Bruce (film prop shark's name) showing off his chompers in ‘Jaws’ (Universal)
Cue the music and clear the water, Jaws is resurfacing in Hollywood.
The only surviving shark model from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster is heading to the Academy Museum, the under-construction facility in Los Angeles that will house the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ unmatched collection of cinema memorabilia.
Aside from the Jaws specimens, the Academy Museum’s holdings include 62,000 pieces of production art — ranging from a Planet of the Apes mask to a model horse head made for The Godfather to the lion’s mane and ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz — in addition to 12 million photographs, 80,000 screenplays, prints of 80,000 films, 55,000 posters, and reams of printed materials, including production notes, diaries, correspondence, storyboards, and personal scrapbooks. The museum will be housed in the historic May Company building on L.A.’s Miracle Mile and is set to open in 2017.
bye and TGIF.
