On This Day - October 4
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Friday | $20,257,472 | $58,300,287 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Saturday | $15,175,369 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | Saturday | $13,979,788 | $84,273,813 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Sunday | $13,911,129 | $228,433,663 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Saturday | $12,482,375 | $94,514,402 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sunday | $9,982,870 | $169,700,110 |
| 2025 | Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl | Saturday | $9,922,644 | $34,062,774 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Friday | $20,257,472 | $58,300,287 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2013 | Runner Runner | Friday | $2,786,580 | $19,316,646 |
| 2002 | Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie | Friday | $1,898,000 | $25,571,351 |
| 2013 | Pulling Strings | Friday | $758,787 | $5,842,961 |
| 2024 | White Bird | Friday | $687,007 | $5,069,171 |
| 2021 | God’s Not Dead: We the People | Monday | $387,379 | $1,170,387 |
| 2013 | Grace Unplugged | Friday | $346,973 | $2,507,159 |
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 4.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | $96,202,337 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $55,785,112 | $274,092,705 |
| 2015 | The Martian | $54,308,575 | $228,433,663 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | $37,678,467 | $58,300,287 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | $37,513,109 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | $37,134,255 | $84,273,813 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | $36,540,945 | $92,955,420 |
| 2025 | Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl | $34,062,774 | $34,062,774 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | $29,300,465 | $94,514,402 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Buster Keaton (1895, died on February 1, 1966 at the age of 70), John Larch (1914, died on October 16, 2005 at the age of 91), George Sidney (1916, died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 85), Charlton Heston (1923, died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84), Edmund Lyndeck (1925, died on December 14, 2015 at the age of 90), Scotty Beckett (1929, turns 97 this year), Erwin C. Dietrich (1930, died on March 15, 2018 at the age of 87), Stan Dragoti (1932, died on July 13, 2018 at the age of 85), Horst Janson (1935, died on January 28, 2025 at the age of 89), Robert Wilson (1941, turns 85 this year), Anne Rice (1941, died on December 11, 2021 at the age of 80), Mick Jackson (1943, turns 83 this year), Kate McGregor-Stewart (1944, turns 82 this year), Michael C. Gross (1945, died on November 16, 2015 at the age of 70), Clifton Davis (1945, turns 81 this year), Susan Sarandon (1946, turns 80 this year), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949, turns 77 this year), Armand Assante (1949, turns 77 this year), Alan Rosenberg (1950, turns 76 this year), Rob Fruithof (1951, died on August 25, 2023 at the age of 71), Tcheky Karyo (1953, died on October 31, 2025 at the age of 72), Christopher Fairbank (1953, turns 73 this year), Kerry Sherman (1953, turns 73 this year), Christoph Waltz (1956, turns 70 this year), Bill Fagerbakke (1957, turns 69 this year), Wendy Makkena (1958, turns 68 this year), Annabelle Lanyon (1960, turns 66 this year), Loren Lester (1960, turns 66 this year), Mike Norris (1962, turns 64 this year), Mark Powley (1963, turns 63 this year), Sarah Lancashire (1964, turns 62 this year), Leah Daniels-Butler (1965, turns 61 this year), Caroline Barclay (1966, turns 60 this year), Liev Schreiber (1967, turns 59 this year), Abraham Benrubi (1969, turns 57 this year), Jerry Minor (1969, turns 57 this year), Hoyte Van Hoytema (1971, turns 55 this year), Mark Kassen (1971, turns 55 this year), Pablo Trapero (1971, turns 55 this year), Trond Espen Seim (1971, turns 55 this year), Dennis Gansel (1973, turns 53 this year), Paco Leon (1974, turns 52 this year), Alicia Silverstone (1976, turns 50 this year), Alycia Delmore (1977, turns 49 this year), Phillip Glasser (1978, turns 48 this year), Rachael Leigh Cook (1979, turns 47 this year), Caitriona Balfe (1979, turns 47 this year), Dana Davis (1979, turns 47 this year), Nick Mohammed (1980, turns 46 this year), Vicky Krieps (1983, turns 43 this year), Laila Berzins (1983, turns 43 this year), Gerard Kearns (1984, turns 42 this year), James Landry Hebert (1984, turns 42 this year), Natalia Ryumina (1984, turns 42 this year), Cody McMains (1985, turns 41 this year), Kali Hawk (1986, turns 40 this year), Sara Forestier (1986, turns 40 this year), Michael Charles Roman (1987, turns 39 this year), Melissa Benoist (1988, turns 38 this year), Dakota Johnson (1989, turns 37 this year), Cole Hawkins (1991, turns 35 this year), Sam Earle (1993, turns 33 this year), Ella Balinska (1996, turns 30 this year), Ryan Lee (1996, turns 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: Graham Chapman (1989, at the age of 48), Tom Bell (2006, at the age of 73), William Tepper (2017, at the age of 73), Audrey Wells (2018, at the age of 58), Will Vinton (2018, at the age of 70), Diahann Carroll (2019, at the age of 84), Clark Middleton (2020, at the age of 62), Shawna Trpcic (2023, at the age of 57), Michel Blanc (2024, at the age of 72), Xavier Durringer (2025, at the age of 61)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.