On This Day - October 9
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Saturday | $18,154,289 | $160,891,007 |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | Saturday | $13,944,289 | $161,412,000 |
| 2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | Saturday | $13,235,067 | $213,550,366 |
| 2009 | Couples Retreat | Friday | $12,478,510 | $109,205,660 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Friday | $10,729,571 | $228,433,663 |
| 2019 | Joker | Wednesday | $9,611,712 | $335,451,311 |
| 2004 | Friday Night Lights | Saturday | $8,267,525 | $61,255,921 |
| 2018 | Venom | Tuesday | $8,228,610 | $213,511,408 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | Sunday | $7,970,377 | $85,463,309 |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Saturday | $6,332,837 | $96,962,694 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Couples Retreat | Friday | $12,478,510 | $109,205,660 |
| 2015 | Pan | Friday | $5,183,169 | $35,088,320 |
| 1998 | Holy Man | Friday | $1,540,000 | $12,069,719 |
| 2020 | The War with Grandpa | Friday | $1,102,100 | $21,277,892 |
| 2015 | Ladrones | Friday | $456,682 | $3,063,505 |
| 2009 | Good Hair | Friday | $350,434 | $4,157,223 |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Friday | $174,496 | $17,766,658 |
| 2015 | Big Stone Gap | Friday | $125,156 | $1,009,984 |
| 2009 | From Mexico with Love | Friday | $111,328 | $548,787 |
| 2020 | Yellow Rose | Friday | $46,249 | $367,849 |
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 9.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | No Time to Die | $55,225,007 | $160,891,007 |
| 2015 | The Martian | $37,005,266 | $228,433,663 |
| 2009 | Couples Retreat | $34,286,740 | $109,205,660 |
| 2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | $31,753,623 | $213,550,366 |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | $31,330,299 | $161,412,000 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | $27,319,677 | $85,463,309 |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | $24,536,265 | $75,395,035 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $20,420,392 | $169,700,110 |
| 2004 | Friday Night Lights | $20,269,025 | $61,255,921 |
| 2022 | Smile | $18,542,568 | $105,935,048 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender, Other Mommy, The Social Reckoning
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Robert Warwick (1878, died on June 6, 1964 at the age of 85), Irving Cummings (1888, died on April 18, 1959 at the age of 70), Alastair Sim (1900, died on August 19, 1976 at the age of 75), Jacques Tati (1907, died on November 5, 1982 at the age of 75), Edward Andrews (1914, died on March 8, 1985 at the age of 70), Robert Nevin (1914, turns 112 this year), Lila Kedrova (1918, died on February 16, 2000 at the age of 81), Fyvush Finkel (1922, died on August 14, 2016 at the age of 93), Philip Sterling (1922, died on November 30, 1998 at the age of 76), Gene LeBell (1932, died on August 9, 2022 at the age of 89), Brian Blessed (1936, turns 90 this year), John Pilger (1939, died on December 30, 2023 at the age of 84), John Lennon (1940, turns 86 this year), Stephen Mendillo (1942, turns 84 this year), Lorna Raver (1943, died on May 12, 2025 at the age of 81), Robert Mark Kamen (1947, turns 79 this year), Don Roy King (1947, turns 79 this year), Jackson Browne (1948, turns 78 this year), Shera Danese (1949, turns 77 this year), Robert Wuhl (1951, turns 75 this year), Sharon Osbourne (1952, turns 74 this year), Tony Shalhoub (1953, turns 73 this year), John O'Hurley (1954, turns 72 this year), Scott Bakula (1954, turns 72 this year), Michael Pare (1958, turns 68 this year), Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (1960, turns 66 this year), Sheila Kelley (1961, turns 65 this year), Rebecca Perle (1961, turns 65 this year), James Hyde (1962, turns 64 this year), Peter Hewitt (1962, turns 64 this year), Guillermo del Toro (1964, turns 62 this year), Benicio del Toro (1964, turns 62 this year), John Ralston (1964, turns 62 this year), Tim Herlihy (1966, turns 60 this year), James Dreyfus (1968, turns 58 this year), Pete Docter (1968, turns 58 this year), Steve Rodney McQueen (1969, turns 57 this year), Jason Butler Harner (1970, turns 56 this year), Steve Jablonsky (1970, turns 56 this year), Erin Daniels (1972, turns 54 this year), Michael R. Roskam (1972, turns 54 this year), Sean Lennon (1975, turns 51 this year), Nick Swardson (1976, turns 50 this year), Brandon Routh (1979, turns 47 this year), Chris O'Dowd (1979, turns 47 this year), Alex Greenwald (1979, turns 47 this year), Arnold Chon (1980, turns 46 this year), Rupert Friend (1981, turns 45 this year), Zachery Ty Bryan (1981, turns 45 this year), Tad Hilgenbrink (1981, turns 45 this year), Darius Miles (1981, turns 45 this year), Gethin Anthony (1983, turns 43 this year), Spencer Grammer (1983, turns 43 this year), Lydia Rose Bewley (1985, turns 41 this year), Sayani Gupta (1985, turns 41 this year), Stephen Gaffney (1987, died on July 27, 2022 at the age of 34), Taylor Murphy (1991, turns 35 this year), Tyler James Williams (1992, turns 34 this year), Jodelle Ferland (1994, turns 32 this year), Jacob Batalon (1996, turns 30 this year), Isabella Amara (1998, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: Miriam Hopkins (1972, at the age of 69), David Dukes (2000, at the age of 55), Jan Hooks (2014, at the age of 57), Susan Aceron (2016, at the age of 44), Andrzej Wajda (2016, at the age of 90), Jean Rochefort (2017, at the age of 87), Pat Gorman (2018, at the age of 85), John W. Corso (2019, at the age of 89), Eileen Ryan (2022, at the age of 94), Anthony Hickox (2023, at the age of 64), Damir Ibrahimovich (2025, at the age of 60)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.