Editing Capricorn One (section)

==Release==
The film originally was scheduled to debut in the United States in February 1978, but good [[preview screening]]s and delays in ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'' caused it to move to May.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/releaseinfo/ |title=Capricorn One (1977) - Release info - IMDb |language=en-US |access-date=2024-11-23 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2025}} ''Capricorn One'' became the year's most-successful [[independent film]].<ref name="Szebin" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/28/archives/what-if-a-mars-landing-were-faked-asks-peter-hyams-a-fake-landing.html|title=What If a Mars Landing Were Faked? Asks Peter Hyams|last=Nightingale|first=Benedict|author-link=Benedict Nightingale|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 May 1978|page=11}}</ref>

Hyams later said:
{{blockquote|Audiences just stood up and cheered at one point in the film. It wasn't because it was such a great movie, it's just that certain movies strike certain chords with people. In a successful movie, the audience, almost before they see it, know they're going to like it. I remember standing in the back of the theater and crying because I knew that something had changed in my life. Sitting on the film cans outside the screening room, I felt my cheeks were wet with tears. A bright man, [studio executive] [[David Picker]] came over to me and said, 'You're going to have a lot of new best friends tomorrow. You better know how to handle it.'<ref name="luke">[http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/peter_hyams.htm Interview with Peter Hyams by Luke Ford] accessed 27 July 2014</ref>}}

In [[Japan]] and the [[UK]], a version with a running time of 129 minutes was released theatrically, with additional scenes such as the docking of the spacecraft during the Mars landing, and with different cuts of detail. However, the rights company (ITC Entertainment) has since taken the position that the final version of ''Capricorn One'' is the 123-minute version currently in circulation, and that the 129-minute version no longer exists. Therefore, only the 123-minute version is currently distributed in Japan and the UK. However, in 2019, film material from the 129-minute version was discovered at the [[National Film Archive of Japan]], so [[remaster]]ed material was created based on this film and released as "bonus content" only on Japanese [[Blu-ray]], after obtaining permission from the rights company.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kingmovies.jp/library/kixf-655_6 |title=カプリコン・１ ≪特別版≫ ［Blu-ray］|date=2019 |agency=[[King Records (Japan)|King Records]] |language=ja |trans-title=Capricorn One special edition Blu-ray |access-date=2023-08-13}}</ref>