The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval. Publishing savvy, Hollywood hype and a killer cover helped ...

Back int he 70s, Gilpin had to climb to the top of the throng of teen actor who wanted a role in the Spielberg sequel. It feels like Jaws was the true beginning of the summer event movie as we knew it ...

Film adaptations are often perceived as easier to work with. After all, the book is already written so all a screenwriter has to do is follow what the original author laid out, right? Wrong. In ...

Steven Spielberg’s movie “Jaws” hit theaters 50 years ago this month, in June 1975, and became a phenomenon almost instantly. In some ways that was no surprise: The Peter Benchley novel it was based ...

Peter Benchley, who lived in Princeton for over three decades until his 2006 death, wrote one of the most successful debut novels of all time, "Jaws," published in 1974. The movie of the same name ...

In a cramped, $50-a-month room above a New Jersey furnace-supply company, Peter Benchley set to work on what he once said, half-jokingly, might be “a Ulysses for the 1970s.” A novel resulted from ...

Jaws 2 would have been a much different movie, had the sequel's original plan been followed. Universal was indeed hungry for a follow-up to Jaws after the 1975 film's legendary box office run saw it ...