SUPER COOL NEW GAME: JAWS™ PINBALL HAS A NEW TRAILER!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…take on the terrifying great white shark in Jaws™ Pinball!

Based on the blockbuster film, this virtual pinball experience lets you relive your favorite moments with a game play twist. Turn the tides by playing as the shark in several game modes or start modes based on select movie scenes!

Jaws™ Pinball will release in the upcoming Universal Classics™ Pinball collection for Pinball FX3 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, and for Zen Pinball on iOS, Google Play and Mac. The collection also includes tables based on Back to the Future™ and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial™

Jaws Pinball Table Features:

Find and defeat the great white shark threatening Amity Island in Quint's Main Modes!

Terrorize Amity Island's local residents and visiting tourists in the Jaws Main Modes!

Keep the ball in play during the Raging Sea mode as the table becomes unsteady and the sea takes control!

Start different multiballs, play fast-paced frenzy modes and max out your score!
Set sail as night falls or navigate just before sunset!

Link to the Jaws Pinball trailer.

JAWS THE BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE WAS RELEASED JUNE 20 1975!

We were living in Ft Lauderdale when Jaws was released. The beaches were deserted! The book was scary the year before but the movie was terrifying! We look for sharks even in fresh water lakes to this day! OMG that theme song!!

The movie opens with the girl Chrissie skinny dipping in the ocean was never to be forgotten! I can't watch this part to this day.

June 20, 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars.

Jaws was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category and took home three Oscars, for Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound. The film, a breakthrough for director Spielberg, then 27 years old, spawned three sequels.

The film starred Roy Scheider as principled police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist named Matt Hooper and Robert Shaw as a grizzled fisherman called Quint.

It was set in the fictional beach town of Amity, and based on a best-selling novel, released in 1973, by Peter Benchley. Subsequent water-themed Benchley bestsellers also made it to the big screen, including The Deep (1977).

With a budget of $12 million, Jaws was produced by the team of Richard Zanuck and David Brown, whose later credits include The Verdict (1982), Cocoon (1985) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Filming, which took place on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was plagued by delays and technical difficulties, including malfunctioning mechanical sharks.

We got to see Bruce the shark in person at Universal Studios in California in 1976. It was a fun ride.

MICHIGAN THEATER PRESENTS: SPIELBERG FILM SERIES MAN AND MONSTERS!

The Michigan Theater is proud to present a three-month film series entitled Steven Spielberg: Man and Monsters, starting September 14 running through November 28. The retrospective features 18 films that reflect the master storyteller’s exploration of humanity contending with the monster within and the monsters of the unknown.

Spielberg remains one of the most prolific and admired filmmakers of contemporary cinema, whose rich filmography spans a portfolio of iconic dramatic pieces, rousing adventures, suspense thrillers and family-friendly comedies.

The series focuses on Spielberg’s poignant studies of human character such as his acclaimed adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple,” classic creatures like the lovable protagonist of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” or Feivel of “An American Tail,” and iconic monsters such as the frightening dagger-toothed antagonist of “Jaws.”

The series is generously sponsored by Ann Arbor’s Money Source Financial Services. Regular ticket prices apply and tickets can be purchased online at michtheater.org or at the box office.

· Monday, September 14 at 7:00 pm - Duel (1971)

· Monday, September 21 at 7:00 pm - The Sugarland Express (1974)

· Sunday, September 27 at 1:30 pm at the State Theatre – An American Tail (1986)

Part of the Toyota Family-Friendly Film Series (kids under 12 are admitted for free

· Monday, September 28 at 7:00 pm - Jaws (1975)

· Monday, October 5 at 7:00 pm - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

· Monday, October 12 at 7:00 pm - A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

· Saturday, October 17 1:30 pm - E.T. The Extra- Terrestrial (1982)

 Part of the Toyota Family-Friendly Film Series -kids under 12 are admitted for free

· Monday, October 19 at 7:00 pm - War of the Worlds (2005)

· Monday, October 26 at 7:00 pm - Amistad (1997)

· Monday, November 2 at 7:00 pm - Lincoln (2012)

· Saturday, November 7 at 11:00 pm Late Night at the State Theatre - Jurassic Park (1993)

· Monday, November 9 at 7:00 pm - The Color Purple (1985)

· Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 pm - Saving Private Ryan (1998) *Free Admission for Veterans

· Saturday, November 14 at 1:30 pm - The Adventures of TinTin in 3D (2011)

 Part of the Toyota Family-Friendly Film Series -kids under 12 are admitted for free

· Monday, November 16 at 7:00 pm - Empire of the Sun (1987)

· Monday, November 23 at 7:00 pm - Munich (2005)

· Saturday, November 28 at 11:00 pm Late Night Double Feature at the State Theatre - Raiders of the Lost Ark( 1981) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

20 FT GREAT WHITE: BIGGEST SHARK ON FILM!

A clip going viral across the web today depicts Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, one of the Shark Week shark experts, defiantly poking his body out of a shark cage and high-fiving Deep Blue, a massive 20 ft pregnant great white shark spotted off of the coast of Mexico's Guadalupe Island:

Her pregnancy at the time made her appear even larger -- Deep Blue is estimated to be approximately 20 feet in length. She was featured prominently in Shark Week 2014 programming. Check out some more official Shark Week footage of the giant shark: