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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.
[62] [67] Jaws eventually grossed more than $470 million worldwide ($1.9 billion in 2010 dollars [68]) and was the highest grossing box office film until Star Wars debuted two years later. [69] [70] Jaws 2 was the most expensive film that Universal had produced up until that point, costing the studio almost $30 million. [43]
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 ...
Jaws' principal video game appearances are in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 in a bonus mission in which he is a henchman to the deceased Hugo Drax whom Bond needs to defeat, and has multiple appearances in the multi-platform 2004 game 007: Everything or Nothing as a henchman to Nikolai Diavolo. Both games use Richard Kiel's likeness ...
Susan Backlinie, who played the first shark attack victim in Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday morning at her California home due to a heart attack ...
The Land Shark (also land shark, landshark, LandShark) was a recurring character from the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live.. The character first appeared during the show's debut season in the fall of 1975 as a response to the release of the film Jaws [1] and the subsequent hysteria over purported shark sightings.
Judith Eva Barsi (June 6, 1978 – July 25, 1988) was an American child actress.She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television series, as well as the 1987 film Jaws: The Revenge.
When WGN went on the air, Butler operated a live video camera for commercials and for locally produced programs. [5] [8] At his tenure with WGN, Butler met William Friedkin. [1] Friedkin asked Butler to be his cinematographer on The People vs. Paul Crump, a documentary that focused on a prisoner who was slated for execution in Illinois.