The new Steve Jobs movie had the biggest opening weekend of the year

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by Sindy Cator on October 12, 2015 at 12:52 pm

Steve Jobs, the somewhat controversial movie about the Apple co-founder has racked up $521,000 over the weekend as it was released early to a number of theaters. That ranks the movie as the 15th highest pre-theater release in history, but the highest of 2015 so far, and is a good sign of what’s to come when it opens globally later this month. Universal has been rolling the movie out to a select number of theaters in stages as a way to generate anticipation, which seems to be working. It hasn’t been this smooth all along though; Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell…