Great White (film) shot of a shark in an aquarium and that the shark in question occasionally resembled a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon. Scenes from "Great White" were incorporated into a 1995 Italian shark movie "Cruel Jaws", which also utilized footage from "Jaws. Great White (film) Great White (a.k.a. The Last Shark; ) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari, starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow. It did well at the box office, grossing over $18 million in its first month in the United States; however, its North American release was later blocked after accusations of plagiarism of
Felix the Cat: The Movie in Poland and Bulgaria. New World Pictures picked up the film in May 1987, some time after completion, and premiered at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles in January 1989 as the opening selection of the third Los Angeles Animation Celebration. Originally slated for a Thanksgiving 1988 release, it was pushed to April 1991 and was a box office bomb, grossing $1,964,253 based on an estimated $9 million budget. "Felix the Cat: The Movie" was widely panned by critics and audiences upon its release. "Halliwell's Film Guide" called it a "laboured attempt to update the classic cartoon figure". Philip Strick