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 ...
Just what made Jaws Jaws? There was the shark, yes, the ravenous predator at the center of the 1975 movie. And of course, there was also its iconic two-note score, so effective that it has become a ...
We hardly see the cartilaginous villain of “Jaws” before it tears through a skinny-dipper, a dog, a little boy and an overconfident fisherman. It takes nearly two hours to finally watch the great ...
Fifty years ago, Jaws hit theaters with the force of a tsunami, and proceeded to scare the living daylights out of millions of viewers. Beach attendance plummeted in the months following the film’s ...
The film’s release in 1975 haunted the reputation of sharks worldwide. But a generation of scientists helped to turn the tide. By Alexa Robles-Gil When Steven Spielberg’s famous mechanical shark, ...
The movie Jaws, released on June 20, 1975, was one of the very first Hollywood summer blockbusters, and remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation. Its dramatic ...