On July 6, 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opened in theaters. A
huge box-office success, the film starred Tom Hanks in the title
role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with a low I.Q. who winds
up at the center of key cultural and historical events of the
second half of the 20th century.

The film also won an Oscar for its then-cutting-edge computer-
generated imagery (CGI) special effects, which incorporated
Forrest Gump into existing news footage with famous world
figures including John F. Kennedy, John Lennon and Richard
Nixon.

Tom Hanks will be 69 years old on July 9th.

On April 10, 1953, the horror film The House of Wax, starring
Vincent Price, opened at New York’s Paramount Theater.

Released by Warner Brothers, it was the first movie from a
major motion-picture studio to be shot using the three-
dimensional, or stereoscopic, film process and one of the
first horror films to be shot in color.

Directed by Andre De Toth, The House of Wax was a remake
of 1933’s Mystery in the Wax Museum.     
    
    
    
    
   

On March 31, 1999, the writing and directing sibling team of
Lana and Lilly Wachowski release their second film, the mind-
blowing science-fiction blockbuster The Matrix.

Later films include Cloud Atlas (2012) and Jupiter Ascending
(2015). A sequel to The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix
Resurrections, was released in 2021.         
        
        
        
        
        
        
Lilly and Lana Wachowsk.

On this day in 1950, Cinderella made a bibbidi, bobbidi de-boo
in theaters. In the ads to market the film, Cinderella promised
to “Put a smile in your heart… and laughter in your dreams.”

You’ll take it to your heart, not only because it’s the greatest
love story ever told — though that’s reason enough if you’ve
ever been in love. But because it’s so full of the wonderful fun,
hilarious characters, singable songs — the sheer enchantment
that comes only from Disneyland.”

In one of Hollywood’s zaniest movie premiere stunts, Mel Brooks’
1974 western spoof Blazing Saddles screens at the Pickwick Drive-
In Theater in Burbank, California. Guests attend not in cars—but
on horseback.

Mel Brooks will be 99 years old on the 28th of June.