Steven Spielberg, alien and Disclosure Day

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How Steven Spielberg's Very First Feature Film Foreshadowed Disclosure Day
The film was called "Firelight," and like "E.T.," "Close Encounters," "War of the Worlds," and now "Disclosure Day," it told a story about aliens arriving on Earth from another planet.

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Steven Spielberg’s career has been an alien crusade culminating in ‘Disclosure Day’
Why Steven Spielberg says he 'would not be the right person' to make first contact with aliens
Stephen Spielberg Just Confirmed What E.T. Felt Like, And It's Gross
Speaking to the New York Times recently, director Steven Spielberg answered an E.T. question he said he’d never been asked before.

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Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
Disclosure Day ’s Climactic Scene Is Stolen by an Unknown Actor. She Had No Idea This Was Coming.
As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
A clip of the interview has gone mildly viral, featuring interviewer Rachel Abrams straight-out asking Spielberg “Was ET slimy or dry?” before suggesting that this is a decades-old conundrum that had ...

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Steven Spielberg rejects Emily Blunt claim he suggested AI for Disclosure Day’s alien noises: ‘You get a dolphin, or an elephant’
For Steven Spielberg, adventure is just a temporary affair

The 25 Best Alien Movies of All Time, Ranked

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

5 best Netflix movies about aliens to stream now

Our guide on the five best movies about aliens to stream on Netflix right now.

All 5 Steven Spielberg Movies With Aliens, Ranked

Five Steven Spielberg movies have been about aliens, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Disclosure Day, but which of them is the best?
Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert’s Best and Worst Alien Movies

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to take another look at what Roger Ebert thought about some of the most famous and infamous alien movies,

What is it with Spielberg and space aliens? We break down his career-long fixation

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Creative Assembly says Alien: Isolation 2 will draw inspiration from the first Alien movie again

Creative Assembly has confirmed that Alien: Isolation 2 will take place months after the first game and is once again inspired by the first Alien movie.

33 Years Later: Why 'Fire In the Sky' is Considered the Scariest Alien Movie

With his new movie, Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg wonders how humankind would react to undeniable proof of the existence of extraterrestrials. It’s a subject that pop culture has been fascinated with for decades now,