What was once considered the best time of the year to go out and play, have fun and be recreational all changed when Steven Spielberg released his second movie back in the summer of 1975. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, that took a back seat when the director introduced the first summer blockbuster Hollywood hit "Jaws."

The film was rated PG, but the terror was insurmountable. The gigantic shark that at one point in the movie was seen to be as long as the ship that was out at sea to hunt it, terrorized audiences across the nation and went on to gross $260 million dollars in it's first and only run at theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.

Worldwide, the film brought in over $470 million. Those numbers at that time was nearly unheard of and that was the year the summer blockbuster was unveiled. Nowadays, we see movies like "Avengers" and "Furious 7" debuting around the same date with just that in mind, to get a huge box-office return.

Even movies like "Star Wars" and "E.T." took the summer dates and prospered. But their big numbers came from multiple releases, whereas "Jaws" has only had one run in theaters

According to The Hollywood Reporter though, that's about to change -- albeit for a limited time.

The movie will get a limited release in select theaters around the country on the dates June 21 and June 24, in celebration of its 40th anniversary. These screenings will also feature an introduction from Ben Mankiewicz from TCM Weekend Daytime. The screenings are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. local time for each theater.

The film stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"). The three are the ones who set out to sea to kill the man-eating great white shark that had been terrorizing the beach of Amity by killing a teenager and a child in the film. The shock factor often centered on what you couldn't see under the water, as opposed to what you did see later in the movie.