On This Day - February 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | Saturday | $47,553,478 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Sunday | $15,356,250 | $160,799,505 |
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Saturday | $9,034,728 | $115,802,596 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Friday | $8,329,121 | $214,504,909 |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Saturday | $7,280,000 | $165,092,266 |
| 2018 | Game Night | Saturday | $6,977,434 | $69,179,066 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Jesus Revolution | Friday | $6,965,536 | $52,102,987 |
| 2012 | Tyler Perry's Good Deeds | Friday | $5,312,688 | $35,025,791 |
| 2012 | Wanderlust | Friday | $2,172,165 | $17,288,155 |
| 2012 | Gone | Friday | $1,662,955 | $11,682,205 |
| 2006 | Running Scared | Friday | $1,000,000 | $6,855,137 |
| 2017 | Rock Dog | Friday | $899,598 | $9,420,546 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | $111,658,835 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | $55,022,245 | $160,799,505 |
| 2017 | Get Out | $33,377,060 | $175,837,935 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $31,964,803 | $214,504,909 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | $30,030,661 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | $24,476,632 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | $23,260,790 | $64,670,240 |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | $22,874,936 | $72,266,306 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | $20,067,443 | $115,802,596 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | $19,208,097 | $175,750,384 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Marjorie Main (1890, died on April 10, 1975 at the age of 85), Richard Thorpe (1896, died on May 1, 1991 at the age of 95), Abe Vigoda (1921, died on January 26, 2016 at the age of 94), Steven Hill (1922, died on August 23, 2016 at the age of 94), Emmanuelle Riva (1927, died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 89), Dominic Chianese Sr. (1931, turns 95 today), John Vernon (1932, died on February 1, 2005 at the age of 72), Michel Legrand (1932, died on January 26, 2019 at the age of 86), James Farentino (1938, died on January 24, 2012 at the age of 73), Marisa Mell (1939, turns 87 today), Paul Jones (1942, turns 84 today), Jenny O Hara (1942, turns 84 today), Pablo Milanes (1943, died on November 22, 2022 at the age of 79), Barry Bostwick (1945, turns 81 today), Mike Hodge (1947, died on September 9, 2017 at the age of 70), Edward James Olmos (1947, turns 79 today), Dennis Waterman (1948, died on May 8, 2022 at the age of 74), Helen Shaver (1951, turns 75 today), Debra Jo Rupp (1951, turns 75 today), Steve Jobs (1955, died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56), Alessandro D'Alatri (1955, died on May 3, 2023 at the age of 68), Howard Bragman (1956, died on February 11, 2023 at the age of 66), Mark Moses (1958, turns 68 today), Beth Broderick (1959, turns 67 today), Emilio Rivera (1961, turns 65 today), Kasi Lemmons (1961, turns 65 today), Todd Field (1964, turns 62 today), Bas Rutten (1965, turns 61 today), Billy Zane (1966, turns 60 today), Ben Miller (1966, turns 60 today), Karina Logue (1966, turns 60 today), Martha Kelly (1968, turns 58 today), Jonathan Ward (1970, turns 56 today), Gillian Flynn (1971, turns 55 today), James Bachman (1972, turns 54 today), Bonnie Somerville (1974, turns 52 today), Kirill Karo (1975, turns 51 today), Kate Mulvany (1977, turns 49 today), Nicole Lyn (1978, turns 48 today), Wilson Bethel (1984, turns 42 today), Jessica-Jane Stafford (1985, turns 41 today), Bryce Papenbrook (1986, turns 40 today), Benny Safdie (1986, turns 40 today), Tina Desai (1987, turns 39 today), Alexander Koch (1988, turns 38 today), Daniel Kaluuya (1989, turns 37 today), O'Shea Jackson, Jr. (1991, turns 35 today), Laurie Kynaston (1994, turns 32 today), Ramona Marquez (2001, turns 25 today), Matthew Broome (2001, turns 25 today)
Died on this day in history: Conrad Nagel (1970, at the age of 72), Henny Youngman (1998, at the age of 91), Alberto Sordi (2003, at the age of 82), John Randolph (2004, at the age of 88), Dennis Weaver (2006, at the age of 81), Don Knotts (2006, at the age of 81), Bruce Bennett (2007, at the age of 100), Harold Ramis (2014, at the age of 69), Bud Luckey (2018, at the age of 83), Sridevi (2018, at the age of 54), Paul Blackwell (2019, at the age of 64), Ronald Pickup (2021, at the age of 80), Alan Robert Murray (2021, at the age of 65), Sally Kellerman (2022, at the age of 84), Gordon Pinsent (2023, at the age of 92), Juraj Jakubisko (2023, at the age of 84), Kenneth Mitchell (2024, at the age of 49), Roberta Flack (2025, at the age of 88), Al Trautwig (2025, at the age of 68)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.