Steven Spielberg's 'reportedly UFO-related' movie doesn't even have a name yet, but it has a release date

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Let's hope it's better than the last UFO movie he did—spoiler—Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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It's a weird facet of Hollywood that movies are often given release dates before other important milestones have been reached, like the movies being finished, or the movies being named, or sometimes the movies having even been written. I get it—big studios want to lock down that release date real estate before someone else grabs it—but it's still strange to announce a date when people will be able to go see a movie, then turn to the production team and say, "OK, so… what's our movie gonna be about?"

Case in point: Steven Spielberg's upcoming film has a cast that includes Emily Blunt and Colin Firth, but apparently still doesn't have a name—IMDB calls it "Untitled Steven Spielberg Amblin Universal Event Film." Catchy! It does, however, have a release date. According to Variety, it's coming out on June 12, 2026, which is a move from its original release date of May 15, 2026.

Why am I even writing about this? Well, Spielberg has always had ties to gaming, contributing to the design of LucasArts adventure game The Dig in the '90s and creating Medal of Honor with Electronic Arts in the 2000s. It's not all good stuff, though: he made a pretty bad game called Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair in 1996, plus he directed Ready Player One in 2018. That had some UFO business in it, too—Unwatchable Film Offenses. Yes! Gottem.

Christopher Livingston
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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.