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 ...

At a dock on Martha's Vineyard is the Orca, the boat from "Jaws." It's a replica, of course; the original one sank, weighed down by a five-ton man-eating shark. The guy next to the Orca, however, is ...

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 ...

It's been half a century since Steven Speilberg's groundbreaking movie Jaws first made audiences afraid to step foot in the ocean...but one actor is still making thousands of dollars from his ...

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 ...

Just what made Jaws Jaws? There was the shark, yes, the ravenous predator at the center of the 1975 movie. And of course, there was also its iconic two-note score, so effective that it has become a ...

Believe it or not, it’s been 50 years since the film we all blame for our fear of sharks was released—Jaws, of course. But still to this day, one of its child stars is making a pretty penny off his ...

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...