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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 ...
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 ...
‘Jaws': The Prototype Summer Blockbuster Turns 50, Losing None of Its Bite
Spielberg's first major hit single-handedly changed the business model for Hollywood, giving birth to the blockbuster summer ...
What Happened to Child Actor Jay Mello After His Big Break in “Jaws”? Inside His Quiet Life Making Maple Syrup (Exclusive)
"I didn't go back into the water for like two years after the movie was made," Mello tells PEOPLE Jay Mello was only 6 years ...
‘Jaws’ and the parental debates it set off
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It didn’t take long for “Jaws” to make an impression. The movie that launched the summer blockbuster ...
My husband wrote 'Jaws.' We need to better protect the oceans he loved. | Opinion
Jaws' brought sharks and the ocean into the forefront of the public's imagination 50 years ago. Let's use this anniversary to ...
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 ...
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’ turns 50: Steven Spielberg’s caught-on-camera Oscar snub still smarts — and shows need for Best Director reform
Steven Spielberg, one could say, was less than pleased when he found out he was not nominated for the Oscar for Best Director ...
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' turned 50 — and all these years later still gives Nancy Lopez 'the heebie-jeebies'
Want to feel old? The original summer blockbuster, "Jaws," turns 50 today.
‘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 ...