2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and celebrations embody particular screenings and a theatrical re-release
2025 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of one of many best motion pictures ever made, director Steven Spielberg’s basic Jaws – and our pals at Bloody Disgusting have realized that the anniversary celebrations will embody a theatrical re-release and a screening in Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts, the place the movie was made!
Jaws might be screened in the course of the TCM Basic Movie Competition in Hollywood, which is about to run from April twenty fourth via the twenty seventh. Should you can’t attend that movie competition, you’ll have one other probability to catch Jaws on the massive display screen when it will get a theatrical launch from August twenty ninth via September 4th.
Bloody Disgusting goes on to notice that Alamo Drafthouse Cinema might be celebrating Jaws all summer season lengthy, with the festivities starting over Memorial Day weekend in Might. There might be “screenings featuring a special menu and fun props along with limited-edition popcorn buckets and merchandise.”
That precedes an Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow “Jaws on the Water” screening in Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts on June twenty first. There can even be Jaws on the Water screenings at Lake Travis in Austin, Texas in June and July.
Plus, there’s going to be a fiftieth anniversary version of the movie launched on house video, and it’s set to begin streaming (alongside all three sequels) on the Peacock streaming service as of June fifteenth. We’ve beforehand heard of a pair of fiftieth anniversary documentaries; Jaws @ 50 and Jaws: Making a Splash in Hollywood.
Directed by Spielberg from a screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb that was based mostly on a best-selling novel by Benchley, Jaws has the next synopsis: When a younger girl is killed by a shark whereas skinny-dipping close to the New England vacationer city of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody desires to shut the seashores, however mayor Larry Vaughn overrules him, fearing that the lack of vacationer income will cripple the city. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper and grizzled ship captain Quint supply to assist Brody seize the killer beast, and the trio have interaction in an epic battle of man vs. nature. The movie stars Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton.
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