Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” is the No. 1 movie on Peacock in the U.S., and it has held the top spot for nearly a week since landing on the streamer.
The alien thriller is first on FlixPatrol’s Oct. 17 Peacock rankings, ahead of “The Grinch,” “Monster House,” and “Coraline.” FlixPatrol had it at No. 1 every day from Oct. 12 through Oct. 17, and FandomWire reported it had already reached the top of Peacock’s chart on Oct. 11. The movie started streaming exclusively on Peacock on Oct. 9, according to the streamer.
The Story
Emily Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, a Kansas City meteorologist whose live broadcast is interrupted by a strange event. Josh O’Connor plays Dr. Daniel Kellner, a cybersecurity specialist, and the two end up on the run from a group trying to bury evidence that aliens have been living on Earth, Space.com wrote.
Colin Firth plays Noah Scanlon, the CEO of a company called Wardex. Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson and Wyatt Russell are also in the cast.
It’s Spielberg’s 37th feature and his first UFO movie since “War of the Worlds” in 2005, according to Peacock. David Koepp, who wrote “Jurassic Park,” came up with the story with Spielberg.
Spielberg’s Best Opening for an Original Movie
Universal released “Disclosure Day” in theaters on June 12. It opened at No. 1 with $44 million in the U.S. and Canada and $92.9 million worldwide, the Associated Press reported. Not adjusted for inflation, that was the best opening weekend of Spielberg’s career for an original film. It was also his first summer movie in 10 years.
“It played very, very evenly across all of the U.S. and Canada,” Jim Orr, Universal’s head of distribution, told the AP.
The movie went on to make $241 million worldwide. The AP put its production budget at $115 million. Space.com, counting marketing, estimated the total cost at about $200 million and said it wasn’t the big hit the studio had hoped for.
What Critics and Audiences Thought
“Disclosure Day” has a 79% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes from 442 reviews, and audiences there give it 69%. Opening-weekend moviegoers gave it a B CinemaScore. It runs 2 hours and 25 minutes and is rated PG-13.
“Friday the 13th” also entered Peacock’s movie top 10 on Oct. 17, two days after the streamer released its prequel series, “Crystal Lake.”
“Disclosure Day” is streaming now on Peacock.
