2017 is the fortieth day of remembrance of Steven Spielberg ’s scifi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind and to celebrate , it ’s coming back to theater .
Aftera teaser video recording was releasedthis hebdomad to celebrate World UFO Day , Sony confirms the celluloid will be back on the adult screen in the U.S. and Canada for one week set out September 1 . There are no details beyond that but you should probably take up checker your local theaters for more selective information .
airless Encounters was in the beginning released November 16 , 1977 . It was Spielberg ’s follow - up to Jaws , which made it highly anticipated indeed . Plus , it was a great , Hollywood , science fiction film mere months after Spielberg ’s protagonist , George Lucas , unblock his own scifi film , a little flick shout out Star Wars .
Riding those two things , as well as great reviews , the film was a hit , grossing almost $ 120 million in the U.S. and nearly $ 300 worldwide . Later , it buy the farm onto get eight Oscar nominations , though it only won one , for cinematography ( and who can argue with that ? ) .
Most now count back at Close Encounters not only as a pivotal film in the science fiction genre , but a formative photographic film in Spielberg ’s overall evolution too . With it , he start to incur the happy mass medium between big spectacle and personal stories that would later dish out him so well , not the least of which was a few years after with E.T. The Extra Terrestrial . Plus , it ’s a movie that begs for a giant screen .
For more on the Close Encounters rerelease , keep an eye onwww.wearestillnotalone.com .
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