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JAWS opens. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, from Benchley's best-selling novel. Powered by a saturation ad campaign and a radical (at the time) multi-screen day & date national release strategy, Spielberg's celebrated shark thriller crashes through the $100m box-office barrier and singlehandedly ushers in the age of the summer blockbuster. With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton.
