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Four heads were created for filming, one as the main animatronic and the others for facial expressions, as well as a costume. The film was an immediate blockbuster, surpassing Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for eleven years until Spielberg's own Jurassic Park surpassed it in 1993. Thomas, who auditioned in an Indiana Jones costume, did not perform well in the formal testing, but got the filmmakers' attention in an improvised scene. The two-disc DVD release which followed on October 22, 2002, contained the original theatrical and 20th Anniversary extended versions of the film.
He later added it to his "Great Movies" list, structuring the essay as a letter to his grandchildren about the first time they watched it. The VHS cassette was also rented over six million times during its first two weeks in 1988, a record it held until the VHS release of Batman the following year. For the role of Elliott, he auditioned hundreds of boys, [23] including Keith Coogan; [24] before Jack Fisk suggested Henry Thomas for the role because Henry had played the part of Harry in the film Raggedy Man, which Fisk had directed. Spielberg felt that actors in the roles, performing lines of technical medical dialogue, would come across as unnatural. The film holds a 99% "Certified Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 136 reviews, and an average rating of 9.
There were allegations that the film was plagiarized from The Alien, a 1967 script by Indian director Satyajit Ray, who stated, " E. Robert MacNaughton auditioned eight times to play Michael, sometimes with boys auditioning for Elliott. Ralph Macchio was considered for the role of Tyler, before it went to his eventual The Outsiders co-star C. won four Academy Awards: Best Original Score, Best Sound ( Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, and Gene Cantamessa), Best Sound Effects Editing ( Charles L. In early summer 1981, while Raiders of the Lost Ark was being promoted, Columbia Pictures met with Spielberg to discuss the script, after having to develop Night Skies with the director as the intended sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
No matter how much time it takes, our goal has always remained the same–to create products that inspire your life's best moments–the big, the small, the funny, the spooky, and the sweet. Spielberg was consulted by Comcast (parent company of NBCUniversal, which itself owns Universal Pictures) before production on the commercial began.We put out the digitally enhanced version with the additional scenes and for no extra money, in the same package, we put out the original '82 version. In July 1982, during the film's first theatrical run, Spielberg and Mathison wrote a treatment for a sequel to be titled E. Mary becomes horrified upon discovering her son's illness and the dying alien, just as a group of government agents dressed in biohazard suits led by "Keys" invades the house. Buckland, Warren (2006), Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, p.
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