Steven Spielberg's Costly Regret: The Scene That Haunts His Iconic Film
Steven Spielberg regrets compromising and including a scene inside the alien mothership in his iconic film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, due to studio demands. The movie, which became a cult favorite and earned $288 million at the box office, was almost condemned to production hell by the studio. Spielberg's dissatisfaction with the altered scene led to a Director's Cut in 1998, which removed the controversial scene.