As most of us know, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 Jaws, maybe the first blockbuster ...

Jaws ripoffs were all the rage in the late 1970s, but one movie managed to copy the Spielberg classic while still becoming a ...

Consequently, he spent much of his life until he died in 2006 as an ocean activist and wrote books advocating shark ...

The Jaws franchise spans four films released between 1975 and 1987. Each movie features a new deadly encounter with a great white shark. While not tightly connected, the sequels loosely follow the ...

But if “Jaws” is one of the most influential movies ever made, Hollywood hasn't always drawn the right lessons from it. “You're gonna need a bigger boat” has perhaps been taken too ...

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, "Jaws" follows what happens on an island off the coast of New England after a great white shark wreaks havoc on their beach. Steven Spielberg ...

Though Spielberg shot “Jaws” on Martha’s Vineyard, off Cape Cod, it was the neighboring island, Nantucket, that inspired Benchley’s novel. He has spent time fishing there with his father.

Jaws, which turns 50 on June 20, 2025, changed movies forever. But Hollywood could still learn something from the Steven Spielberg film.

Various incentives often determine movie shooting locations, with set dressings, or CGI, filling in the rest. But “Jaws” shows you just how much more than tax credits you can get from a locale.