On This Day - January 31
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | American Sniper | Saturday | $16,510,536 | $350,126,372 |
| 2016 | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Sunday | $12,672,117 | $143,528,619 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Saturday | $11,963,977 | $674,460,013 |
| 2009 | Taken | Saturday | $11,655,053 | $145,000,989 |
| 2010 | Avatar | Sunday | $10,056,722 | $785,221,649 |
| 2004 | You Got Served | Saturday | $7,512,820 | $40,066,497 |
| 2009 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | Saturday | $7,259,165 | $146,336,178 |
| 2003 | Final Destination 2 | Friday | $5,700,000 | $46,896,664 |
| 2003 | The Recruit | Friday | $5,328,802 | $52,784,696 |
| 2020 | Bad Boys For Life | Friday | $5,185,357 | $204,417,855 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Final Destination 2 | Friday | $5,700,000 | $46,896,664 |
| 2003 | The Recruit | Friday | $5,328,802 | $52,784,696 |
| 2014 | That Awkward Moment | Friday | $3,952,358 | $26,068,955 |
| 2003 | Biker Boyz | Friday | $3,511,485 | $21,908,034 |
| 2020 | Gretel & Hansel | Friday | $2,344,557 | $15,347,654 |
| 2014 | Labor Day | Friday | $1,921,070 | $13,371,528 |
| 2020 | The Rhythm Section | Friday | $1,151,793 | $5,437,971 |
| 2020 | The Assistant | Friday | $32,501 | $1,100,310 |
| 2014 | At Middleton | Friday | $11,780 | $53,837 |
| 2020 | Incitement | Friday | $6,458 | $140,306 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 31.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Kung Fu Panda 3 | $41,282,042 | $143,528,619 |
| 1997 | Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope | $35,906,661 | $460,998,007 |
| 2010 | Avatar | $31,280,029 | $785,221,649 |
| 2015 | American Sniper | $30,660,528 | $350,126,372 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $25,907,172 | $674,460,013 |
| 2009 | Taken | $24,717,037 | $145,000,989 |
| 2020 | Bad Boys For Life | $17,682,959 | $204,417,855 |
| 2010 | Edge of Darkness | $17,214,384 | $43,313,890 |
| 2003 | The Recruit | $16,302,063 | $52,784,696 |
| 2004 | You Got Served | $16,123,105 | $40,066,497 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Mickey 17, Dog Man, Screamboat
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Percy Helton (1894, died on September 11, 1971 at the age of 77), Tallulah Bankhead (1902, died on December 12, 1968 at the age of 66), Carol Channing (1921, died on January 15, 2019 at the age of 97), John Agar (1921, died on April 7, 2002 at the age of 81), Mario Lanza (1921, died on October 7, 1959 at the age of 38), Joanne Dru (1922, died on September 10, 1996 at the age of 74), Lorraine Warren (1927, died on April 18, 2019 at the age of 92), Jean Speegle Howard (1927, turned 97 this year), Jean Simmons (1929, died on January 22, 2010 at the age of 80), Linda Porter (1933, died on September 27, 2019 at the age of 86), James Franciscus (1934, died on July 8, 1991 at the age of 57), Philippe Laudenbach (1936, died on April 23, 2024 at the age of 88), Suzanne Pleshette (1937, died on January 19, 2008 at the age of 70), Stuart Margolin (1940, died on December 12, 2022 at the age of 82), Jessica Walter (1941, died on March 24, 2021 at the age of 80), Daniela Bianchi (1942, turned 82 this year), Derek Jarman (1942, died on February 19, 1994 at the age of 52), Peter McRobbie (1943, turned 81 this year), Connie Booth (1944, turned 80 this year), Glynn Turman (1947, turned 77 this year), Jonathan Banks (1947, turned 77 this year), John Kerr (1950, died on July 18, 2016 at the age of 66), Cristine Rose (1951, turned 73 this year), Onyeka Onwenu (1952, died on July 30, 2024 at the age of 72), Vera Glagoleva (1956, died on August 16, 2017 at the age of 61), Kelly Lynch (1959, turned 65 this year), Anthony LaPaglia (1959, turned 65 this year), Amelia Bullmore (1964, turned 60 this year), Dexter Fletcher (1966, turned 58 this year), Matt King (1968, turned 56 this year), Danielle Burgio (1968, turned 56 this year), Daniel Moder (1969, turned 55 this year), Minnie Driver (1970, turned 54 this year), Patricia Velasquez (1971, turned 53 this year), Portia de Rossi (1973, turned 51 this year), Matthew Faber (1973, died on March 28, 2020 at the age of 47), Anna Silk (1974, turned 50 this year), Preity Zinta (1975, turned 49 this year), Paul Scheer (1976, turned 48 this year), Kerry Washington (1977, turned 47 this year), Bobby Moynihan (1977, turned 47 this year), Kevin Christy (1977, turned 47 this year), Emmett J. Scanlan (1979, turned 45 this year), James Adomian (1980, turned 44 this year), April Hernandez Castillo (1980, turned 44 this year), Justin Timberlake (1981, turned 43 this year), Jon Gabrus (1982, turned 42 this year), James Sutton (1983, turned 41 this year), Belçim Bilgin (1983, turned 41 this year), Megan Ellison (1986, turned 38 this year), Marcus Mumford (1987, turned 37 this year), Amy Jackson (1992, turned 32 this year), Joel Courtney (1996, turned 28 this year), Ana Golja (1996, turned 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: A.A. Milne (1956, at the age of 74), Moira Shearer (2006, at the age of 80), Christopher Jones (2014, at the age of 72), Lizabeth Scott (2015, at the age of 92), Frank Pellegrino (2017, at the age of 72), Rob Stewart (2017, at the age of 37), Alf Humphreys (2018, at the age of 64), Harold Bradley (2019, at the age of 93), Roberto Pérez Toledo (2022, at the age of 43), Carleton Carpenter (2022, at the age of 95), Flemming Quist Møller (2022, at the age of 79), Ivan Ivanov (2024, at the age of 72)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.