Almost 50 years after it established the summer blockbuster as we know it today, Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws was re-released in theaters over the weekend for Labor Day Weekend, bringing the all-time classic back onto the box office charts all these decades later.
Jaws is currently sitting at the #8 spot on the domestic box office charts, the 1975 movie scaring up $3,320,000 across the four-day Labor Day Weekend release here in the year 2022!
The film was released in IMAX and RealD 3D for the very first time beginning this past Friday, with Jaws making its way into 1,244 theaters across the United States for the long weekend.
The good news? Jaws will continue playing in theaters for the next several days, so if you weren’t able to get out to a participating theater over the weekend you still have a chance to experience the original summer blockbuster on the big screen in both IMAX and RealD 3D.
Watch the official IMAX trailer below and get your tickets now from Fandango!
“We’re enhancing the 3D by kind of bringing the water out into the audience, at the beginning of the film with, Chrissy, where she’s swimming,” stereographer Jeremy Carroll — who led the conversion to 3D, with direction by Spielberg — told The Hollywood Reporter’s Behind the Screen. “That’s an intentional choice that we made to really kind of bring the audience into those shots to make you feel like you’re in the water with her to up that tension.”
“It was just kind of watching the shots and playing the stereo according to the way they were shot,” he continued. “It was always about making the shark feel big and giving you that sense of scale and depth of the shark in the water. There’s a lot of really wonderful scenes in the film where you can kind of really feel the shark underneath the water plane, but you can see all the details on top of the water and you get a really nice sense of volume and scale.
“We can play out the stereo to make you feel like you’re really in the water with the characters and the kids that are playing. The point of view of the shark is he’s swimming around, getting very close to their feet, but not quite touching.”
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