The making of Jaws is the stuff of legend. Filmed out on the Atlantic Ocean with nothing but practical effects, a dwindling budget and timeframe, and actors who were at each other's throats, it was a ...

They needed a lot more than just a bigger boat. They needed over double their initial production budget. They needed one of their trio of leading actors to not be so drunk all the time that he’d black ...

Creating a big-screen version of Peter Benchley’s suspense+horror novel of a small seaside community besieged by a series of shark attacks turned into a horror of its own. The weather around Martha’s ...

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw led a cast rounded out by Martha's Vineyard locals. Director Steven Spielberg and author Peter Benchley both expressed regret over how the film ...

Even among the, uh, sharkiest film critics, "Jaws" is considered one of the most revered movies of all time. It was 50 years ago that the picture swam into theaters. At the time, Steven Spielberg was ...

Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. In the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I just really was not ready to endure the amount of obstacles that were thrown in our path, ...