Jaws Movie Posters

Welcome to the official Film/Art Gallery collection of original Jaws vintage movie posters. Film/Art Gallery’s offers a wide range of movie posters and artwork for cinema’s ultimate thriller film.

Jaws is a 1975 thriller film based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is about a man-eating white shark which attacks the beachgoers at a summer resort town, encouraging the chief of police to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional hunter.

The movie was given by Universal Picture a wide release for a major studio picture, accompanied by huge marketing campaign. The movie was a blockbuster, with the highest-grossing film until the release of Star Wars in 1977. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected the movie for the preservation in the United States National Film Registry as historical, cultural, or aesthetical significant.

Even so, Spielberg adhere to the request of Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, both producer, to cast known actors, but he wanted to avoid hiring big stars. The first drafts of the screenplay was written by Benchley and actor-writer, Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during the principal photography. The first actors cast were Lorraine Gary, as Ellen Brody, and Murray Hamilton, as the mayor of the Amity Island. Rody Scheider portrayed the role of Brody, a police chief, and Robert Dreyfuss, a marine biologist and the professional shark hunter, Robert Shaw.

Jaws has opened in 409 theaters with a grossed record of $21,116,354 for the first 10 days. It became the first movie to earn $100 million in the U.S. theatrical rentals in its 59 days from 954 playdates. It was released again in 1976 and 1979 and brought a total of $133.4 million.

Film/Art Gallery’s collection of original Jaws movie posters includes the first Turkish release poster for the blockbuster. Also included in the Jaws poster collection is an advance NYC subway poster for the shark sequel, Jaws 2 (artwork is by Lou Feck).

Film/Art Gallery movie posters are original prints and film poster collectibles. These are original movie posters. We do not carry any movie poster reproductions or reprints of any kind.