On July 3, 1996, Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic Independence Day paid off months of hype to become an instant box-office smash. It was not just the highest-grossing film of the year, but one of the ...

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As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters ...

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Steven Spielberg has been making movies about aliens for half a century, and each blockbuster reflects the time in which it was made. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a post-Watergate movie about ...

Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, and Josh O'Connor share how their perspectives on extra-terrestrials and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) have changed since working on "Disclosure Day." ...

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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

Steven Spielberg thinks that real-life disclosures of UAPs are "really compelling" and "long overdue." Emily Blunt says she was "completely hooked" when she began researching accounts of supposed real ...