Just one month after Spooky Pinball turned Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre into a real-life pinball machine, Stern Pinball has announced an official Jaws pinball machine!
Jaws pinball games are available in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition (Le) models.
Players will experience the original trilogy of films like never before with brand-new mechanical features inspired by iconic movie moments and state-of-the-art technology.
Jaws brings players to the beloved, fictional locale of Amity Island, located off the coast of Long Island, New York. The small fishing community becomes a popular beach vacation location in the summer months, but as Fourth of July vacationers close in on the island’s picturesque beaches, grave danger lurks below sea level…the Amity Island mayor attempts to cover up shark attacks out of fear of losing the island’s tourism money, resulting in several terrifying attacks.
Playing as Quint, Stern’s Jaws...
Jaws pinball games are available in Pro, Premium, and Limited Edition (Le) models.
Players will experience the original trilogy of films like never before with brand-new mechanical features inspired by iconic movie moments and state-of-the-art technology.
Jaws brings players to the beloved, fictional locale of Amity Island, located off the coast of Long Island, New York. The small fishing community becomes a popular beach vacation location in the summer months, but as Fourth of July vacationers close in on the island’s picturesque beaches, grave danger lurks below sea level…the Amity Island mayor attempts to cover up shark attacks out of fear of losing the island’s tourism money, resulting in several terrifying attacks.
Playing as Quint, Stern’s Jaws...
- 1/4/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A couple years ago, Spooky Pinball LLC created a pinball machine inspired by John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween, and last month they announced that they’re building a Texas Chainsaw Massacre pinball machine, inspired by Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic. Now the folks at Stern Pinball Inc. have unveiled a trailer for the latest pinball machine they’ve made, inspired by another ’70s classic – and another one of the best movies ever made – director Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster Jaws! You can watch the trailer for the pinball machine in the embed above.
According to a press release, this pinball machine has “brand-new mechanical features inspired by iconic movie moments and state-of-the-art technology. Jaws transports players to the fictional locale of Amity Island, located off the coast of Long Island, New York. The small fishing community is a popular beach vacation location in the summer. As Fourth of July vacationers close in...
According to a press release, this pinball machine has “brand-new mechanical features inspired by iconic movie moments and state-of-the-art technology. Jaws transports players to the fictional locale of Amity Island, located off the coast of Long Island, New York. The small fishing community is a popular beach vacation location in the summer. As Fourth of July vacationers close in...
- 1/4/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Roger Kastel, the artist behind the famed “Jaws” poster of a leviathan lurking underneath a swimmer, has died at the age of 92 from heart and kidney failure.
The unforgettable image was originally used as the cover for the paperback version of the Peter Benchley novel that the movie was based on; it was later appropriated by the movie’s promotional and marketing campaign.
The original hardcover artwork featured a much smoother, less menacing-looking shark. Kastel gave it some teeth.
Movie poster illustrator Roger Karl Kastel, whose iconic works include the posters for Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back, has died at age 92, per his website. https://t.co/NkZ17OBlg1 pic.twitter.com/nOBFhEkiOi
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 16, 2023
Kastel also created another poster that has been lodged in the memories of countless moviegoers – the “Gone with the Wind”-indebted poster for “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.” This is the...
The unforgettable image was originally used as the cover for the paperback version of the Peter Benchley novel that the movie was based on; it was later appropriated by the movie’s promotional and marketing campaign.
The original hardcover artwork featured a much smoother, less menacing-looking shark. Kastel gave it some teeth.
Movie poster illustrator Roger Karl Kastel, whose iconic works include the posters for Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back, has died at age 92, per his website. https://t.co/NkZ17OBlg1 pic.twitter.com/nOBFhEkiOi
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 16, 2023
Kastel also created another poster that has been lodged in the memories of countless moviegoers – the “Gone with the Wind”-indebted poster for “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.” This is the...
- 11/16/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Roger Karl Kastel, the illustrator behind some of the most memorable movie poster images of all time, has died. He passed away November 8, at age 92 in Worcester County, Ma, according to the post on his official web site.
Kastel’s best-known work included imagery central to the posters for Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back. He also illustrated vivid book covers for the likes of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives and W.G Wells’ The Invisible Man.
His Jaws illustration was originally created for Peter Benchley’s novel on which the film was based. Describing the process of its creation, Kastel remembered, “I did a very rough sketch, and [the publisher] said, ‘That’s great, just make the shark realistic and bigger. Make him very much bigger!'”
It worked. Benchley’s book was a bestseller and Universal execs, knowing a good thing when they saw it,...
Kastel’s best-known work included imagery central to the posters for Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back. He also illustrated vivid book covers for the likes of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives and W.G Wells’ The Invisible Man.
His Jaws illustration was originally created for Peter Benchley’s novel on which the film was based. Describing the process of its creation, Kastel remembered, “I did a very rough sketch, and [the publisher] said, ‘That’s great, just make the shark realistic and bigger. Make him very much bigger!'”
It worked. Benchley’s book was a bestseller and Universal execs, knowing a good thing when they saw it,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Roger Kastel, the artist whose painting of a shark and a swimmer for the cover of the paperback version of Peter Benchley’s Jaws was used as the iconic movie poster for the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, has died. He was 92.
Kastel died Nov. 8 of kidney and heart failure at a hospice facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, his wife of 66 years, Grace, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kastel also did the Gone With the Wind-inspired poster for the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and came up with the posters for such other films as Doctor Faustus (1967), starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and The Great Train Robbery (1978), starring Sean Connery.
Benchley’s Jaws was first published by Doubleday in February 1974, with its hard-cover art by artist Paul Bacon. For his oil painting that would be employed for the Bantam Books paperback edition, Kastel tweaked that image, making the shark...
Kastel died Nov. 8 of kidney and heart failure at a hospice facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, his wife of 66 years, Grace, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kastel also did the Gone With the Wind-inspired poster for the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and came up with the posters for such other films as Doctor Faustus (1967), starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and The Great Train Robbery (1978), starring Sean Connery.
Benchley’s Jaws was first published by Doubleday in February 1974, with its hard-cover art by artist Paul Bacon. For his oil painting that would be employed for the Bantam Books paperback edition, Kastel tweaked that image, making the shark...
- 11/15/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the most iconic pieces of movie poster artwork of all time is the original art for Steven Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws, the work of an artist by the name of Roger Kastel.
Bloody Disgusting is sad to learn this week that Kastel, who also painted the equally iconic poster for The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away at the age of 91.
The legendary Jaws art, which has been parodied and ripped off countless times over the years, was originally created as new cover art for Peter Benchley’s novel. That paperback artwork was eventually purchased by Universal, who used it as the art for Spielberg’s movie.
Kastel recalled his process in the documentary The Shark Is Still Working, “I did a very rough sketch, and [the publisher] said ‘That’s great, just make the shark realistic and bigger. Make him very much bigger!'” Kastel of course obliged,...
Bloody Disgusting is sad to learn this week that Kastel, who also painted the equally iconic poster for The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away at the age of 91.
The legendary Jaws art, which has been parodied and ripped off countless times over the years, was originally created as new cover art for Peter Benchley’s novel. That paperback artwork was eventually purchased by Universal, who used it as the art for Spielberg’s movie.
Kastel recalled his process in the documentary The Shark Is Still Working, “I did a very rough sketch, and [the publisher] said ‘That’s great, just make the shark realistic and bigger. Make him very much bigger!'” Kastel of course obliged,...
- 11/15/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Over forty years on from its original release, John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London remains one of the best werewolf movies of all time, and Vice Press is celebrating the 1981 horror classic with a limited edition poster release on Thursday, August 17.
“There have been plenty of amazing posters released for the movie over the years, but none as iconic as the original 1981 International One Sheet. For us it stands up there as one of the best examples, of poster art alongside Drew Struzan’s The Thing and Roger Kastel’s Jaws and on the 17th of August, Vice Press will be making it available to add to your collection as a limited edition poster release,” Vice Press explains exclusively to Bloody Disgusting this afternoon.
The art will be available in two sizes, a 24×36 inch screen print, limited to an edition of just 100, and a smaller fine art pigment print,...
“There have been plenty of amazing posters released for the movie over the years, but none as iconic as the original 1981 International One Sheet. For us it stands up there as one of the best examples, of poster art alongside Drew Struzan’s The Thing and Roger Kastel’s Jaws and on the 17th of August, Vice Press will be making it available to add to your collection as a limited edition poster release,” Vice Press explains exclusively to Bloody Disgusting this afternoon.
The art will be available in two sizes, a 24×36 inch screen print, limited to an edition of just 100, and a smaller fine art pigment print,...
- 8/14/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Yorgos Lanthimos's Nimic is exclusively showing on Mubi in the Luminaries series.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s poster for Nimic.Has there ever been a graphic designer more closely allied with a filmmaker than Vasilis Marmatakis is with Yorgos Lanthimos? Saul Bass and Otto Preminger are the team that most easily come to mind, but even then, though Preminger was a great supporter of and advocate for Bass’s work, I don’t feel that Bass’s designs quite express Preminger’s ethos in the same way that Marmatakis’s designs encapsulate the wonderful strangeness of Lanthimos’s work. Starting with Dogtooth in 2009, Marmatakis has created the windows to his friend’s worlds with a series of iconic posters that are among the very best of the past 20 years.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s posters for Yorgos Lanthimos’s films (clockwise from top left) Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), Alps (2011), The Favourite (2018) and...
- 11/28/2020
- MUBI
A rare “Star Wars” concept poster for “The Empire Strikes Back” has sold for $26,400, making it the most expensive movie poster from the franchise ever sold in an auction.
According to Heritage Auctions, the poster was expected to sell between $5,000 and $10,0000. A long-time pop culture collector, who asked to remain anonymous, reportedly purchased the poster on Sunday in Dallas.
“This poster is considered to be one of the more rare posters in the entire Star Wars trilogy,” said Grey Smith, director of vintage posters at Heritage Auctions, in a statement. “This poster is unique as it features the complete Kastel artwork in the original color palette for the second in George Lucas’ trilogy.”
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According to Heritage, the poster was a trial run by artist Roger Kastel, who took inspiration for the print...
According to Heritage Auctions, the poster was expected to sell between $5,000 and $10,0000. A long-time pop culture collector, who asked to remain anonymous, reportedly purchased the poster on Sunday in Dallas.
“This poster is considered to be one of the more rare posters in the entire Star Wars trilogy,” said Grey Smith, director of vintage posters at Heritage Auctions, in a statement. “This poster is unique as it features the complete Kastel artwork in the original color palette for the second in George Lucas’ trilogy.”
Also Read: Leia Returns: 'Star Wars: Episode IX' Will Use 'Previously Unreleased Footage' of Carrie Fisher
According to Heritage, the poster was a trial run by artist Roger Kastel, who took inspiration for the print...
- 8/1/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Above: Us festival one sheet for Hal (Amy Scott, USA, 2018). Designed by Midnight Marauder.One of the best and most inventive movie poster designers currently at work, the L.A.-based artist known as Midnight Marauder should be no stranger to followers of my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr and annual top 10 lists. A graphic designer for some 20 years, Mm a.k.a. Emmanuel, has been designing movie posters for the past five years. He has had two very fruitful collaborations in that time, first with Terrence Malick for whom he has designed a number of posters, most notably the teaser for Knight of Cups, and more recently with the great Berlin-based Italian illustrator Tony Stella with whom he has been producing beautiful alternative posters for films like The Phantom Thread. Together they also designed the poster for the 50th anniversary release of The Great Silence, which opens in theaters today.
- 3/30/2018
- MUBI
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By Todd Garbarini
All good things come to those who wait. That being said the reason why Blu-ray was invented is finally here. Steven Spielberg's Jaws, arguably the first and the greatest summer movie ever made, in addition to being one of the best American films of all-time, has been given a complete digital 4K restoration derived from the original camera negative. The results are magnificent. A far cry from the McA DiscoVision laser disc, the Capacitance Electronic Disc (Ced) by RCA, the VHS tape, the 20th anniversary letterboxed laser disc, or even the past two previous DVD incarnations (which were admittedly pretty decent), the new Blu-ray most closely approximates what it was like to see Jaws for the first time in movie theaters in the summer of 1975. Best of all, the Blu-ray cover retains artist Roger Kastel’s iconic poster art.
By Todd Garbarini
All good things come to those who wait. That being said the reason why Blu-ray was invented is finally here. Steven Spielberg's Jaws, arguably the first and the greatest summer movie ever made, in addition to being one of the best American films of all-time, has been given a complete digital 4K restoration derived from the original camera negative. The results are magnificent. A far cry from the McA DiscoVision laser disc, the Capacitance Electronic Disc (Ced) by RCA, the VHS tape, the 20th anniversary letterboxed laser disc, or even the past two previous DVD incarnations (which were admittedly pretty decent), the new Blu-ray most closely approximates what it was like to see Jaws for the first time in movie theaters in the summer of 1975. Best of all, the Blu-ray cover retains artist Roger Kastel’s iconic poster art.
- 8/22/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Anyone familiar with the making of Steven Spielberg's classic film Jaws will know that there were times when the making of the movie was a nightmare for everyone on set. In hindsight, though, it was definitely worth the trouble because of the influence the film has had and the devotion shown by its many fans.
None of those fans can be more devoted that the makers of The Shark is Still Working (Tsisw). Tsisw is an independently-made documentary that oozes adoration for Jaws. Nonetheless, it manages to be nautical miles better than many making-of features Hollywood puts out as glorified advertising for its products. It was produced by uber-Jaws fans James Gelet (Grizzly Park, The Marks of a Cult: A Biblical Analysis), Jake Gove (webmaster of JAWSmovie.com), J. Michael Roddy (The Psycho Legacy), and director and Jaws prop collector Erik Hollander (Grizzly Park). The appreciation these people...
None of those fans can be more devoted that the makers of The Shark is Still Working (Tsisw). Tsisw is an independently-made documentary that oozes adoration for Jaws. Nonetheless, it manages to be nautical miles better than many making-of features Hollywood puts out as glorified advertising for its products. It was produced by uber-Jaws fans James Gelet (Grizzly Park, The Marks of a Cult: A Biblical Analysis), Jake Gove (webmaster of JAWSmovie.com), J. Michael Roddy (The Psycho Legacy), and director and Jaws prop collector Erik Hollander (Grizzly Park). The appreciation these people...
- 4/28/2009
- CinemaSpy
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