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 | $58,201,917 |
| 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 |
| 2003 | School of Rock | Saturday | $8,712,422 | $81,261,177 |
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 | $58,201,917 |
| 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 | $4,640,573 |
| 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 | $58,201,917 |
| 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 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | $29,300,465 | $94,514,402 |
| 2009 | Zombieland | $24,733,155 | $75,590,286 |
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, turned 95 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), Robert Wilson (1941, turned 83 this year), Anne Rice (1941, died on December 11, 2021 at the age of 80), Mick Jackson (1943, turned 81 this year), Kate McGregor-Stewart (1944, turned 80 this year), Michael C. Gross (1945, died on November 16, 2015 at the age of 70), Clifton Davis (1945, turned 79 this year), Susan Sarandon (1946, turned 78 this year), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949, turned 75 this year), Armand Assante (1949, turned 75 this year), Alan Rosenberg (1950, turned 74 this year), Rob Fruithof (1951, died on August 25, 2023 at the age of 71), Tcheky Karyo (1953, turned 71 this year), Christopher Fairbank (1953, turned 71 this year), Kerry Sherman (1953, turned 71 this year), Christoph Waltz (1956, turned 68 this year), Bill Fagerbakke (1957, turned 67 this year), Wendy Makkena (1958, turned 66 this year), Annabelle Lanyon (1960, turned 64 this year), Loren Lester (1960, turned 64 this year), Mike Norris (1962, turned 62 this year), Mark Powley (1963, turned 61 this year), Sarah Lancashire (1964, turned 60 this year), Leah Daniels-Butler (1965, turned 59 this year), Caroline Barclay (1966, turned 58 this year), Liev Schreiber (1967, turned 57 this year), Abraham Benrubi (1969, turned 55 this year), Jerry Minor (1969, turned 55 this year), Hoyte Van Hoytema (1971, turned 53 this year), Mark Kassen (1971, turned 53 this year), Pablo Trapero (1971, turned 53 this year), Trond Espen Seim (1971, turned 53 this year), Dennis Gansel (1973, turned 51 this year), Paco Leon (1974, turned 50 this year), Alicia Silverstone (1976, turned 48 this year), Alycia Delmore (1977, turned 47 this year), Phillip Glasser (1978, turned 46 this year), Rachael Leigh Cook (1979, turned 45 this year), Caitriona Balfe (1979, turned 45 this year), Dana Davis (1979, turned 45 this year), Nick Mohammed (1980, turned 44 this year), Vicky Krieps (1983, turned 41 this year), Laila Berzins (1983, turned 41 this year), Gerard Kearns (1984, turned 40 this year), James Landry Hebert (1984, turned 40 this year), Natalia Ryumina (1984, turned 40 this year), Cody McMains (1985, turned 39 this year), Kali Hawk (1986, turned 38 this year), Sara Forestier (1986, turned 38 this year), Michael Charles Roman (1987, turned 37 this year), Melissa Benoist (1988, turned 36 this year), Dakota Johnson (1989, turned 35 this year), Cole Hawkins (1991, turned 33 this year), Sam Earle (1993, turned 31 this year), Ella Balinska (1996, turned 28 this year), Ryan Lee (1996, turned 28 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)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.