As 'Jaws' celebrates its 50th anniversary, here is everything to know about what inspired the movie and if its based on real ...

Jaws featured some of the scariest shark attacks in film. But its scariest could've been even more haunting had it not been ...

Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they wouldn’t get it right. The Steven Spielberg classic “Jaws” takes place in a ...

I always find myself rooting for the tragic and fatalistic Quint even after he starts descending into Ahab-like madness.

Jaws” is one of the most well-known cult classic creature features ever created. A young Steven Spielberg struck gold in the ...

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of “Jaws.” It remains one of the most beloved and rewatched movies of all time. But how good is your knowledge of the some of lore surrounding Steven ...

A: Though Spielberg shot “Jaws” on Martha’s Vineyard, off Cape Cod, it was the neighboring island, Nantucket, that inspired ...

Fifty years after "Jaws" was released in the theaters, the power of sharks in our imagination remains undimmed.

Charter boat captain Frank Mundus is believed to be the true-life inspiration for Peter Benchley’s character Quint, the hardened captain of the Orca who is hired to catch and kill the shark.

In his 1974 novel, "Jaws," Benchley wrote the character of captain Quint using inspiration from Mundus' shark hunting career. The novel was a massive commercial success, spending months on ...

Our film critic's first visit to the Vineyard coincided with the island's 50th anniversary "Jaws" celebration.

NEED TO KNOW. Jaws was released in theaters on June 20, 1975. The thriller was based on the best-selling book by Peter Benchley. There are similarities between the events in Jaws and a series of ...