On This Day - March 29

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Friday $36,807,592 $196,805,338
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens Sunday $18,282,288 $198,351,526
2014 Noah Saturday $17,603,390 $101,200,044
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation Friday $15,321,237 $122,523,060
2019 Dumbo Friday $15,254,549 $114,766,307
2015 Home Sunday $14,507,122 $177,397,510
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Tuesday $12,180,163 $330,360,194
2018 Ready Player One Thursday $11,946,275 $137,690,172
2002 Panic Room Friday $11,786,000 $95,308,367
2014 Divergent Saturday $11,549,082 $150,947,895

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Friday $36,807,592 $196,805,338
2019 Dumbo Friday $15,254,549 $114,766,307
2018 Ready Player One Thursday $11,946,275 $137,690,172
2002 Panic Room Friday $11,786,000 $95,308,367
2013 Tyler Perry’s Temptation Friday $9,405,639 $51,975,354
2002 The Rookie Friday $6,095,000 $75,600,072
2013 The Host Friday $5,337,111 $26,623,701
2002 Clockstoppers Friday $4,208,000 $36,985,501
2019 Unplanned Friday $2,972,788 $19,005,109
2002 Death to Smoochy Friday $1,694,000 $8,355,815

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 29.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire $80,006,561 $196,805,338
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens $59,321,095 $198,351,526
2015 Home $52,107,731 $177,397,510
2019 Dumbo $45,990,748 $114,766,307
2014 Noah $43,720,472 $101,200,044
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation $40,501,814 $122,523,060
2015 Get Hard $33,803,253 $90,411,453
2019 Us $33,229,640 $175,084,580
2002 Panic Room $30,056,751 $95,308,367
2013 The Croods $26,705,868 $187,168,425

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Warner Baxter (1889, died on May 7, 1951 at the age of 62), Arthur O'Connell (1908, died on May 18, 1981 at the age of 73), Dennis O’Keefe (1908, died on August 31, 1968 at the age of 60), Pearl Bailey (1918, died on August 17, 1990 at the age of 72), Eileen Heckart (1919, died on December 31, 2001 at the age of 82), Utpal Dutt (1929, died on August 19, 1993 at the age of 64), Barry Jackson (1938, turns 88 this year), Terence Hill (1939, turns 87 this year), Grazia Volpi (1941, died on February 8, 2020 at the age of 78), Scott Wilson (1942, died on October 6, 2018 at the age of 76), Eric Idle (1943, turns 83 this year), Paul Herman (1946, died on March 29, 2022 at the age of 76), Bud Cort (1948, turns 78 this year), Barry Pearl (1950, turns 76 this year), Dianne Kay (1954, turns 72 this year), Christopher Lawford (1955, died on September 5, 2018 at the age of 63), Brendan Gleeson (1955, turns 71 this year), Marina Sirtis (1955, turns 71 this year), Rolf Lassgard (1955, turns 71 this year), Christopher Lambert (1957, turns 69 this year), Victor Salva (1958, turns 68 this year), Maggie Baird (1959, turns 67 this year), Annabella Sciorra (1960, turns 66 this year), Jo Nesbo (1960, turns 66 this year), Amy Sedaris (1961, turns 65 this year), Michael Winterbottom (1961, turns 65 this year), Elle Macpherson (1964, turns 62 this year), Michel Hazanavicius (1967, turns 59 this year), Christopher Thornton (1967, turns 59 this year), Lucy Lawless (1968, turns 58 this year), Hidetoshi Nishijima (1971, turns 55 this year), Sam Hazeldine (1972, turns 54 this year), Todd Grinnell (1976, turns 50 this year), Chris D'Elia (1980, turns 46 this year), Megan Hilty (1981, turns 45 this year), Alexander Fehling (1981, turns 45 this year), Alain Moussi (1981, turns 45 this year), Ed Skrein (1983, turns 43 this year), Peter Porte (1984, turns 42 this year), Vijay Varma (1986, turns 40 this year), Josh Blaylock (1990, turns 36 this year), Hayley McFarland (1991, turns 35 this year), Chris Massoglia (1992, turns 34 this year), Joe Adler (1993, turns 33 this year), Perry Mattfeld (1994, turns 32 this year), Thaddea Graham (1997, turns 29 this year), Alex Neustaedter (1998, turns 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Bernard Blier (1989, at the age of 73), Paul Henreid (1992, at the age of 84), Bill Travers (1994, at the age of 72), Calvin Lockhart (2007, at the age of 72), Luke Askew (2012, at the age of 80), Patty Duke (2016, at the age of 69), Frank De Felitta (2016, at the age of 94), Agnès Varda (2019, at the age of 90), Shane Rimmer (2019, at the age of 89), Ayhan Ergürsel (2019, at the age of 57), Krzysztof Penderecki (2020, at the age of 86), Paul Herman (2022, at the age of 76), Richard Chamberlain (2025, at the age of 90)

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