LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Over four decades after terrorising beachgoers in Jaws (1975), the blockbuster movie's 7.6m shark model has been installed at the long-awaited Oscars museum in Los Angeles, it ...

Walt Conti—whose company Edge Innovations has created robot creatures for Free Willy, Deep Blue Sea and now Shark Night 3D, out Sept. 2—is used to hearing the comparisons.

Bruce the Shark, the 25-foot model used in 'Jaws,' has been officially installed at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ahead of its opening next spring.

A total of four mechanical models of the shark were made, each 25-feet long. They were designed by Joe Alves, a production designer and art director whose credits include Escape from New York, The ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The sole, surviving, full-scale model of the shark from Steven Spielberg 's 1975 film classic Jaws has been donated to The Academy Museum in Los Angeles.

The Academy Museum said in a statement that the week-long installation of the 25-foot shark was completed on Nov. 20. The model is the fourth, final and only surviving version of the shark derived ...

The Academy Museum announced today that it has accepted into its collection a major gift of the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 JAWS shark, donated by Nathan Adlen. The monumental ...

(The original, mechanical Jaws shark from the movie was named Bruce after Steven Spielberg's lawyer.) There, the 400-pound model was used as a fun photo opportunity until 1990.

The Academy announced Thursday that a full-scale model of the shark, the last surviving one from the 1975 movie, has been donated to the museum by Nathan Adlen.