Steven Spielberg’s First Great Sci-Fi Movie Finally Touches Down on Streaming
June 11, 2026 3,808 views

Steven Spielberg’s First Great Sci-Fi Movie Finally Touches Down on Streaming

By Sarah Collins
Steven Spielberg fans are preparing to head to the theater this weekend for the premiere of his first sci-fi movie in years, Disclosure Day. The film stars Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, and while specific details about the plot are still being kept under wraps, we do know that it takes place on the day that humans fin

Steven Spielberg fans are preparing to head to the theater this weekend for the premiere of his first sci-fi movie in years, Disclosure Day. The film stars Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, and while specific details about the plot are still being kept under wraps, we do know that it takes place on the day that humans find out they aren’t alone in the universe. Disclosure Day will be Steven Spielberg’s first sci-fi movie since 2018, when he teamed up with Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke for Ready Player One. Spielberg took a hiatus from the sci-fi genre in the last few years to focus on historical films such as The Fabelmans (starring Paul Dano) and West Side Story (starring Rachel Zegler). Still, he’s responsible for some of the most famous sci-fi movies ever made dating back over 50 years.

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.

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.

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'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.

Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.

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.

The official synopsis for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which earned marks of 91% from critics and 85% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:

“A power company worker becomes obsessed with a mysterious vision after a strange encounter, leading him to abandon his family and join a secret government project. When an alien mothership makes contact at a remote Wyoming mountain, he is chosen to be humanity’s first ambassador to an advanced extraterrestrial civilization.”

In addition to directing the film, Steven Spielberg also wrote the script for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Roy, Teri Garr as Ronnie, and Bob Balaban as David.

Check out Close Encounters of the Third Kind on Peacock, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Spielberg’s future projects.