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By Variety: June 20 marks the 40th anniversary of "Jaws," which revolutionized the industry — even though the numbers seem pretty quaint by today's standards. In its first three days in 1975 ...
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
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Throughout other documentaries over the years, such as Bouzereau's and the BBC's 1997 documentary In the Teeth of Jaws, actor Richard Dreyfuss has recounted tales about the troubled production of Jaws and the quote “The shark is NOT working” which Dreyfuss would hear constantly from members of the crew. Eventually, upon successful attempts ...
Quint’s famous USS Indianapolis speech — “1,100 men went in the water, 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest” — forms the play's backbone as Shaw struggles to initially memorize it ...
Fifty years ago, film crews descended on Massachusetts to make the first film.
Jaws 19 is a joke movie that is shown being advertised in the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II. Set in 2015, a movie theatre in Hill Valley features a huge holographic poster of Jaws 19 , by "Max Spielberg" (the name of Steven Spielberg's real-life son) that "swallows" Marty McFly .
Prior to the wide release of Jaws on June 20, 1975, the film's producers were busily readying the global rollout of what would be a defining summer blockbuster. Meanwhile, Universal launched "the ...