Steven Spielberg Praises Universal For Commitment To 45-Day Window — “Do I Hear 60?” — In Appearance At His First CinemaCon With ‘Disclosure Day’

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Steven Spielberg praised NBCUniversal Entertainment chair Donna Langley for moving to a 45-day exclusive theatrical window, accepted an award from the Motion Pictures Association, and sat down with Colman Domingo at CinemaCon to talk about his upcoming film Disclosure Day, a thriller about extraterrestrial life.

The subject has always fascinated him, as evident from some of his early work, especially because “It’s entirely shrouded in mystery,” he told Domingo, one of the films stars, in a Q&A on stage. “There are those who know exactly what is happening in our skies [and] this movie will cause you to ask a lot of questions.” The idea of interplanetary life was mostly a great story to tell 50 years ago in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, he said. But, in the years, since, the idea has become more widely accepted.

“This is a movie that needs to be

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