On This Day - March 28

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 28.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens Saturday $24,284,775 $198,351,526
2015 Home Saturday $21,883,869 $177,397,510
2014 Noah Friday $15,183,234 $101,200,044
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Monday $15,040,496 $330,360,194
2010 How to Train Your Dragon Sunday $14,101,190 $217,851,976
2015 Get Hard Saturday $13,116,160 $90,411,453
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation Thursday $10,506,875 $122,523,060
2017 Beauty and the Beast Tuesday $9,473,259 $504,014,165
2015 The Divergent Series: Insurgent Saturday $9,472,071 $130,179,072
2009 The Haunting in Connecticut Saturday $8,832,769 $55,389,516

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 28.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2014 Noah Friday $15,183,234 $101,200,044
2008 21 Friday $8,655,041 $81,159,365
2025 A Working Man Friday $5,614,213 $37,000,711
2025 The Chosen: Last Supper — Part 1 Friday $5,134,036 $20,257,290
2003 Head of State Friday $4,453,326 $37,788,228
2003 The Core Friday $3,976,502 $31,111,260
2003 Basic Friday $3,736,815 $26,599,248
2025 The Woman in the Yard Friday $3,669,845 $22,405,985
2008 Superhero Movie Friday $3,472,023 $26,638,520
2025 Death of a Unicorn Friday $2,272,250 $12,519,487

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 28.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens $59,321,095 $198,351,526
2015 Home $52,107,731 $177,397,510
2010 How to Train Your Dragon $43,732,319 $217,851,976
2014 Noah $43,720,472 $101,200,044
2015 Get Hard $33,803,253 $90,411,453
2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed $29,438,331 $84,185,387
2014 Divergent $25,619,578 $150,947,895
1997 Liar Liar $25,377,435 $181,410,615
2008 21 $24,105,943 $81,159,365
2009 The Haunting in Connecticut $23,004,765 $55,389,516

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Louis Wolheim (1880, died on February 18, 1931 at the age of 50), Edward Anhalt (1914, died on September 3, 2000 at the age of 86), Antony Holland (1920, died on July 29, 2015 at the age of 95), Dirk Bogarde (1921, died on May 8, 1999 at the age of 78), Alberto Grimaldi (1925, died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95), Albert S. Ruddy (1930, died on May 25, 2024 at the age of 94), Michael Parkinson (1935, died on August 16, 2023 at the age of 88), Per Holst (1939, died on August 23, 2025 at the age of 86), Alf Clausen (1941, died on May 29, 2025 at the age of 84), Mike Newell (1942, turns 84 this year), Richard Eyre (1943, turns 83 this year), Conchata Ferrell (1943, died on October 12, 2020 at the age of 77), Ken Howard (1944, died on March 23, 2016 at the age of 71), Jimmy Wang Yu (1944, died on April 5, 2022 at the age of 78), Dianne Wiest (1948, turns 78 this year), Margaret Whitton (1949, died on December 4, 2016 at the age of 67), Pete Kozachik (1951, died on September 12, 2023 at the age of 72), Vladimir Yordanoff (1954, died on October 6, 2020 at the age of 66), Reba McEntire (1955, turns 71 this year), Paul Eiding (1957, turns 69 this year), Edesio Alejandro (1958, turns 68 this year), Chris Barrie (1960, turns 66 this year), Orla Brady (1961, turns 65 this year), Alexandra Billings (1962, turns 64 this year), Max Perlich (1968, turns 58 this year), Brett Ratner (1969, turns 57 this year), Siena Goines (1969, turns 57 this year), Vince Vaughn (1970, turns 56 this year), Jennifer Weiner (1970, turns 56 this year), Nick Frost (1972, turns 54 this year), David Vadim (1972, turns 54 this year), Richard Kelly (1975, turns 51 this year), Mandy Moore (1976, turns 50 this year), Radu Jude (1977, turns 49 this year), Cho Seung-Woo (1980, turns 46 this year), Julia Stiles (1981, turns 45 this year), Dan Petronijevic (1981, turns 45 this year), Vica Kerekes (1981, turns 45 this year), Gareth David-Lloyd (1981, turns 45 this year), Lady Gaga (1986, turns 40 this year), Amaia Salamanca (1986, turns 40 this year), Jimmy Wong (1987, turns 39 this year), Laura Harrier (1990, turns 36 this year), Alexi Pappas (1990, turns 36 this year), Amy Bruckner (1991, turns 35 this year), Berta Vazquez (1992, turns 34 this year), Daisy Bevan (1992, turns 34 this year), Ryan Simpkins (1998, turns 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Richard Arlen (1976, at the age of 76), Patrick Troughton (1987, at the age of 67), Robert J. Wilke (1989, at the age of 74), Peter Ustinov (2004, at the age of 82), Maurice Jarre (2009, at the age of 84), Richard Griffiths (2013, at the age of 65), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (2014, at the age of 91), Miroslav Ondříček (2015, at the age of 80), Gene Saks (2015, at the age of 93), Igor Khait (2016, at the age of 93), James Noble (2016, at the age of 94), Darryl Warren (2018, at the age of 72), John Callahan (2020, at the age of 66), Matthew Faber (2020, at the age of 47), Marvin J. Chomsky (2022, at the age of 92), Louis Gossett Jr. (2024, at the age of 87)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.