“Brilliant young director Steven Spielberg has taken the premise of Peter Benchley’s best-selling but rather pedestrian novel ‘Jaws’ — a summer resort community terrorized by the presence of a rogue ...

saw the release of one soon-to-be classic movie after another, ranging from summer blockbusters to high art director-driven ...

What was the nickname given to the shark? Spielberg named his mechanical shark “Bruce,” after his attorney, Bruce Ramer. Where did the title come from? When author Peter Benchley’s 1974 book was going ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Fifty years after “Jaws” sunk its teeth into us, we’re still admiring the bite mark. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, his second feature, left such a imprint on culture and Hollywood that ...

My friend Raymond and I saw Jaws in a South Jersey movie theater, possibly outside Cherry Hill, on its opening weekend 50 years ago. It was a sold-out weekend show — the film had opened the day before ...

Jay Mello, one of the young cast members in the 1975 movie Jaws, was scarred for years after filming scenes on the beach on Martha’s Vineyard. The young actor was 6 years old when he was cast as the ...

Fifty years ago, in the summer of 1975, “Jaws” changed the movie industry. “Variety” magazine called the Steven Spielberg thriller about a giant great white shark terrorizing a resort town, ...

Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” arrived on movie screens 50 years ago Friday. It was no sleeper hit — the director’s second feature, a thriller that focused just as much on the people of Amity Island as its ...

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of “Jaws.” It remains one of the most beloved and rewatched movies of all time. But how good is your knowledge of the some of lore surrounding Steven Spielberg’s 1975 ...