Steven Spielberg's Jaws took some of the most interesting aspects of the aquatic creature feature subgenre and redefined it with simplistic methods. With a shark that rarely worked, POV shots took the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Fifty years ago on Friday, director Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was released in theaters. The ...

Name that theme song: Dunnn-dun. Dunnn-dun. Dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun. Who are we kidding? That terrifying two-note John Williams creation of course conjures the opening shark strike in “Jaws,” ...

The massive, ravenous shark in "Jaws" began chomping its way across movie screens — and into pop culture history — 50 years ago on June 20. It became the first summer blockbuster in 1975 and made ...

That relentless, rumbling music—DUM-dum DUM-dum DUM-dum—like a heartbeat gone awry. The mayor who wants to keep the beaches open (and his equally obnoxious tailoring). “You’re gonna need a bigger boat ...

Half a century later, Steven Spielberg's formative summer blockbuster looks more than ever like a New Hollywood fusion of Hitchcock and Altman. But what of “Jaws”? When it opened on June 20, 1975, ...

“Jaws,” which just turned 50 years old, remains one of the most beloved and rewatched movies of all time, and remains the blueprint for the summer blockbuster film. While the shark made people look at ...