on the big screen, you’ll soon be able to put your feet up and watch her linguistic oddities from the comfort of your sofa.

Digital Release: Mark 21 July 2026

So, the official word is that 'Disclosure Day' will hit digital and video-on-demand platforms from 21 July 2026. You’ll find it on Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango at Home – basically everywhere you’d expect, short of being broadcast directly into your mind like Emily Blunt’s character. The film is still clinging on in a handful of cinemas if you want that last-smell-of-popcorn experience.

Plot: Emily Blunt Channels the Universe

The basic gist: Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a meteorologist who gets possessed by an alien entity. Rather than going full 'Exorcist', she wakes up with the ability to speak every language on earth and access the personal secrets of complete strangers. Not your average Tuesday, really. She joins forces with Daniel, a cybersecurity expert, and together they end up digging into a cover-up that, naturally, has been ticking away for decades. There’s plenty going on beneath the surface, both literally and metaphorically.

Cast & Crew: Spielberg, Blunt, and a Strong Line-Up

• Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild
• Josh O'Connor
• Eve Hewson
• Colin Firth
• Wyatt Russell
• Colman Domingo
• Directed by Steven Spielberg (who also co-wrote the story)
• Screenplay by David Koepp
• Produced by Kristie Macosko Krieger & Spielberg

How's It Gone Down?

The film came out on 12 June this year and has been doing solid business at the box office: $44.5 million domestic opening, $229.1 million worldwide so far, on a budget sitting at around $115 million. Not too shabby for a cerebral alien movie.

Critically, it's landed rather well. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 80% on the Tomatometer (so, mostly positive) and a 70% Popcornmeter, which means audiences are mostly on board too. Some reviews even called it a 'pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy', which is probably the longest phrase anyone's managed to use about aliens without mentioning Roswell. Others have pointed out its 'deep exploration of human connection resonates with remarkable reach' – rather a mouthful, but you get the point.

If you're into the 'what was Spielberg up to?' conversation, here's a bit of flavour from Richard Brody at The New Yorker:

'Spielberg's vision in Disclosure Day suggests audacity, even recklessness, two qualities that have often been wanting in his movies. There’s a sense of freedom, of a work pulled from deep within.'

On the other hand, a vocal pocket of viewers were less taken by the film's abrupt ending, with more than one person dryly observing that 'nothing was disclosed.' Not that this has stopped people speculating about a possible sequel — there's definitely chatter about 'Disclosure Day 2' doing the rounds.