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What happened on Jaws that made Richard Dreyfuss never work for Universal Pictures again?

Jaws actor Richard Dreyfuss vowed to never work for Universal Pictures ever again after starring in the 1975 shark thriller and he stuck to his self-imposed exile from the studio.

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'He was at the piano and he did not respond to me...' Richard Dreyfuss recalls Jaws moment that shook Steven Spielberg

Richard Dreyfuss has recalled the moment he had to tell Jaws director Steven Spielberg that Robert Shaw - who had played shark hunter Quint in the blockbuster - had died in 1978.

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Lego Jaws (21350) review: "An impressive homage to a cinematic masterpiece, though the original sets have a hidden issue"

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You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat To Store This Massive Jaws LEGO Set Celebrating The Movie's 50th Anniversary

I need this like Mayor Vaughn needs open beaches...

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Everything we learnt from Charlie Sheen’s brutally honest memoir and documentary

New book charts the actor’s tumultuous career and public battles with addiction

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I've Seen Jaws More Times Than I Can Count, But Here's Why Seeing It On The Big Screen For The First Time Was Something Else

The perfect movie doesn't exi-

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‘It put the fear of God in the audience’: the incredible story of how Jaws changed Hollywood

As the industry-shifting blockbuster turns 50, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary and Wendy Benchley look back on the highs and lows

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Jaws at 50: the first summer blockbuster is still a film that bites – even when the shark didn’t work

When I was eight years old, on a Saturday night before surf lifesaving training, my dad put on the film Jaws and it changed my life forever.

The Conversation

Jaws at 50: the Jewish sensibility that shaped Spielberg’s blockbuster and transformed cinema

It’s hard to believe Steven Spielberg was just 27 when he directed Jaws. Before that he’d mostly worked in television, helming episodes of detective show Columbo and the acclaimed TV movie Duel. He’d made just one theatrical feature, The Sugarland Express.

The Conversation

Jaws at 50: a cinematic masterpiece – and an incredible piece of propaganda

Jaws turns 50 on June 20. Last year, Quentin Tarantino called Stephen Spielberg’s film “possibly the greatest movie ever made”. Though he was quick to add that it isn’t the best film in terms of script, cinematography or acting, he was convinced that its overall quality as a movie remains…

The Conversation

‘Like sinking into a warm bath’: why Jaws is my feelgood movie

The next pick in our ongoing series of comfort movie favourites is Steven Spielberg’s defining shark thriller

The Guardian - US

Jaws turns 50: reading Peter Benchley's novel, you barely mind if its self-loathing characters are eaten by a 'genius' shark

How many times have you come out of the cinema and heard someone snidely remark they preferred the book, as though this somehow connects them to a richer, more highbrow tradition?

The Conversation

Large great white shark swims more than 10,000km in 150 days

Fictional scientist Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1975 film Jaws, subscribed to the theory of shark territoriality. But his real-life counterparts beg to differ.

ABC News

Terrifying moment huge 20ft shark swims close to boat as man mumbles 'holy s**t'

The footage, which has gone viral on social media, shows the spine-chilling moment the sea ripples as the massive shark edges it way towards the petrified man and his boat

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