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Where Is Steven Spielberg? New Film Set to Recapture Excitement of “ET,” “Close Encounters” Planned for 2026

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While there’s chaos around us, where is Steven Spielberg?

The Oscar winning giant of a director has gone quiet the last year or so after delivering his autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans.”

But Spielberg is not sitting at home reading his old notices.

He’s been creating a new film for 2026.

The sci fi film is untitled. It’s set to recapture the vast drama and emotional impact of Spielberg’s films like “ET” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Spielberg has an all star cast with Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Josh O’Connor, Colman Domingo, and two accomplished nepo babies — Wyatt Russell, son Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell; and Eve Hewson, daughter of U2’s Bono.

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At one point, Spielberg was filming day and night in Cape May, NJ during the off season. The film was listed “Non-View” on call sheets

“[Spielberg] wrote the story for this new thing that we’re about to start shooting,” screenwriter David Koepp said in an interview this past winter.

Spielberg has always been prescient with his sci-fi films. Right now, “Minority Report,” about a new kind of fascism in crime fighting, looks like it was predicting our present.

“Untitled Steven Spielberg Project'” has a tentative release date of June 12, 2026.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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