The production designer of Jaws says the studio initially balked at the film — until a young Steven Spielberg convinced them it would be "big" Joe Alves, the film's production designer, tells PEOPLE ...

The Jaws animatronic, famously nicknamed "Bruce" by the film crew, was the mechanical shark created for Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster film Jaws. Designed by special effects artist Bob Mattey, ...

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Few films have had the cultural impact of Jaws, the 1975 thriller that not only terrified a generation of beachgoers but also launched the modern summer blockbuster. Directed by a budding Steven ...

The shark refused to work. The main boat nearly sank. The young director, who insisted on filming on open water, nearly had a nervous breakdown; he’d later admit that the production left him with ...

The scariest films tap into something primal. Shark attack movies may have begun with Jaws in 1975, but the genre endures because Jaws was merely the first to articulate a fear that nearly all of us ...

It's been 50 years, but Joe Alves vividly remembers the day he was contacted with an unusual request: "Can you build a shark?" Alves, now 89, had already been working as an art director for more than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jaws franchise spans four films released between 1975 and 1987. Each movie features a new deadly encounter with a great white ...