When he first heard one of its most memorable themes, the leitmotif built on two notes (E and F) that grow in intensity as a ...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released 50 years ago, may have been about a killer great white shark on the hunt off of Amity ...

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, "Jaws" follows what happens on an island off the coast of New England after a great white shark wreaks havoc on their beach. Steven Spielberg ...

Given all this chaos, it shouldn't come as a surprise that a young Spielberg thought Jaws might be his exit from Hollywood. After all, the filming had gone on for more than 100 days over schedule.

The whole enterprise seemed doomed. “’Jaws’ should never have been made,” Spielberg admitted to Time the Monday after the film opened in 1975. “It was,” he said, “an impossible ...

Steven Spielberg can laugh now, but he has the proverbial bite marks to show for it after directing Jaws just over 50 years ago. Filming the classic was a disaster-plagued adventure for Spielberg ...