Overview

• More than 260 German cinemas are showing the film again from August 5, including venues from major-city multiplexes to historic single-screen theaters.
• Wieland Schwanebeck’s commemorative volume 'DER WEISSE HAI revisited' has been reissued with essays from 20 contributors examining Spielberg’s role in shaping blockbuster culture.
• A 50th-anniversary documentary revealing Spielberg’s on-set panic attacks premiered in June and later aired on National Geographic.
• Jaws pioneered the summer blockbuster through unprecedented marketing and suspense-driven techniques born of mechanical shark failures.
• The film’s dramatic portrayal of sharks both fueled public fear of ocean predators and contributed to long-term declines in white shark populations.