Originally Posted by Funkstar 
Cinema has been very wide waaaaaaay before TV was ever thinking about widescreen.
Star Wars, for instance, was filmed at 2.20:1 way back in 1977.
Excellent George can release it on blueray then again for Ultra-wide, probablely redo the cgi again to add a couple more re-releases of it.
The 50 and 60 had some really wide formats like CinemaScope, part of the film studios' battle against the new upstart the was television.