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50 Years Ago, Steven Spielberg's Jaws Reshaped The Box Office Forever


50 years later and Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' is still the blueprint for how Hollywood releases their summer blockbusters.

The young Spielberg broke one of Hollywood's cardinal rules to film "Jaws" in the ocean, which made the production a brutal undertaking. That seismic shift in the way movies were released and the way they made money at the box office can be traced back to the success of Spielberg's beloved blockbuster. From "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Jurassic Park," his career would come to be defined by bold entries in the canon of blockbuster cinema that he helped give birth to.

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