On This Day - October 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | Saturday | $31,630,397 | $213,550,366 |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | Saturday | $21,085,643 | $161,412,000 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Friday | $18,145,681 | $228,433,663 |
| 2009 | Zombieland | Friday | $9,449,569 | $75,590,286 |
| 2004 | Ladder 49 | Saturday | $9,365,398 | $74,541,707 |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Saturday | $8,876,169 | $96,962,694 |
| 2016 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Sunday | $7,824,396 | $87,242,834 |
| 1999 | Double Jeopardy | Saturday | $7,820,000 | $116,735,231 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Friday | $7,497,650 | $169,700,110 |
| 2021 | The Addams Family 2 | Saturday | $7,073,718 | $56,489,153 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Martian | Friday | $18,145,681 | $228,433,663 |
| 2009 | Zombieland | Friday | $9,449,569 | $75,590,286 |
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come | Friday | $4,960,000 | $55,485,043 |
| 1998 | Antz | Friday | $4,205,000 | $90,757,863 |
| 2009 | Toy Story 3D Double Feature | Friday | $3,254,094 | $30,702,446 |
| 1998 | A Night at the Roxbury | Friday | $3,055,000 | $30,331,165 |
| 2009 | The Invention of Lying | Friday | $2,482,184 | $18,451,251 |
| 2009 | Whip It | Friday | $1,598,957 | $13,077,184 |
| 2025 | Kantara A Legend: Chapter 1 | Thursday | $850,000 | $850,000 |
| 2019 | War | Wednesday | $310,262 | $3,640,355 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | $90,033,210 | $213,550,366 |
| 2015 | The Martian | $54,308,575 | $228,433,663 |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | $47,604,606 | $161,412,000 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
| 2016 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | $28,871,140 | $87,242,834 |
| 2009 | Zombieland | $24,733,155 | $75,590,286 |
| 2022 | Smile | $22,609,925 | $105,935,048 |
| 2010 | The Social Network | $22,445,653 | $96,962,694 |
| 2004 | Ladder 49 | $22,088,204 | $74,541,707 |
| 2016 | Deepwater Horizon | $20,223,544 | $61,433,527 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Alejandro G. Inarritu Film, Verity
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bud Abbott (1897, died on April 24, 1974 at the age of 76), Charles Drake (1917, died on September 10, 1994 at the age of 76), Herbert Voland (1918, died on April 26, 1981 at the age of 62), George ‘Spanky’ McFarland (1928, died on June 30, 1993 at the age of 64), Robin Hardy (1929, died on July 1, 2016 at the age of 86), Moses Gunn (1929, died on December 16, 1993 at the age of 64), David Gale (1936, turned 89 this year), Sandra Seacat (1936, died on January 18, 2023 at the age of 86), Roberto Herlitzka (1937, died on July 31, 2024 at the age of 86), Rex Reed (1938, turned 87 this year), Eduardo Serra (1943, died on August 19, 2025 at the age of 81), Kevin Cooney (1945, turned 80 this year), Avery Brooks (1948, turned 77 this year), Ian McNeice (1950, turned 75 this year), Angelyne (1950, turned 75 this year), Sting (1951, turned 74 this year), Claudio Fragasso (1951, turned 74 this year), Robin Riker (1952, turned 73 this year), David Bradley (1953, turned 72 this year), Lorraine Bracco (1954, turned 71 this year), Eran Riklis (1954, turned 71 this year), Charlie Adler (1956, turned 69 this year), Kym Herrin (1957, turned 68 this year), Jeffrey Weissman (1958, turned 67 this year), Daniel Peacock (1958, turned 67 this year), Terence Winter (1960, turned 65 this year), Jeff Bennett (1962, turned 63 this year), Andrew Polk (1962, turned 63 this year), Gary Green (1964, turned 61 this year), Richard Ashton (1965, turned 60 this year), Kay Kay Menon (1966, turned 59 this year), Lew Temple (1967, turned 58 this year), Lucy Cohu (1968, turned 57 this year), Joey Slotnick (1968, turned 57 this year), Natasha Little (1969, turned 56 this year), Dragomir Mrsic (1969, turned 56 this year), Kristin Carey (1969, turned 56 this year), Maribel Verdu (1970, turned 55 this year), Kelly Ripa (1970, turned 55 this year), Catherine Kellner (1970, turned 55 this year), Tiffany (1971, turned 54 this year), Efren Ramirez (1973, turned 52 this year), Danny Smith (1973, turned 52 this year), Andrey Danilko (1973, turned 52 this year), Michelle Krusiec (1974, turned 51 this year), Brianna Brown (1979, turned 46 this year), Goran Bogdan (1980, turned 45 this year), Michele Nordin (1980, turned 45 this year), Erik Fellows (1981, turned 44 this year), J.J. Nolan (1985, turned 40 this year), Camilla Belle (1986, turned 39 this year), Filip Berg (1986, turned 39 this year), Dia Frampton (1987, turned 38 this year), Marta Gastini (1989, turned 36 this year), Samantha Barks (1990, turned 35 this year), Maria Evoli (1990, turned 35 this year), Castille Landon (1991, turned 34 this year), Tara Lynne Barr (1993, turned 32 this year), Elizabeth McLaughlin (1993, turned 32 this year), Brendan Meyer (1994, turned 31 this year), Hana Sugisaki (1997, turned 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: George Bancroft (1956, at the age of 74), Rock Hudson (1985, at the age of 59), Lee Richardson (1999, at the age of 73), Hamilton Camp (2005, at the age of 70), Frances Bergen (2006, at the age of 84), George Grizzard (2007, at the age of 79), Tom Petty (2017, at the age of 66), Paul LeBlanc (2019, at the age of 72), Edward S. Feldman (2020, at the age of 91), Sacheen Littlefeather (2022, at the age of 75), Douglas Kirkland (2022, at the age of 88), Bob Yerkes (2024, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.