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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 5pm Saturday in NZ, 3pm in Sydney and 4am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977 and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial from 1982.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).
Close Encounters was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science-fiction film. Though Spielberg received sole credit for the script, he was assisted by Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Jerry Belson, all of whom contributed to the screenplay in varying degrees.
The title is derived from Ufologist J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with extraterrestrials, in which the third kind denotes human observations of extraterrestrials or "animate beings".
Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the extraterrestrials.
Made on a production budget of $19.4 million, Close Encounters was released in a limited number of cities on 16 November, 1977 and 23 November, 1977 before expanding into wide release the following month.
It was a critical and financial success, eventually grossing over $300 million worldwide.
The film received numerous awards and nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, 32nd British Academy Film Awards, the 35th Golden Globe Awards and the 5th Saturn Awards, and has been widely acclaimed by the American Film Institute.
In December 2007, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
A Special Edition of the film, featuring both shortened and newly added scenes, was released theatrically in 1980.
Spielberg agreed to do the special edition to add more scenes that they were unable to include in the original release, with the studio demanding a controversial scene depicting the interior of the extraterrestrial mothership.
Spielberg's dissatisfaction with the altered ending scene led to a third version of the film, referred to as the Director's Cut, that was issued on VHS and LaserDisc in 1998 (and later DVD and Blu-ray).
The director's cut is the longest version of the film, combining Spielberg's favorite elements from both previous editions but removing the scenes inside the extraterrestrial mothership.
The film was later remastered in 4K and re-released in theatres on 1 September, 2017 for its 40th anniversary.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg.
Produced by: Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips.
Written by: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon and François Truffaut.
Music by: John Williams.
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond.
Edited by: Michael Kahn.
Production company: EMI Films.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures.
Release date: 16 November , 1977.
File length: 131 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $19.4 million.
Box office: $306.1 million.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison.
It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E.T., who is stranded on Earth.
The film stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore.
The concept was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce.
In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the failed project Night Skies.
Filming took place from September to December 1981 on a budget of $10.5 million (equivalent to $25 million in 2019 dollars).
Unlike most films, it was shot in rough chronological order, to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast.
The animatronics of E.T. were designed by Carlo Rambaldi.
Released on 11 June, 1982, by Universal Pictures, E.T. was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time —a record it held for 11 years until Jurassic Park, another Spielberg-directed film, surpassed it.
E.T. was widely acclaimed by critics and is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, and it won four Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards: Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing.
It was re-released in 1985, and again in 2002, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, with altered shots, visual effects, and additional scenes.
In 1994, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being designated as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Directed by: Steven Spielberg.
Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.
Written by: Melissa Mathison.
Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore.
Music by: John Williams.
Cinematography: Allen Daviau.
Edited by: Carol Littleton.
Production Company: Amblin Productions.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures.
Release date: 26 May , 1982 ( Cannes) 11 June , 1982 (United States).
File Length: 106 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $10.5 million.
Box office: $792.9 million.
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