On This Day - October 7
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Venom | Sunday | $21,380,299 | $213,511,408 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | Sunday | $12,321,133 | $215,288,866 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | Sunday | $12,214,296 | $139,854,287 |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | Saturday | $11,819,000 | $166,225,040 |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Saturday | $11,301,357 | $92,054,159 |
| 2006 | The Departed | Saturday | $10,743,556 | $132,384,315 |
| 2019 | Joker | Monday | $9,702,049 | $335,451,311 |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Friday | $9,261,655 | $75,395,035 |
| 2023 | The Exorcist: Believer | Saturday | $9,034,495 | $65,537,395 |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Sunday | $8,771,278 | $148,313,048 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Friday | $9,261,655 | $75,395,035 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | Friday | $8,533,690 | $85,463,309 |
| 2022 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Friday | $3,630,915 | $46,888,441 |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | Friday | $3,426,434 | $40,962,534 |
| 2005 | In Her Shoes | Friday | $3,011,843 | $32,880,591 |
| 2005 | 2 For the Money | Friday | $2,917,020 | $22,991,379 |
| 2022 | Amsterdam | Friday | $2,642,736 | $14,947,969 |
| 2016 | The Birth of a Nation | Friday | $2,619,859 | $15,861,566 |
| 2005 | The Gospel | Friday | $2,596,454 | $15,778,152 |
| 2005 | Waiting... | Friday | $2,145,611 | $16,124,543 |
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 7.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Venom | $80,255,756 | $213,511,408 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | $49,514,769 | $139,854,287 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | $42,908,051 | $215,288,866 |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | $32,753,122 | $92,054,159 |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | $28,623,300 | $166,225,040 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | $27,319,677 | $85,463,309 |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | $27,053,395 | $148,313,048 |
| 2006 | The Departed | $26,887,467 | $132,384,315 |
| 2023 | The Exorcist: Believer | $26,497,600 | $65,537,395 |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | $24,536,265 | $75,395,035 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Andy Devine (1905, died on February 18, 1977 at the age of 71), June Allyson (1917, died on July 8, 2006 at the age of 88), Helmut Dantine (1917, died on May 2, 1982 at the age of 64), Tony Beckley (1927, died on April 19, 1980 at the age of 52), Graeme Ferguson (1929, died on May 8, 2021 at the age of 91), Desmond Tutu (1931, died on December 26, 2021 at the age of 90), Paul Vachon (1937, died on February 29, 2024 at the age of 86), Joy Behar (1942, turned 82 this year), Austin Stoker (1943, died on October 7, 2022 at the age of 79), Michael Wallis (1945, turned 79 this year), Jill Larson (1947, turned 77 this year), John Mellencamp (1951, turned 73 this year), Mary Badham (1952, turned 72 this year), Mark Radcliffe (1952, turned 72 this year), James Van Patten (1956, turned 68 this year), Screaming Mad George (1956, turned 68 this year), Michael W. Smith (1957, turned 67 this year), Joey Marquez (1957, turned 67 this year), Marcus Lamb (1957, died on November 30, 2021 at the age of 64), Frank Deal (1958, turned 66 this year), Dylan Baker (1959, turned 65 this year), Simon Cowell (1959, turned 65 this year), Gary Scott Thompson (1959, turned 65 this year), Wendy Vanden Heuvel (1959, turned 65 this year), Warrington Gillette (1960, turned 64 this year), David Born (1960, turned 64 this year), Lynette Walden (1961, turned 63 this year), Jacqueline Antaramian (1962, turned 62 this year), Tammy Klein (1963, turned 61 this year), Marco Beltrami (1966, turned 58 this year), Toni Braxton (1967, turned 57 this year), Andrew Dominik (1967, turned 57 this year), Thom Yorke (1968, turned 56 this year), Nicole Ari Parker (1970, turned 54 this year), Sabrina Grdevich (1970, turned 54 this year), James Whitaker (1970, turned 54 this year), Ben Younger (1972, turned 52 this year), Sharad Kelkar (1972, turned 52 this year), Jessy Terrero (1972, turned 52 this year), Christine Conradt (1973, turned 51 this year), Numan Acar (1974, turned 50 this year), Alexander Polinsky (1974, turned 50 this year), Tim Minchin (1975, turned 49 this year), Jamie Hector (1975, turned 49 this year), Yeniffer Behrens (1976, turned 48 this year), Omar Benson Miller (1978, turned 46 this year), Tony Way (1978, turned 46 this year), Shao feng Feng (1978, turned 46 this year), Shawn Ashmore (1979, turned 45 this year), Aaron Ashmore (1979, turned 45 this year), Wei Tang (1979, turned 45 this year), Edison Chen (1980, turned 44 this year), Matt Dellapina (1980, turned 44 this year), Jake McLaughlin (1982, turned 42 this year), Giuseppe Sulfaro (1984, turned 40 this year), Hannah Fidell (1985, turned 39 this year), Bree Olson (1986, turned 38 this year), Holland Roden (1986, turned 38 this year), Connor Christie (1997, turned 27 this year), Lulu Wilson (2005, turned 19 this year)
Died on this day in history: Mario Lanza (1959, at the age of 38), Gustaf Gründgens (1963, at the age of 63), Agnes de Mille (1993, at the age of 88), Cyril Cusack (1993, at the age of 82), Charles Rocket (2005, at the age of 56), Patrice Chéreau (2013, at the age of 68), Peggy McCay (2018, at the age of 90), Austin Stoker (2022, at the age of 79), Terence Davies (2023, at the age of 77), Cissy Houston (2024, at the age of 91), Nicholas Pryor (2024, at the age of 89)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.