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I doubt they will issue Blus of the other Jaws movies at this point, but I could be wrong. Their perfect window to do this was with the first movie - to make a box like the Back to the Future or Jurassic Park movies. And the early list that got leaked showed a 3D Blu-ray of Jaws 3, but that...

Scheider didn't punch out Jeannot. But they did get into it as I understand it, and Verna Fields separated them.

The Jaws 2 production by pretty much all accounts was a disaster before Jeannot Szwarc came in to get a handle on it. But even then the situation was strained. You can see some of the results of this onscreen, but overall it works okay as a movie. Watching it today, it feels overlong, with...

The novelization of Jaws 2 (and I think Jaws 4) was by Hank Searls. I remember the novelization of 2 being interesting, but I read it as a 12 year old and don't remember much about it now. As for the one girl that gets lovingly munched by the shark in 2, I've never seen a shot of her...

First, thank you very much to Alan Tully for the immortal line: "No one looks their best when their son has just been eaten by a shark." Thank you to Carter for noting that the kids in The Birds had it coming. Laugh attacks like this are very entertaining for my co-workers. Second, I...

Barry, can you clarify what you're thinking here? This is absolutely not a matter of a title being DNR'd into oblivion or both RAH and I would have discussed that. I do know that the PQ was specifically approved by Amblin and Spielberg. Spielberg is very happy with the Blu-ray and has...

Rich, I think the guys here have already been naming various movies the shot is in. I have a feeling that somebody somewhere has a blog posting that rounds up a bunch of them. My own experience is mostly in episodic television. I could name episodes of Jag, Murder One and Private...

Rich, I'll go with your research. Thanks for the correction. I honestly have not spent time looking over the books on the zolly shot - I only know what I've seen us do on set to make it happen.

On my current set, one of our actors called it a "Zolly" when we did it. And yes, it's a simultaneous fast zoom and dolly, with each move going in opposition to the other. If I'm seeing it correctly, the move in Vertigo is a dolly in, zoom out, as the background stretches away from us...

I am now going to update my review and take the sound evaluation up to the full 5 stars. Thanks to the gracious help of Ron, the owner of Laser Blazer in Los Angeles, I have been able to check the audio (and picture) on four laserdisc releases of Jaws, to confirm that the mono audio on the...

Brody had endured a hard day, including getting slapped in public for letting people go swimming with the shark when he should have told the Mayor to jump in the lake. I'll allow him the whisky (which was most likely not his first of the evening), the horrifying pour of the red wine into the...

There was a documentary I saw on E! about ten years ago, which was much rawer than the Bouzereau documentary, and included an interview with Craig Kingsbury, which I enjoyed as a good companion piece to the official item. The materials from the laserdisc are still in good video condition...

Carter, I really appreciate your enthusiasm for this material, and I appreciate your noting the detail I try to get in these reviews. I think you and I may view some of it a little differently but toward the same ends. I can easily adjust my "Full Frame" notation to just say 4x3 and I...

Re Pillarboxing and 4x3 on the extra features, I realize there may be some confusion stemming from the terminology. Up to now, I have used what I believe to be a standardized set of terms to reflect the various video presentation options: 1. Full Frame - a 4x3 box in the middle of...

I didn't realize that we could parse the PQ to this extent on the SD materials ported over in much of these cases all the way from the laserdisc. I'll be honest - I don't normally look for anamorphic pillow-boxing. To my eye, if the content is full frame in the center of the screen, I refer...

The interview with Spielberg in the Bouzereau documentary shows how much fun he was having with both the Ben Gardner head bit and the chumming bit. He describes the latter bit as an experiment about trying to turn a laugh into a scream, and notes that after its success, he got greedy and went...

A few quick notes here: 1. Thank you for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated. 2. I should have mentioned that there is a digibook packaging available if you buy the Blu-ray via Best Buy, and I believe there is a steelbook packaging available there as well. My review is...

Wasn't meaning to insult The Shark is Still Working. It's clearly a labor of love for the guys who made it. Carter is right to point out that Laurent Bouzereau is a big Spielberg fan, and his documentary on Jaws is the first one on his list of credits. But we can't ignore that Bouzereau was...

<p> <strong>Jaws</strong> surfaces on Blu-ray this upcoming week in a Universal 100^th Anniversary Edition that really honors that birthday.&nbsp; The movie itself continues to be effective and compelling, some 37 years after its theatrical release.&nbsp; Fans of the movie will have a...