‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie That Invented The Summer Blockbuster
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On June 20, 1975, Jaws opened across North America and changed the film business forever. Opening a film in the middle of summer was considered box office suicide before Jaws. The time was for swimming and sunbathing at the beach, not…

