Posted on 05/08/2026 8:30:18 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Steven Spielberg premiered a new trailer at CinemaCon on Wednesday for “Disclosure Day,” his return to summer blockbuster filmmaking after a decade mostly spent making personal dramas (“The Fabelmans”) and prestige fare (“West Side Story”).
The film’s plot has been shrouded in secrecy, but it involves visitors from another planet and a vast government conspiracy to cover up their arrival. It’s a genre that has been good to Spielberg over the years, inspiring classics such as “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and hits like his remake of “War of the Worlds.”...
“I’ve been curious ever since I was a little kid with what was happening in the night sky,” Spielberg said...
“The world became more accepting of the fact that we probably are not alone,” Spielberg said. The director’s certainty that intelligent life is out there has only grown in the nearly 50 years between the release of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Disclosure Day.”
At CinemaCon, Motion Picture Association CEO Charlie Rivkin presented a visibly emotional Spielberg with a “one-time honor, the America 250 award,” which was followed by a conversation... It marks Spielberg’s first visit to the exhibition industry trade show.
“I promise you this will not be my last,” Spielberg promised after receiving a standing ovation...
Spielberg stressed that studios like Universal need to keep investing in original films like “Disclosure Day” instead of reboots, sequels and spinoffs.
“If all we make is known, branded IP, we’re going to run out of gas,” Spielberg said. “There is nothing more important than giving the audience visual stories, and they can be in any form, but we need to tell more original stories.”
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Oh no! Hollywood keep making woke remakes, keep making woke remakes of cartoons, keep packing your woke-ness in to your collective colon and then spew it over digital media....
It’s what you think people want, it’s what you think people neeeeeed, it’s what you think people must swallow for (Your Needs) IE money, celebrity status and your smug feelings of superiority as you virtue single you way in to the neon heaven you bought on time share....
I watch primarily foreign language stuff on Netflix and MhzChoice.
Primarily Nordic noir even though it is about Godless atheists made by Godless atheists.
But that pretty much sums up Hollywood fare as well.
One of my favorites is not really Nordic but Austrian called Tatort:Vienna on Mhz Choice.
The shows are really ninety minutes movies with a man and woman detective.
You are prepared for heaping amounts of wokeness and ironically they are not as woke as American crapola.
There were three consecutive movies where the villain/murderer was either a tranny or a gay.
Could any series in America get away with that, I doubt it.
Movies largely turned to crap a good 15-20 years ago.
I thought it was a good movie
It’s about what happens when the grid gets taken out.
Scary thought .
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