Jaws

Jaws Doc in the Works for 50th Anniversary in 2025

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Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Richard Dreyfuss in JAWS, 1975.

The notoriously tumultuous making-of story behind Steven Spielberg‘s hit Jaws and the writing of its best-selling supply materials by Peter Benchley is getting the documentary therapy. Timed to the fiftieth anniversary of the 1975 movie, Nat Geo has greenlit Jaws @ 50 (working title), a doc function that can concentrate on each the Spielberg movie … Read more

‘Jaws’ First Victim Was 77

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'Jaws' First Victim Was 77

Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a younger skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island grew to become the shark’s first sufferer in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday at her residence in Ventura, California, her conference agent, Matthew Templeton, instructed The Day … Read more