In 1979, JAWS Producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck partnered with National Lampoon of Animal House fame, commissioned a script and signed on as Executive Producers. Joe Dante (Piranha, Gremlins, Innerspace) was to direct.

The Hooper line “This is what happens …” during his autopsy of Chrissie’s remains has always not felt right. Finally, we have an answer from Steven Spielberg himself about that jarring scene.

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 …

I was making Jaws and living on Martha’s Vineyard. Somebody plugged in a coin op game called Pong at the merry-go-round in Oak Bluffs.

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

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.

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.

Jaws. The defining film in my life. The first film I remember seeing as a child remains my favorite film of all time.

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

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.