Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg

Very Rare JAWS Interviews from 1974 – Benchley Interviews Spielberg and Shaw

  Recently released by Peter Benchley’s widow Wendy on the new PeterBenchley.com website, this RARE video features Peter interviewing JAWS producers David Brown and Richard Zanuck, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Shaw.  Shaw is wearing a yellow JAWS t-shirt for his …

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The “Raiders” Story Conference

In 1978, fresh off the success of JAWS and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg sat down with George Lucas and Lawrence Kasdan to figure out what Raiders of the Lost Ark was going to be …

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The Indispensibles #2 – JAWS

The first time I heard about Jaws, or at least what I thought was Jaws, was in the playground at school. I was ten. Someone in the year above me was telling me it was the “scariest film ever”.

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JAWS in American Cinematographer – July 1975

Short article/interview with Steven Spielberg about the making of Jaws. From the July 1975 issue of American Cinematographer.

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Another Project for Spielberg

Steven Spielberg is planning to adapt Chocky, based on the novel by Brit writer John Wyndham and the beloved 80’s TV show, through the newly independent DreamWorks.

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Jaws, Raiders Among Empire’s Top 500

Several Spielberg films made Empire Magazine’s Top 500 films of all time. Two of Spielberg’s films made the top 5, with Jaws placing fifth and Raiders of the Lost Ark placing 2nd, beaten only by Francis Ford Copolla’s The Godfather.

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Spielberg released from Dreamworks

Paramount officially released Steven Spielberg and other DreamWorks executives from their contracts on Friday …

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Spielberg’s DreamWorks Seeking New Backing?

DreamWorks, the boutique movie studio that Mr. Spielberg co-founded in 1994, let it be known that it had found a way to exit its unhappy three-year marriage with Paramount Pictures.

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JAWS and Spielberg’s Rise to Auteur Status

A reading of the opening of Jaws (1975), incorporating it’s genre and an indication towards the beginning of Spielberg’s rise to auteur status. by John-Paul Stephenson Steven Spielberg is now recognised as one of Hollywood’s leading auteurs; a filmmaker who …

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