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Close Encounters Special Edition released

When: Aug 1980
Sources: 1 public source

The mothership model; the Special Edition added a scene inside the ship Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Columbia released a recut Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The studio funded the reissue on condition that Steven Spielberg add a scene inside the alien mothership; he later said the interior should have stayed a mystery and dropped it from his 1998 cut.

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PressClose Encounters Of The Third Kind: comparing its three different cuts (opens in a new tab)Film Stories

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