On This Day - February 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 21.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2009 | Madea Goes To Jail | Saturday | $16,618,089 | $90,508,336 |
2016 | Deadpool | Sunday | $15,960,385 | $363,070,709 |
2018 | Black Panther | Wednesday | $14,688,057 | $700,059,566 |
2010 | Shutter Island | Sunday | $10,703,887 | $128,012,934 |
1998 | Titanic | Saturday | $9,925,539 | $674,460,013 |
2004 | 50 First Dates | Saturday | $9,110,326 | $120,776,832 |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | Saturday | $8,991,100 | $166,167,230 |
2020 | The Call of the Wild | Friday | $8,049,028 | $62,342,368 |
2015 | Kingsman: The Secret Service | Saturday | $7,985,031 | $128,261,724 |
2022 | Uncharted | Monday | $7,305,676 | $148,648,820 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 21.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | The Call of the Wild | Friday | $8,049,028 | $62,342,368 |
2003 | Old School | Friday | $6,182,500 | $75,155,000 |
2025 | The Monkey | Friday | $5,895,940 | $39,724,912 |
2014 | 3 Days to Kill | Friday | $4,034,208 | $30,697,999 |
2014 | Pompeii | Friday | $3,367,131 | $23,169,033 |
2003 | The Life of David Gale | Friday | $2,367,500 | $19,694,635 |
2020 | Brahms: The Boy II | Friday | $2,210,191 | $12,611,536 |
2003 | Gods and Generals | Friday | $1,478,000 | $12,882,934 |
2003 | Dark Blue | Friday | $1,233,000 | $9,237,470 |
2020 | Impractical Jokers: The Movie | Friday | $950,007 | $10,466,091 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 21.
Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|
2016 | Deadpool | $56,470,167 | $363,070,709 |
2010 | Shutter Island | $41,062,440 | $128,012,934 |
2009 | Madea Goes To Jail | $41,030,947 | $90,508,336 |
2014 | The Lego Movie | $31,305,359 | $258,364,131 |
2025 | Captain America: Brave New World | $28,170,093 | $200,500,001 |
2020 | Sonic The Hedgehog | $26,192,294 | $146,066,470 |
2020 | The Call of the Wild | $24,791,624 | $62,342,368 |
2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | $22,259,030 | $166,167,230 |
1997 | Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back | $21,975,993 | $291,738,960 |
1998 | Titanic | $21,036,343 | $674,460,013 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Sacha Guitry (1885, died on July 24, 1957 at the age of 72), Zachary Scott (1914, died on October 3, 1965 at the age of 51), Ann Sheridan (1915, died on January 21, 1967 at the age of 51), Lucille Bremer (1917, died on April 16, 1996 at the age of 79), Sam Peckinpah (1925, died on December 28, 1984 at the age of 59), Bob Rafelson (1933, died on July 23, 2022 at the age of 89), Rue McClanahan (1934, died on June 3, 2010 at the age of 76), Gary Lockwood (1937, turned 88 this year), Margarethe Von Trotta (1942, turned 83 this year), David Geffen (1943, turned 82 this year), Kitty Winn (1943, turned 82 this year), Alan Rickman (1946, died on January 14, 2016 at the age of 69), Anthony Daniels (1946, turned 79 this year), Tyne Daly (1946, turned 79 this year), Larry Drake (1949, died on March 17, 2016 at the age of 67), Mimi Kuzyk (1952, turned 73 this year), William L. Petersen (1953, turned 72 this year), Christine Ebersole (1953, turned 72 this year), Kelsey Grammer (1955, turned 70 this year), Kim Coates (1958, turned 67 this year), Denise Dowse (1958, turned 67 this year), Christopher Atkins (1961, turned 64 this year), Martha Hackett (1961, turned 64 this year), William Baldwin (1963, turned 62 this year), Scott Kelly (1964, turned 61 this year), Stacy Title (1964, died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 56), Adrian Schiller (1964, died on April 3, 2024 at the age of 60), Patrick Gallagher (1968, turned 57 this year), Aunjanue Ellis (1969, turned 56 this year), Michael McIntyre (1976, turned 49 this year), Kumail Nanjiani (1978, turned 47 this year), Nicole Parker (1978, turned 47 this year), Jordan Peele (1979, turned 46 this year), Jennifer Love Hewitt (1979, turned 46 this year), Tituss Burgess (1979, turned 46 this year), Justin Roiland (1980, turned 45 this year), Mélanie Laurent (1983, turned 42 this year), Charlotte Church (1986, turned 39 this year), Elliot Page (1987, turned 38 this year), Tuppence Middleton (1987, turned 38 this year), Ashley Greene (1987, turned 38 this year), Ella-Rae Smith (1988, turned 37 this year), Scout Taylor-Compton (1989, turned 36 this year), Corbin Bleu (1989, turned 36 this year), Joe Alwyn (1991, turned 34 this year), Rose Reynolds (1991, turned 34 this year), Hayley Orrantia (1994, turned 31 this year), Sophie Turner (1996, turned 29 this year), Isabella Acres (2001, turned 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jacques Becker (1960, at the age of 53), John Thaw (2002, at the age of 60), Emma Chambers (2018, at the age of 53), Ren Osugi (2018, at the age of 66), Sue Casey (2019, at the age of 92), Antonia Rey (2019, at the age of 92), Rajkumar Barjatya (2019, at the age of 92), Ewen MacIntosh (2024, at the age of 50), Micheline Presle (2024, at the age of 101), Lynne Marie Stewart (2025, at the age of 78), Voletta Wallace (2025, at the age of 78)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.