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Universal Studios’ Jaws Ride Closes Down, but You Can Experience It With This Simulated YouTube Tour

Universal Studios’ Jaws ride may be closed and gone forever, but a well-shot, simulated tour of the entire experience — including the walk through the midway leading up to the ride — forever lives on thanks to InsideTheMagic’s YouTube account. The video tour, and nostalgia, after the break.

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J.J. Abrams May Helm Spielberg-Inspired Film

Right now, you could argue that we’re in a new age in filmic storytelling, and that science fiction has been brought into the limelight in way that it hasn’t enjoyed in years. One of the people who brought that shift toward mainstream is J.J. Abrams. A director who took on Star Trek in 2009, effectively retconned it, and made it a good movie with widespread appeal.

Well, it looks like Abrams might be up to something new and with a little help. Sources are telling New York Magazine’s Vulture blog that Abrams is currently working on a project that will, in some way, shape, or form, involve a certain Steven Spielberg and pay homage to his early work.

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When Titanic Beat Star Wars, Lucas Bought Cameron this Ad

In 1998, Titanic topped Star Wars as the #1 box office movie of all time. In congratulations, George Lucas bought this full-page ad in Variety, in which the Star Wars crew jumps out of the sinking ship and into the ocean of second place. (Here’s the fully-sized ad.)

Apparently, it is a Hollywood tradition for directors who have their #1 records smashed to take out full page ads congratulating the new record-holders. The good people of Reddit have dug up two more such ads:

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