The Jaws franchise spans four films released between 1975 and 1987. Each movie features a new deadly encounter with a great white shark. While not tightly connected, the sequels loosely follow the ...
The summertime beaches of 1975 were empty, but the movie theaters were full thanks to Steven Spielberg’s thriller Jaws. Considered by film historians to be the first-ever summer blockbuster, Jaws put ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Fifty years ago on Friday, director Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was released in theaters. The ...
Half a century later, Steven Spielberg's formative summer blockbuster looks more than ever like a New Hollywood fusion of Hitchcock and Altman. But what of “Jaws”? When it opened on June 20, 1975, ...
The anniversary festivities included V.I.P. meet-and-greets, book signings, film screenings and lectures about sharks. But for many, the real draw was the island itself. The anniversary festivities ...
The sequel had a tough act to follow, but it still delivered a terrifying monster movie with grand sequences, a sweeping score and an indelible tagline. By Maya Salam As a child, I collected so many ...
In a cramped, $50-a-month room above a New Jersey furnace-supply company, Peter Benchley set to work on what he once said, half-jokingly, might be “a Ulysses for the 1970s.” A novel resulted from ...
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