 The outsized success of "The Godfather" in 1972 had sparked a trend toward wider releases, but even that film had debuted in just five theaters, before going wide in its second weekend.On June 20, "Jaws" opened across North America on 464 screens — 409 in the United States, the remainder in Canada.The coupling of this broad distribution pattern with the movie's then even rarer national television marketing campaign yielded a release method virtually unheard-of at the time.