Barton wrote Encounter on spec in 2013 when it was called Invasion. Producers Dimitri Doganis, Piers Vellacott and Derrin Schlesinger brought it to Pearce after seeing his previous film, Beast.

Steven Spielberg's landmark "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is coming to DVD ($40) and Blu-ray Disc ($50) on Nov. 13, four days shy of the 30th anniversary of its 1977 theatrical opening.

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As a road movie slightly by the numbers, thundering across the Martian-like terrain of Oregon, California, and Nevada, Encounter could be lost in the long tradition of Thelma and Louise s.

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