A young woman is killed by a shark near a tourist town, causing the police chief to want to close the beaches but the mayor refuses to hurt tourism. An expert is called in to help capture the shark along with a sea captain. They engage in a epic battle against the killer beast in the waters. The film was difficult to make due to issues with the mechanical shark and filming conditions but became the highest grossing film ever at the time, spawning sequels, rides and merchandise.

1. Jaws

2. Plot
• When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near
the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin
Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry
Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of
tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper
(Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer
to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic
battle of man vs. nature.
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2019.

3. Directors
Steven Spielberg directed the film while he was in his 20s it was his
first blockbuster film previously doing duel in 1972 where the
characters are getting chased by a maniac in a killer truck Spielberg
admitted jaws was one of his most difficult films to make as nearly
everything in the film went wrong to the shark malfunctioning to
footage being lost when the cameras got damaged and actors being
drunk and homesick on set when they had stay on a boat at sea for
weeks with very little food and water on hand the boats had to be
made to sink over and over again this proved pretty hard when
trying to keep sinking a boat
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accessed 23rd january 2019

4. production
Richard D Zunack and David Brown, producers at Universal
Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's
novel Jaws. Brown came across it in the literature section of
lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan, then edited by his
wife, Helen Gurley Brown. A small card written by the
magazine's book editor gave a detailed description of the plot,
concluding with the comment "might make a good
movie". The producers each read the book over the course of
a single night and agreed the next morning that it was "the
most exciting thing that they had ever read" and that they
wanted to produce a film version, although they were unsure
how it would be accomplished. They purchased the movie
rights in 1973, before the book's publication, for
approximately $175,000 (equivalent to $0.96 million in
2018). Brown claimed that had they read the book twice, they
would never have made the film because they would have
realized how difficult it would be to execute certain
sequences.
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january 2019.

5. Filming
• Principal Photography began May 2, 1974, on the island of Martha's
Vineyard, Massachusetts, selected after consideration was given to
eastern Long Island. Brown explained later that the production "needed a
vacation area that was lower middle class enough so that an appearance of
a shark would destroy the tourist business." Martha's Vineyard was also
chosen because the surrounding ocean had a sandy bottom that never
dropped below 35 feet 11 m for 12 miles 19 km out from shore, which
allowed the mechanical sharks to operate while also beyond sight of land.
As Spielberg wanted to film the aquatic sequences relatively close-up to
resemble what people see while swimming, cinematographer Bill Butler
devised new equipment to facilitate marine and underwater shooting,
including a rig to keep the camera stable regardless of tide and a sealed
submersible camera box. Spielberg asked the art department to avoid red
in both scenery and wardrobe, so that the blood from the attacks would be
the only red element and cause a bigger shock. 0

6. Budget and earnings
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7. Cast
Roy Schneider
Robert Shaw Richard dreyfuss
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8. Box office
• it overtook The Godfather as the highest-grossing film at the North American box
office, sailing past that picture's earnings of $86 million to become the first film to earn
$100 million in US Rentals. Its initial release ultimately brought in $123.1 million in
rentals. Theatrical re-releases in 1976 and 1979 brought its total rentals to $133.4
million.
• The picture entered overseas release in December 1975, and its international business
mirrored its domestic performance. It broke records in Singapore, New Zealand,
Japan, Spain, and Mexico. By 1977, Jaws was the highest-grossing international release
with worldwide rentals of $193 million, equating to about $400 million of gross
revenue; it supplanted The Godfather, which had earned $145 million in rentals.
• Jaws was the highest grossing film of all time until Star Wars, which debuted two years
later. Star Wars surpassed Jaws for the U.S. record six months after its release and set a
new global record in 1978. As of January 2018, it is the 204th-highest-grossing film of all
time with $470.7 million worldwide, and the 66th-highest domestically with a total North
American gross of $260 million.

9. anniversaries
• The film has been released on many platforms firstly on vhs then later
re released on dvd for the 25th anniversary it included interviews
never seen before it was then for the 40th anniversary in 2015
released in 4k blu ray making the film look outstanding

10. Merchandising
Jaws also made a lot of money of
merchandising selling toys props
and clothes mugs where also
highly popular they made
something close to 100 million
plus on Merch

11. Other ways it entertained
Jaws had a ride at universal studios Florida and Hollywood which opened in
1990 and closed its door in 2012 after being highly popular with guests they
decided to replace it with something more popular to draw in bigger crowds for
more attendance and revenue the ride began guests entering a boat and taking
a tour around the lagoon the guests then came round the corner to see a ship
heavily damaged and sinking the guests then see a shark fin out of the water
and the shark continues to stalk the guests it then lunges at the boat attempting
to sink it but the sailor eventually ends blowing it up and returns the guests back
safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uALqMMC8mg