Editing Eyes Wide Shut (section)

==Release==
===Marketing===
Warner Bros. heavily promoted ''Eyes Wide Shut'', while following Kubrick's secrecy campaign – to the point that the film's [[press kit]]s contained no production notes, not even the director's suggestions to Semel regarding the marketing campaign, given one week prior to Kubrick's death.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Campbell|first1=Duncan|title=Mouths wide shut for new Kubrick film|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/10/duncancampbell|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=February 18, 2018|date=July 10, 1999|archive-date=February 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090158/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/10/duncancampbell|url-status=live}}</ref> The first footage was shown to theater owners attending the 1999 [[ShoWest]] convention in Las Vegas. TV spots featured both Isaak and Ligeti's music from the soundtrack, while revealing little about the movie's plot.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Natale|first1=Richard|title=ShoWest to Get Quick Glimpse of Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-09-ca-15328-story.html|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 9, 1999|access-date=February 18, 2018|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116031144/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/mar/09/entertainment/ca-15328|url-status=live}}</ref> The film also appeared on the cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, and on show business programs such as ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' and ''[[Access Hollywood]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-05-ca-53039-story.html|title=The Way Kubrick Would Have Wanted|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 5, 1999|author=Welkos, Robert W.|access-date=October 27, 2012|archive-date=July 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723090716/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/05/entertainment/ca-53039|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Box office===
''Eyes Wide Shut'' opened on July 16, 1999, in the United States. The film topped the week-end box office, with $21.7&nbsp;million from 2,411 screens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1999&wknd=29&p=.htm|title=Weekend Box Office: July 16–18, 1999 Weekend|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=October 22, 2012|archive-date=October 17, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017211414/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=1999&wknd=29&p=.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> These numbers surpassed the studio's expectations of $20&nbsp;million, and became both Cruise's sixth consecutive chart topper and Kubrick's highest opening week-end as well as the highest featuring Kidman and Cruise together.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-19-ca-57357-story.html|title='Eyes' Sees Its Way to Top Spot|date=July 19, 1999|first=Richard|last=Natale|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 22, 2012|archive-date=September 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903222955/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/19/entertainment/ca-57357|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/398234.stm|date=July 19, 1999|title=Eyes Wide Shut opens on top|work=BBC News|access-date=October 28, 2012|archive-date=October 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015222816/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/398234.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Eyes Wide Shut'' ended up grossing a total of $55,691,208 in the US. The numbers put it as Kubrick's second-highest-grossing film in the country, behind ''2001: A Space Odyssey'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/person/80270401-Stanley-Kubrick|title=Stanley Kubrick – Box Office History|website=The Numbers|access-date=November 9, 2012|archive-date=October 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004035532/http://www.the-numbers.com/person/80270401-Stanley-Kubrick|url-status=live}}</ref> but both were considered a box office disappointment.<ref name="genius">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-12-ca-9258-story.html|title=Remembering a Difficult Genius|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 12, 2001|author=King, Susan|access-date=November 9, 2012|archive-date=November 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113070731/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jun/12/entertainment/ca-9258|url-status=live}}</ref>

Shortly after its screening at the [[Venice Film Festival]], ''Eyes Wide Shut'' had a British premiere on September 3, 1999, at the [[Warner Village Cinemas|Warner Village cinema]] in [[Leicester Square]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/437224.stm|work=BBC News|date=September 3, 1999|title=Stars flock to Kubrick premiere|access-date=October 22, 2012|archive-date=October 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002213942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/437224.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's wide opening occurred the following week-end, and topped the U.K. charts with £1,189,672.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-box-office-1120316.html|title=FILM: BOX OFFICE|date=September 19, 1999|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London|access-date=August 27, 2017|archive-date=February 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090208/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-box-office-1120316.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The international performances for ''Eyes Wide Shut'' were more positive, with Kubrick's long-time assistant and brother-in-law [[Jan Harlan]] stating that "It was badly received in the Anglo-Saxon world, but it was very well received in the Latin world and Japan. In Italy, it was a huge hit."<ref name="genius" /> Overseas earnings of over $105&nbsp;million led to a $162,091,208 box office run world-wide, turning it into the highest-grossing Kubrick film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/name/nm0000040/|title=Stanley Kubrick|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=December 22, 2019|archive-date=December 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222143803/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/name/nm0000040/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Home media===
''Eyes Wide Shut'' was first released on [[VHS]] and [[DVD]] on March 7, 2000.<ref name="press">{{cite press release|url=http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/news/press/ews_pressrelease.html|title='Kubrick's Definitive Film & Haunting Final Masterpiece' and 1999's Most Talked About Film Debuts on VHS and DVD|publisher=Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|date=February 24, 2000|access-date=November 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617155937/http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/news/press/ews_pressrelease.html|archive-date=June 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The original DVD release corrects technical gaffes, including a reflected crew member, and altering a piece of Alice Harford's dialogue. Most home videos remove the verse that was claimed to be cited from the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita (although it was Pook's reworking of "Backwards Priests" as stated above). In the UK, [[Warner Home Video]]'s 'rated 18' [no video altering] 1999 DVD release was in 4:3 full frame aspect ratio, with a note at the beginning that this was as Kubrick intended it to be shown [ratio as shot]. However, the film's length on this UK DVD is only 153 minutes, as opposed to the 159 minutes of other available DVD and [[Blu-ray]] versions. This is due to the transfer being done at 25 [[Frame rate|frames per second]] rather than 24 as shot; no actual footage was cut.

On October 23, 2007, Warner released ''Eyes Wide Shut'' in a special edition DVD, plus the HD DVD and Blu-ray disc formats.<ref>{{cite web |last=McCutcheon |first=David |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08/03/kubrick-overload |title=Kubrick Overload! |website=IGN |date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=August 22, 2014 |archive-date=May 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526011649/http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08/03/kubrick-overload |url-status=live}}</ref> This is the first home video release that presents the film in anamorphic 1.78:1 (16:9) format (the film was shown theatrically as soft matted 1.66:1 in Europe and 1.85:1 in the US and Japan). The previous DVD release used a 1.33:1 (4:3) aspect ratio. It is also the first American home video release to feature the uncut version. Although the earliest American DVD of the uncut version states on the cover that it includes both the R-rated and unrated editions, in actuality only the unrated edition is on the DVD.