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, turns 84 this year), Austin Stoker (1943, died on October 7, 2022 at the age of 79), Michael Wallis (1945, turns 81 this year), Jill Larson (1947, turns 79 this year), John Mellencamp (1951, turns 75 this year), Mary Badham (1952, turns 74 this year), Mark Radcliffe (1952, turns 74 this year), James Van Patten (1956, turns 70 this year), Screaming Mad George (1956, turns 70 this year), Michael W. Smith (1957, turns 69 this year), Joey Marquez (1957, turns 69 this year), Marcus Lamb (1957, died on November 30, 2021 at the age of 64), Frank Deal (1958, turns 68 this year), Dylan Baker (1959, turns 67 this year), Simon Cowell (1959, turns 67 this year), Gary Scott Thompson (1959, turns 67 this year), Wendy Vanden Heuvel (1959, turns 67 this year), Warrington Gillette (1960, turns 66 this year), David Born (1960, turns 66 this year), Lynette Walden (1961, turns 65 this year), Jacqueline Antaramian (1962, turns 64 this year), Tammy Klein (1963, turns 63 this year), Marco Beltrami (1966, turns 60 this year), Toni Braxton (1967, turns 59 this year), Andrew Dominik (1967, turns 59 this year), Thom Yorke (1968, turns 58 this year), Nicole Ari Parker (1970, turns 56 this year), Sabrina Grdevich (1970, turns 56 this year), James Whitaker (1970, turns 56 this year), Ben Younger (1972, turns 54 this year), Sharad Kelkar (1972, turns 54 this year), Jessy Terrero (1972, turns 54 this year), Christine Conradt (1973, turns 53 this year), Numan Acar (1974, turns 52 this year), Alexander Polinsky (1974, turns 52 this year), Tim Minchin (1975, turns 51 this year), Jamie Hector (1975, turns 51 this year), Yeniffer Behrens (1976, turns 50 this year), Omar Benson Miller (1978, turns 48 this year), Tony Way (1978, turns 48 this year), Shao feng Feng (1978, turns 48 this year), Shawn Ashmore (1979, turns 47 this year), Aaron Ashmore (1979, turns 47 this year), Wei Tang (1979, turns 47 this year), Edison Chen (1980, turns 46 this year), Matt Dellapina (1980, turns 46 this year), Jake McLaughlin (1982, turns 44 this year), Giuseppe Sulfaro (1984, turns 42 this year), Hannah Fidell (1985, turns 41 this year), Bree Olson (1986, turns 40 this year), Holland Roden (1986, turns 40 this year), Connor Christie (1997, turns 29 this year), Lulu Wilson (2005, turns 21 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.