Jaws Articles

Bruce the shark at Universal Studios Orlando Steven Spielberg's 1975 horror actioner Jaws may remain one of the biggest blockbusters ever, if inflation is taken into account. In fact, it's no. 7 on Box Office Mojo's inflation-adjusted list of top domestic box-office hits, having sold enough tickets to guarantee more than $1 billion in current dollars. But that's not enough for Universal Studios Orlando, which [...]

Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, The Haunting The Movies’ Top Ten Scream Queens 10 – Mary Philbin, The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Okay, so this is a silent film; in other words, Universal star Mary Philbin's screaming was all in my head. But it worked. Lon Chaney at his most grotesque had the title role; Norman Kerry was Philbin's dashing leading man. Rupert Julian directed. [...]

Biggest Oscar Snubs #9a (Cont.): Laurence Olivier, Gene Kelly, Arthur Hiller, Sam Wood Steven Spielberg's Jaws snub must have been particularly galling for the 29-year-old director because he had a camera crew at his home when the 1975 nominations were announced. "I didn't get it! I didn't get it! I wasn't nominated!" he moaned. "I got beaten up by Fellini!" (Federico Fellini's Amarcord had won [...]

Visual-effects artist Grant McCune (above, with R2-D2), whose most notable effort was probably George Lucas's Star Wars (1977), died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Hidden Hills, 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. McCune was 67. McCune won an Oscar for Star Wars, which he shared with visual-effects specialists John Stears, John Dykstra, Richard Edlund and Robert Blalack. Two years later, McCune was nominated [...]