Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. Director Steven Spielberg’s shark classic Jaws is resurfacing, just when you thought it was ...

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 ...

Clay Creswell still remembers the first time he saw the 1975 film Jaws, and the imprint it left on him. “I was 5 years old when I saw 'Jaws,' and it didn’t really scare me. It fascinated me,” the ...

A new documentary explores how Steven Spielberg’s hit reshaped the movie industry 50 years ago and why it resonates today. Hint: It’s not the shark. By Chris Vognar On the most basic level “Jaws” is a ...

This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's Jaws. Its colossal success created the summer blockbuster, and for a while, it was the highest-grossing movie of all time. Five ...

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,” ...

Much more than a mere creature feature, “Jaws” created a playbook that filmmakers have followed closely for 50 years. Peacock/Universal Pictures, via Associated Press By Rumsey Taylor and Eve ...

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, ...

Ed note: This reconsideration of Jaws and its three sequels was inspired by all four films arriving on Netflix on Sept. 1. Very few films have had an impact like 1975’s Jaws. It’s a one-film cinematic ...

In the summer of 1974, A. Bowdoin Van Riper had just gotten out of school when Hollywood came to town. Van Riper, then 11 years old, went down to the beach on Martha's Vineyard with a friend to watch ...

In 1975, Steven Spielberg changed movies forever with the release of Jaws. At the time, in an era before Star Wars and so many other mega films to come, this tale about a killer great white became the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Richard Kiel, best known for playing the steel-toothed villain Jaws in two James Bond movies, has taken on a new role -- author. Sign up here. Kiel, 68, has spent 25 years ...