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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.
Jaws is set in the fictional town of Amity, a small, seaside resort located on the south shore of Long Island, halfway between Bridgehampton and East Hampton.One night, after making love with a man on the beach, a young woman named Christine Watkins skinny dips alone in the ocean where she is attacked and killed by a massive great white shark.
[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]
The director of Jaws 2 and Santa Claus: The Movie, Jeannot Szwarc, has reportedly died, aged 87. The French-American director, famed for his work in both film and television, is said to have ...
Jeannot Szwarc, the French filmmaker known for directing “Jaws 2,” “Somewhere in Time” and “Supergirl,” died Wednesday. He was 85. Jane Seymour, who played Elise McKenna in Szwarc’s ...
The Jaws people are back among us, more efficient, more organized and more moneyed. Gone are the happy-go-lucky days of the first Jaws, where the big trucks roved about the Island from day to day, always highly visible with miles of cables snaking here and there over roads and lawns. Gone are the acrimonious wrangles and Select persons over ...
Not what you might be expecting with “The Shark Is Broken,” the lyrical play that opened Thursday about the trio of actors who enlivened the pioneering Steven Spielberg-directed movie “Jaws.”
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb.