News

The galaxy far, far away just got even closer.

If binge-watching the films aren’t enough, fans can now step inside the Star Wars universe at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando — and People is giving you an intimate look at everything it has to offer.

“Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the home of Star Wars,” J. Michael Roddy, Walt Disney World’s Creative Entertainment Show Director, tells People. “If you want to play in the Star Wars world, this is where you need to come.”

From the March of the First Order led by Captain Phasma to Jedi training,...

Michael McCormack, a life-long fan of “Jaws,” is Composer and Co-Producer of .The Shark Is Still Working: the Impact and Legacy of Jaws. This original soundtrack includes 38 tracks consisting of new instrumental music and two sea shanties inspired by, and meant to evoke, the impact and legacy of the enduring classic film, Jaws.

Narrated by Chief Martin Brody himself, Roy Scheider, this feature-length documentary focuses squarely on the many ways Jaws has helped to shape these elements of pop culture. In addition, Tsisw proudly showcases many of the fans, artists, and craftsmen who keep this film alive, examining some of the creative venues through which they express their passion for the film. It covers the recent events at Jawsfest.05, celebrating the picture.s thirtieth anniversary and highlights Jaws homages and send-ups from pop culture. Interviews with the cast and crew, and prominent filmmakers whose careers have been duly influenced by...

SL500_AA300.jpg" alt="Jaws (Universal 100th Anniversary) [Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet]" />

By Todd Garbarini

All good things come to those who wait. That being said the reason why Blu-ray was invented is finally here. Steven Spielberg's Jaws, arguably the first and the greatest summer movie ever made, in addition to being one of the best American films of all-time, has been given a complete digital 4K restoration derived from the original camera negative. The results are magnificent. A far cry from the McA DiscoVision laser disc, the Capacitance Electronic Disc (Ced) by RCA, the VHS tape, the 20th anniversary letterboxed laser disc, or even the past two previous DVD incarnations (which were admittedly pretty decent), the new Blu-ray most closely approximates what it was like to see Jaws for the first time in movie theaters in the summer of 1975. Best of all, the Blu-ray cover retains artist Roger Kastel’s iconic poster art.

The 1975 classic Jaws was released on Blu-ray for the first time this week in honor of Universal Pictures' 100 year anniversary. To celebrate its anticipated debut, we sent our own Ryan J. Downey to the Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood, where he met with some of the folks responsible for making this legendary thriller. Gathering at the infamous Jaws attraction, Downey talked with shark designer Joe Alves, actor (Meadows) and co-writer Carl Gottlieb, Svp Universal Technical Operations' Mike Daruty, and J. Michael Roddy, producer of the new Blu-ray documentary 'The Shark is Still Working'. Watch and learn how this timeless masterpiece has kept millions of people out of the ocean and glued to the screen for over thirty years.

Jaws Exclusive Interview: Joe Alves

Jaws Exclusive Interview: Carl Gottlieb

Jaws Exclusive Interview: J. Michael Roddy

Jaws Exclusive Interview: Michael Daruty

Jaws was released June 20th, 1975 and stars Roy Scheider,...

Welcome to Jaws Week! When it was announced that Steven Spielberg's Jaws was arriving on Blu-ray, we thought it'd be perfect to dedicate an entire week to the movie that created the summer blockbuster. Every day this week we'll be posting an assortment of really fun features tied to the film, its production, its legacy, its fans, its merchandise and so much more. We're all about Jaws this week with its fully restored Blu-ray release, and a few weeks ago in advance of it we got a chance to chat with the movie's production designer, Joe Alves, and J. Michael Roddy, producer of the brand-new feature-length documentary The Shark Is Still Working, which features never-before-sceen footage and interviews (it's included on the Bd). Check out the video for insight...

Read More...

Jaws, the landmark motion picture that still makes audiences afraid to go in the water comes to Blu-ray for the first time ever on August 14th, 2012. To celebrate, Wamg got to sit down with Joe Alves (Jaws production designer), Carl Gottlieb (Played “Meadows”. and co-wrote Jaws), and J. Michael Roddy (Producer, The Shark Is Still Working) and talk about the film, and it’s continued impact on film lovers everywhere.

The best part is that all of the interviews were shot at Jaws Lake at Universal Studios Hollywood, so occasionally you might see something in the water.

Carl Gottlieb (Played “Meadows” and co-wrote Jaws)

Joe Alves (Jaws production designer)

J. Michael Roddy (Producer, The Shark Is Still Working)

Synopsis:

Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your seat suspense quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the movie industry. When the seaside community of...

J. Michael Roddy was only six years old in the summer of 1975, but like the rest of the country, he developed shark fever after seeing Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. “There are two things that are really cool to a six year old boy, and that’s dinosaurs and sharks,” says Roddy. “I begged my parents to let me see Jaws, and it was the first time I remember being completely lost in a film. It changed my life.”

Roddy isn’t alone. Jaws changed a lot of people’s lives, beginning with the then 28-year-old Spielberg himself. But in The Shark is Still Working,...

Pretty much any movie fans worth their salt would call themselves a fan of Spielberg's 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws. However, filmmaker J. Michael Roddy has all of us beat in the fan department.

Roddy embarked on making an extensive documentary in honor of Jaws back in 2005, and now with Universal Studios' upcoming release of the restored film on Blu-ray next week, fans everywhere will finally have the opportunities to enjoy the fruits of Roddy's labor over the last seven years via his extensive look back at the film that forever changed the cinematic landscape in 1975.

During the recent press day held at Jaws Lake on the Universal Studios backlot, Dread Central had the opportunity to chat with Roddy about all things Jaws- its legacy, why it has endured and what kept him going to get The Shark Is Still Working finished up over the last few years.

Check out...

August 1-8, the Alamo is presenting a series of shark-related films that will get you out of the water and into a movie.

Every year, a certain nerdy TV channel stops airing clips of lions making love and boosts its ratings by devoting every moment of seven glorious days to nature’s rudest fish. The shark is like the Superfly of the sea, and the species’ amazing feats are as hypnotizing as they are horrifying. A couple of months ago we were talking about the sharkiest movies ever and we decided we should have our own Shark Week and to hell with everybody else.

On their Shark Week no one leaves the house. Everyone is glued to their sets, watching those damn teeth regenerate and those fins squirm. Well, not ours! We’re going to have a little fun this year, in what promises to be the first annual Shark Week at the Alamo.

The makers of what looks to be be a fascinating independent retrospective documentary about the Psycho films and their spin-offs, The Psycho Legacy, have released a new trailer. It comes ahead of a possible release of the film later this year. It can be viewed by clicking on the Trailer tab above.

The original Psycho will be 50 years old next year. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a script by Joseph Stefano based on the novel by Robert Bloch. The film helped to make a star of Anthony Perkins, who played the murderous Norman Bates. Psycho became notorious for a scene in which the character of Marion Crane (played by Janet Leigh) is knifed in the shower. It is also remembered for the iconic image of the Bates Motel.

Psycho spawned two theatrical sequels, Psycho II in 1983 and Psycho III in 1986, as well as a fourth made-for-television prequel, Psycho IV: The Beginning...

Anyone familiar with the making of Steven Spielberg's classic film Jaws will know that there were times when the making of the movie was a nightmare for everyone on set. In hindsight, though, it was definitely worth the trouble because of the influence the film has had and the devotion shown by its many fans.

None of those fans can be more devoted that the makers of The Shark is Still Working (Tsisw). Tsisw is an independently-made documentary that oozes adoration for Jaws. Nonetheless, it manages to be nautical miles better than many making-of features Hollywood puts out as glorified advertising for its products. It was produced by uber-Jaws fans James Gelet (Grizzly Park, The Marks of a Cult: A Biblical Analysis), Jake Gove (webmaster of JAWSmovie.com), J. Michael Roddy (The Psycho Legacy), and director and  Jaws prop collector Erik Hollander (Grizzly Park). The appreciation these people...