While the dispute is ongoing the battle between Netflix and Paramount to control Warner —responsible for some $3.7 billion in global box office revenue in 2025, no small feat—, the film industry is preparing to recapture a post-pandemic box office that continues to struggle. In 2026, Hollywood will pull out all the stops with releases designed to attract a wide audience and revitalize the theatrical experience. There will also be, as always, films seeking artistic acclaim. And new works from directors such as Albert Serra, Greta Gerwig, Pedro Almodóvar, Christopher Nolan, and Steven Spielberg.

"Hey, this doesn't remind you of Shark?" My seatmate asks me this while we enjoy the festival of adventure, mystery and sparks of terror. Jurassic World. And yes, the aggressive, swift, mischievous, voracious, vengeful marine dinosaur contains nuances of homage to the shark imagined half a century ago by Steven Spielberg. Explicit homage? Well, it could very well be. The screenwriter of the latest installment of the Jurassic saga is David Koepp, responsible for the scripts for the first and second installments, with Spielberg, of course, imbuing each and every one of the edges and pores of the thick hide. dinosaur. Shark, One of the most important films in the history of cinema has turned fifty. It returns to theaters for a limited time on August 29th, and it's the opportunity to break the curse for anyone who has yet to experience it. And on the big screen! And on top of that, during the summer, so you can immerse yourself even more in the spirit of the film, set in the middle of the heatwave in a small coastal town bursting at the seams with bathers whose tranquility is shattered by a great white shark determined to satisfy its hunger with human flesh. There are many stimulants in this work of art, injected with myth throughout, influential to the core, eternally young.

In 1975, in Hollywood, a joke became fashionable: "What has white teeth, earns millions of dollars, devours women and is not Warren Beatty?", the answer was Jaws, Steven Spielberg's film about the killer shark that attacked bathers who were innocently swimming in the sea. This February 18th Shark 50 years ago. It's been half a century since its premiere. A film that caused a turning point in the way we consume cinema and that became an icon of popular culture.