Tag: Jaws
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AFI Fest Film Review: Sandra Bullock in ‘Bird Box’
When it comes to the movie “Jaws,” there’s a myth so often repeated that hardly anyone stops to question it anymore: The story goes that because Spielberg couldn’t get his giant mechanical shark to work, he was forced to shoot around it, resulting in a more effective film. That’s true up to a point. Sharks…
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Richard Dreyfuss Wrongly Believes That Adding A CGI Shark To ‘Jaws’ Would Be “Huge” For Younger Audiences
Film fans, hold on to something. What’s to follow is liable to make you want to throw something. Ready? Okay, good.Richard Dreyfuss, the legendary actor known for roles in “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” “What About Bob?” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” was recently asked about one of his most famous roles in the Steven…
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Prehistoric Shark Movie ‘The Meg’ Swims Onscreen After Two Decades
After two decades in the deep waters of development, prehistoric shark actioner “The Meg” is finally ready to swim into the late-summer box office.Steve Alten, the author of the novel on which the film is based, thought many times over that the project might sink without a ripple. When Alten was 15 in 1975, he…
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Dick Delson, Longtime Hollywood Publicist, Dies at 81
Dick Delson, a well-known Hollywood publicist who worked with stars including Sylvester Stallone, Walter Matthau and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and on campaigns for films including “The Deerhunter” and “Jaws,” died Sunday in Yarmouth, Maine. He was 81.His niece, Joanna Delson, said he died in his sleep at a longterm care facility.Among his other clients were James…
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Jurassic World: why Hollywood monsters have lost their bite
Now more empathic than ever, could film’s fantastic beasts be doing themselves out of a job?It used to be so simple with movie monsters: they tried to kill us and we tried to kill them back, which worked fine with elemental classics such as Jaws, Alien and Godzilla. But now we seem to have found…
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‘A Quiet Place’ Tops $300 Million at Worldwide Box Office
Paramount’s horror hit “A Quiet Place” has topped the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office.“A Quiet Place,” starring John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, had been forecasted to debut domestically with as much as $30 million when it opened on April 6. The film, which premiered at South by Southwest to rave reviews, instead…
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‘Overboard’ Review: Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez Shine in This Competent, Gender-Swapped Remake
“Crazy things happen all the time,” a character announces early on in this adequate and amiable “Overboard” remake, setting the stage for the ripped-from-the-telenovela drama to come. But beleaguered Kate (Anna Faris) doesn’t have much time to think about the crazy things; she’s got two crappy jobs and lives in a busted cottage, where she…
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The Best Movie Jump-Scares of All Time — IndieWire Critics Survey
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)Last weekend saw the release of “A Quiet Place,” the premise of which is a…
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Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #1 ‘Jaws’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…
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Top 10 Steven Spielberg Movies: #2 ‘Jurassic Park’
Now that our Top 50 Superhero Movies of All Time list has come and gone, it’s on to the next! But this time around, we’re putting the spotlight on one specific filmmaker – one of the best of all-time, Steven Spielberg. From 1975’s Jaws, which started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, to 2017’s Academy Award-nominated The…