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Nantucket Film Festival Sets ‘Jaws’ 50th Anniversary Celebration, ‘Twinless’ Screening and Ben Stiller-Hosted Comedy Rountable: Lineup
Nantucket Film Festival, set for June 25-30, will celebrate 30 years of programming with quite a robust lineup. The festival ...
AP WAS THERE: ‘Jaws’ and the parental debates it set off
It didn’t take long for “Jaws” to make an impression. The movie that launched the summer blockbuster season and changed how ...
What Happened to Child Actor Jay Mello After His Big Break in “Jaws”? Inside His Quiet Life Making Maple Syrup (Exclusive)
It was Mello, then, who was cast as Sean Brody, the youngest son of Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), the police chief of the fictional Amity Island, a seaside New England town that finds itself plagued by ...
How Steven Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ Endured a Hellish Production to Become Hollywood’s First Summer Blockbuster
Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' helped create the summer blockbuster and changed Hollywood with its innovative marketing campaign.
Jaws helped spur a fishing frenzy—so how have the world's sharks fared since the 1975 release?
Steven Spielberg's Jaws opened across North America on June 20, 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of ...
‘Jaws’: The Prototype Summer Blockbuster Turns 50, Losing None of Its Bite
Half a century ago, on 1975, Steven Spielberg’s classic shark thriller hit U.S. theaters and became an instant sensation. A ...
It’s 1975, and ‘Jaws’ just came out. Here’s what critics had to say.
When the film premiered 50 years ago, movie reviewers hailed Steven Spielberg’s work as a masterpiece — most of the time.
'Jaws' turned 50 — and all these years later still gives Nancy Lopez 'the heebie-jeebies'
"Jaws" was the first movie to gross over $100 million at the box office. The film's impact is still felt today, with some ...
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What happened to the shark from Jaws? The complicated history of ‘Bruce the Shark’
Rather than making an attempt to save the three crumbling mechanical sharks which were used in the film for posterity, the ...
Steven Spielberg thought he had a heart attack while making 'Jaws': 'We didn't have words like PTSD then'
The difficulty making his first blockbuster messed with Steven Spielberg's head far more than we may have realized.
‘Jaws’ sank its teeth into Twin Cities moviegoers 50 years ago
Local moviegoers mobbed the two metro theaters that had won exclusive rights to screen that summer’s hottest blockbuster: the ...
Jaws turns 50: How Spielberg’s shark thriller continues to terrify generations
Half a century since its release, Jaws remains one of the most iconic and terrifying films ever made. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 ...