Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 20, 2025
Jaws is an American thriller film that was released on June 20, 1975, directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the 1974 novel Jaws (cover pictured) by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that has attacked beachgoers at his summer resort town. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures to more than 450 screens, a wide release for the time. It was extensively marketed and followed by three sequels. Regarded as a watershed in motion picture history, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster and the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars two years later; both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. (Full article...)