The re-release of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind has opened with $95,000 on Thursday night at 809 North American sites.
Close Encounters, which initially launched in 1977, is expanding Friday to 901 venues, including 400 premium large format locations. The 4K restoration of the sci-fi classic, starring Richard Dreyfuss, carries modest expectations with forecasts of less than $1 million for the four-day Labor Day weekend during which overall business is expected to be the slowest in more than a decade.
The original Close Encounters was a critical and commercial success, earning $132 million at the domestic box office and nine Academy Award nominations (and two wins).
