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Is Jaws Based on a True Story? All About the Thriller’s Inspiration in Honor of Its 50th Anniversary
As 'Jaws' celebrates its 50th anniversary, here is everything to know about what inspired the movie and if its based on real ...
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.
Inside the problem-plagued making of ‘Jaws’ 50 years later: A drunk actor, broken sharks and millions over budget
But not sold on the alternatives, they went with the young hotshot. Zanuck and Brown budgeted the film at an estimated $3.5 ...
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We nearly got a Jaws sequel with a bonkers title and plot
Gremlins director Joe Dante nearly helmed a spoof movie called ‘Jaws 3, People 0,’ that featured Steven Spielberg as a ...
‘Jaws’ made people fear sharks. 50 years later, can it help save them?
After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and ...
The Shark That Ate Hollywood: Jaws at 50
He was behind schedule, his actors were fighting, the crew were mutinous and worst of all, his shark was broken. It looked ...
‘Jaws’ 50th anniversary: How everything going wrong made the film a classic
The original script for Steven Spielberg’s monumental blockbuster "Jaws," based on the book by Peter Benchley, called for the film’s bloodthirsty great white shark to emerge from the water in the very ...
Long Island’s ‘monster’ shark hunter legend may have inspired ‘Jaws,’ iconic Capt. Quint
Although Steven Spielberg’s epic “Jaws,” which turns 50 Friday, depicts unprecedented terror and calamity offshore in the ...