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[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]
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror thriller film [1] directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb.It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise.
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.
By Variety: June 20 marks the 40th anniversary of "Jaws," which revolutionized the industry — even though the numbers seem pretty quaint by today's standards. In its first three days in 1975 ...
Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Jurassic Park—achieved box office records, originated, and came to epitomize the blockbuster film. [4] The worldwide box office receipts of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $10 billion, making him the highest-grossing director in cinematic history.
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Jeannot Szwarc, the French filmmaker known for directing films like Supergirl, Jaws 2, and Somewhere in Time, as well as numerous notable TV projects, died Tuesday at 87.. His son Sacha Szwarc, a ...
Steven Spielberg confided that while making Jaws in 1974, he and Richard Dreyfuss had traded quips from A Guy Named Joe, considered a "classic" war film, that they both wanted to remake. [5] Originally intended to be an MGM project, the film underwent a protracted 10-year gestation, with Tom Cruise reputedly being considered for the Ted Baker ...