The Cabot in Beverly, Massachusetts has issued an apology for 'distressing and offensive' comments made by actor Richard Dreyfuss before a screening of 'Jaws.'
Jonathan Searle came full circle from being a prankster, and pretending that there is a shark in the water, to protecting his community both on and off land.
As any movie fan worth their salt will undoubtedly recall, Back to the Future Part II imagined a timeline in which we had hoverboards, automatic lace-up sneakers, futuristic Pepsi (more on that here), and…Jaws 19. Robert Zemeckis’ time-traveling sequel was almost eerily prescient in its imagining of the future of blockbuster franchises, and now there’s an official trailer for Jaws 19 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of one of the best film franchises in history.
On June 20, 1975 a movie about an angry fish opened in about 500 theaters around the country. It was called Jaws, it was directed a guy named Steven Spielberg, it was scary as hell, and it changed the world forever. Its unique release strategy (wide instead of limited), intense television marketing campaign, and record-breaking box office essentially created the summer movie season (and made Spielberg a household name). 40 years later, regardless of its impact, Jaws remains a masterpiece, and a much better and more interesting movie than the vast majority of so-called summer blockbusters that it birthed.
Jaws - the Book - celebrates the 40th anniversary this summer! In 1974, Peter Benchley wrote the classic novel that would become the movie to scare a generation out of the water.