Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind is hitting theaters for one week beginning Sept. 1 in honor of the film’s 40th anniversary. Sony Pictures has remastered the director’s cut in 4K for theaters in the U.S. and Canada. It will have its world premiere in the Venezia Classici section of the Venice Film Festival.
Close Encounters, released in December 1977, stars Richard Dreyfuss as a line worker who has a close encounter with an alien intelligence and feels drawn to a wilderness area where something important will soon happen. The film also stars Melinda Dillon and François Truffaut.
The film earned $303 million worldwide on a $20 million budget and was nominated for eight Oscars, winning best cinematography and a special achievement award for sound effects editing.
Here’s the trailer Sony has released in preparation for the restoration:
