Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment announced today that U.S. audiences will soon be able to experience Steven Spielberg’s classics E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial and Jaws on Imax screens nationwide for the first time. E.T. will be released exclusively on Imax beginning August 12, in celebration of the film’s 40th Anniversary, with Jaws to be released on Imax and in RealD 3D beginning September 2.E.T.
The Extra-Terrestrial told the story of a troubled child who summoned the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Originally released in the summer of 1982, the film soared to become the highest-grossing film of the year, capturing four Academy Awards and nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and has endured as a universal favorite in the decades since.Based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws saw a killer shark unleash chaos on a beach community off Long Island, with a local sheriff, a marine biologist and an old seafarer then teaming up to hunt the beast down.
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