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“Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi epic, is poised to be one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters when it opens nationwide tomorrow, and yet it won’t be showing at Eureka’s Broadway Cinema. 

Actress Emily Blunt on the poster for “Disclosure Day.”

Nor will it be shown on opening weekend in any of the 14 other theaters owned by the Coming Attractions Cinema, the Ashland, Ore.-based chain with locations in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Why not? Company reps didn’t offer a clear explanation when contacted by the Outpost except to say that the decision stems from a disagreement with Universal Pictures, the Hollywood studio distributing the film.  

When we reached Coming Attractions Sales and Marketing Director Kim Neufeld by phone this morning and asked about the absence of “Disclosure Day” in the online list of movies showing tomorrow, she put us on hold for a few minutes before coming back on to say she needed time to look into it and would call back.

Instead, she emailed a bit later, saying, “After lengthy discussions with the studio, we have chosen not to play Disclosure Day at this time.” She encouraged people to check the theater’s website for weekly updates to movie listings and upcoming releases.

We emailed back to request more details — including whether this beef with the studio means Coming Attractions theaters will not be showing other upcoming Universal-distributed films such as “Monsters and Minions” and Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” — but we have yet to hear back. 

The Outpost also left a message via a receptionist for Jim Orr, Universal Pictures’ president of domestic theatrical distribution. We’ll update this post if he gets back to us.

Meanwhile, Arcata’s Minor Theatre had no trouble booking “Disclosure Day” for opening weekend, according to owner Josh Neff. 

“We used the same booking reps like everyone else,” Neff said, adding that he was unaware of any anomalies with the film’s distribution.

Movie theaters suffered major economic losses during the COVID pandemic, and in the years since, Coming Attractions permanently closed several of its locations, including Mill Creek Cinema in McKinleyville. However, box office returns have rebounded in 2026 thanks to a string of hits. 

One of those blockbusters is “Obsession,” a small-budget horror film that has broken multiple box office records, raking in $224 million and counting. But none of those dollars came from Coming Attractions locations., because “Obsession” hasn’t shown at any of them. The movie is distributed by Focus Features, which is owned by Comcast as a unit of (you guessed it) Universal Pictures.