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The Ultimate ‘Jaws’ Location Guide Uses Google Earth to Take You on a Virtual Tour of Amity Island!
Created by David Bigelow, Jim Beller and John Campopiano, The Ultimate Jaws Location Guide is now live for your enjoyment, providing a virtual tour of the franchise’s filming locations.
The team notes in the press release, “Using Google Earth technology, our goal is for this map to be the most comprehensive and accurate Jaws location resource anywhere.”
This interactive 3D map marks the pre-production and production locations from Spielberg’s Jaws as well as other significant Jaws-related sites on Martha’s Vineyard.
The map also includes areas in Los Angeles where additional shots from Jaws were filmed, as well as Martha’s Vineyard locations used in the filming of Jaws 2 and Jaws: The Revenge.
Bigelow said in a statement, “We’re excited to bring this resource to fans of Jaws. We wanted to share it with the world as we believe it’s unlike any other map developed for the 1974 production. The map will be available online in both desktop and mobile formats so that it can be enjoyed at home or as a mobile companion to visiting Martha’s Vineyard and touring the locations in person.”
There are currently 70+ points on the map, which take you directly to various filming locations from Jaws, Jaws 2 and Jaws: The Revenge, along with insights and (in many cases) never-before-seen production photographs of those locations. This is an INCREDIBLE resource for Jaws fans, loaded with information and bringing you inside Amity Island like never before.
Pay a virtual visit to Amity on desktop and mobile today!
The Ultimate Jaws Location Guide project is part of the ongoing research for the forthcoming docudrama series about the troubled Jaws production, Making the Monster.
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‘Abigail’ on Track for a Better Opening Weekend Than Universal’s Previous Two Vampire Attempts
In the wake of Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man back in 2020, Universal has been struggling to achieve further box office success with their Universal Monsters brand. Even in the early days of the pandemic, Invisible Man scared up $144 million at the worldwide box office, while last year’s Universal Monsters: Dracula movies The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Renfield didn’t even approach that number when you COMBINE their individual box office hauls.
The horror-comedy Renfield came along first in April 2023, ending its run with just $26 million. The period piece Last Voyage of the Demeter ended its own run with a mere $21 million.
But Universal is trying again with their ballerina vampire movie Abigail this weekend, the latest bloodbath directed by the filmmakers known as Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream).
Unlike Demeter and Renfield, the early reviews for Abigail are incredibly strong, with our own Meagan Navarro calling the film “savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore,” ultimately “offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.” Read her full review here.
That early buzz – coupled with some excellent trailers – should drive Abigail to moderate box office success, the film already scaring up $1 million in Thursday previews last night. Variety notes that Abigail is currently on track to enjoy a $12 million – $15 million opening weekend, which would smash Renfield ($8 million) and Demeter’s ($6 million) opening weekends.
Working to Abigail‘s advantage is the film’s reported $28 million production budget, making it a more affordable box office bet for Universal than the two aforementioned movies.
Stay tuned for more box office reporting in the coming days.
In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
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