Forrest Gump, opened to back in July 1994? $24.4M at 1,595 theaters, unadjusted for inflation. Second goes to Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot at 3,231 sites is seeing a 6th weekend ...

Series of highly improbable and extremely fortuitous events, involving Ping-Pong, Watergate, shrimp fishing and a hurricane, led to Gump’s acquiring 0.5% of Apple in its 1980 IPO; doubled his ...