He arrived on the site in Bethel, New York on August 15, with over a thousand reels of film and a crew of several camera operators.
The film, which reportedly cost $600,000 to produce, earned over $50 million in the United States and more millions from foreign rentals, but due to a complicated arrangement with Warner Bros., Wadleigh received only a small percentage of the profits.
[3][4] Janis, a 1974 documentary about Janis Joplin, gave Wadleigh credit as cinematographer for his archive footage, but it would be eleven years after the release of Woodstock before he received his next, and to date last, directorial credit: Wolfen, a unique 1981 horror phantasmagoria, based on the novel The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber, was praised for its dreamlike nature and striking visual quality,[5] but despite a top-notch star turn from Albert Finney, turned out to have been too offbeat for the general public to achieve financial success.
Wadleigh also wrote the Wolfen screenplay and has a bit part as "Terrorist Informer".
In August 1994, twenty-four years after its original showing, a 228-minute "director's cut" of Woodstock was released, and in 1999, another Woodstock-based documentary, Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock, gave Wadleigh another archive footage credit for cinematography.