It's been 50 years since the late author Peter Benchley introduced us to "Jaws," a fictional man-eating great white shark that terrorized the summer resort village of Amity, Long Island, and our ...

“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” Author Peter Benchley’s first line to his 1974 bestseller “Jaws” ignited a phenomenon that led ...

Laurent Bouzereau will direct the feature that includes footage and photography from author Peter Benchley and film director Spielberg's respective archives. Spielberg, who helmed the iconic 1975 film ...

The legacy of “Jaws” lives forever for Wendy Benchley. Benchley, the widow of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley and an executive producer on the new documentary “Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story,” ...

More stories by Kevin P. A little over a year before Jaws opened in theaters and forever changed the next 50 years of cinema, it was a best-selling debut novel by author Peter Benchley. "That is a ...

The summertime beaches of 1975 were empty, but the movie theaters were full thanks to Steven Spielberg’s thriller Jaws. Considered by film historians to be the first-ever summer blockbuster, Jaws put ...

Peter Benchley, who lived in Princeton for over three decades until his 2006 death, wrote one of the most successful debut novels of all time, "Jaws," published in 1974. The movie of the same name ...