Disclosure Day is only Steven Spielberg’s 20th box office success

Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster has just crossed $100 million in revenue in the United States. A symbolic milestone for the filmmaker, but still insufficient to make his film profitable.

He’s a director from elsewhere.

With more than $100 million collected at the American box office, Disclosure Day becomes the 16th Steven Spielberg film to reach this highly symbolic milestone. No other director has done better: the filmmaker is well ahead of Robert Zemeckis (12 films), Ron Howard and Tim Burton (11 each).

At 79 years old, he enters a very closed circle: that of filmmakers over 75 years old who have signed a feature film with more than 100 million dollars in revenue in North America, a circle in which we find Clint Eastwood in particular (thanks to American Sniper) and Ridley Scott (thanks to Gladiator II).

This new success also allows Spielberg to consolidate his position as director having generated the most revenue at the world box office!

With nearly 11 billion dollars in cumulative revenue worldwide, he is still ahead of James Cameron, who is approaching 10.5 billion (but with a much less extensive filmography). Jurassic Park (1.1 billion), AND (850 million with outflows) and Indiana Jones 4 (750 million) are his biggest successes.

However, this is not enough to Disclosure Day. According to Variety, the film, produced for approximately $115 million, will need to gross between $287 million and $300 million worldwide to break even. However, the film has so far only earned around $220 million at the global box office.

Above all, this score remains modest on the scale of the filmmaker’s career.

With its 220 million dollars worldwide, Disclosure Day only ranks 20th among Steven Spielberg’s biggest hits. He does worse than Encounters of the Third Kind (306 million, taking into account outflows) or even Lincoln (275 million). On the other hand, he already scores much more than his last films: West Side Story (76 million in 2021) and The Fabelmans (46 million in 2022), which remains its lowest box office result after the crash Sugarland Express (12 million in 1974) – if we exclude Duel (1971), produced as a television film.

In reality, Steven Spielberg’s last huge commercial triumph dates back to 2018 with Ready Player Onewhich had exceeded $600 million in worldwide revenue.