Steven Spielberg's UFO project postpons its premiere in cinemas for a month

Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures are underway an exciting film project of Steven Spielberg.

The film, even without an official title, is a Original UFO projectpreviously dated to premiere in cinemas on May 15, 2026, in full summer film, or summer blockbusters, a title coined by film connoisseurs with the releases of Jaws y Raiders of the Lost Ark of Spielberg himself.

The most recent novelties, shared by Variety, announce that Universal has modified the launch of the Spielberg projectpostponing it a month. Instead of launching on May 15, will arrive on the big screen on June 12, 2026continuing in the summer season in cinema.

This new release date relocates in the calendar strategically, creating distance with two high profile releases of that season (Avengers: Doomsday May 1 and The Mandalorian and Grogu of May 22). Now he shares the release date with the new delivery of the franchise Scary Movieand debuts a week before Toy Story 5.

At the moment, the Spielberg project has not shared details about the plot, filming and official title, although Universal describes it as “New original event movie.”

The cast is signed right now to Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Josh O’Connor (Challengers), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), y Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple).

The script of David coeppis based on an original idea of ​​Spielberg.

KOEPP has written Spielberg's movies as Jurassic Parkthe sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Will also write the script of the reboot that prepares Jurassic World.

The UFO film will mark Spielberg's return to science fiction, a genre approached by the filmmaker after the premiere of the iconic Jaws (1975), with the acclaimed Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) y E.T. (1982). Decades later he made A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), War of the Worlds (2005), y Ready Player One (2018).

Your most recent projects are drama The Fabelmans and the remake of West Side Story.