On This Day - August 20
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Saturday | $8,646,691 | $325,100,054 |
| 2011 | The Help | Saturday | $8,099,476 | $169,705,587 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | Saturday | $7,994,450 | $109,449,237 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Friday | $7,163,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Friday | $7,022,128 | $41,814,863 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Saturday | $6,728,834 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | Sunday | $6,510,380 | $72,541,501 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Sunday | $6,293,418 | $636,238,421 |
| 2005 | Red Eye | Saturday | $6,000,000 | $57,891,803 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Saturday | $5,859,038 | $97,670,358 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Friday | $7,022,128 | $41,814,863 |
| 2004 | Without a Paddle | Friday | $4,800,000 | $58,156,435 |
| 2021 | PAW Patrol: The Movie | Friday | $4,523,426 | $40,127,371 |
| 2010 | Lottery Ticket | Friday | $3,860,890 | $24,719,879 |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | Friday | $3,600,707 | $25,003,155 |
| 1999 | Mickey Blue Eyes | Friday | $3,135,000 | $33,864,342 |
| 2010 | The Switch | Friday | $2,701,800 | $27,758,465 |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Friday | $2,672,640 | $29,197,642 |
| 1999 | Universal Soldier II: The Return | Friday | $1,550,000 | $10,447,421 |
| 1999 | Teaching Mrs. Tingle | Friday | $1,235,000 | $8,959,883 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | $25,030,225 | $72,541,501 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $23,950,008 | $293,506,292 |
| 1995 | Mortal Kombat | $23,283,887 | $70,433,227 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | $21,422,815 | $109,449,237 |
| 2017 | The Hitman’s Bodyguard | $21,384,504 | $75,468,583 |
| 2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) | $21,124,049 | $32,132,374 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $21,030,328 | $636,238,421 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $20,855,401 | $325,100,054 |
| 2011 | The Help | $20,018,659 | $169,705,587 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | $18,504,022 | $121,626,598 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: H.P. Lovecraft (1890, died on March 15, 1937 at the age of 46), Alan Reed (1907, died on June 14, 1977 at the age of 69), André Morell (1909, turned 115 this year), Bernard Archard (1916, died on May 1, 2008 at the age of 91), Walter Bernstein (1919, died on January 22, 2021 at the age of 101), Buddy Van Horn (1928, died on May 11, 2021 at the age of 92), Miriam Colon (1936, died on March 3, 2017 at the age of 80), Andrey Konchalovskiy (1937, turned 87 this year), Isaac Hayes (1942, died on August 10, 2008 at the age of 65), Sylvester McCoy (1943, turned 81 this year), Ray Wise (1947, turned 77 this year), John Noble (1948, turned 76 this year), Robert Plant (1948, turned 76 this year), Patrick Kilpatrick (1949, turned 75 this year), Max Alexander (1953, died on November 2, 2016 at the age of 63), Peter Horton (1953, turned 71 this year), Theresa Saldana (1954, died on June 6, 2016 at the age of 61), Al Roker (1954, turned 70 this year), Jay Acovone (1955, turned 69 this year), Joan Allen (1956, turned 68 this year), David O. Russell (1958, turned 66 this year), Patricia Rozema (1958, turned 66 this year), Linda Manz (1961, died on August 14, 2020 at the age of 58), James Marsters (1962, turned 62 this year), Geoffrey Blake (1962, turned 62 this year), Ravil Isyanov (1962, died on September 30, 2021 at the age of 59), Justina Vail (1963, turned 61 this year), Markus Flanagan (1964, turned 60 this year), Colin Cunningham (1966, turned 58 this year), Mark Borchardt (1966, turned 58 this year), Paolo Genovese (1966, turned 58 this year), Miranda de Pencier (1968, turned 56 this year), Billy Gardell (1969, turned 55 this year), Fred Durst (1970, turned 54 this year), Adrian Bower (1970, turned 54 this year), Ke Huy Quan (1971, turned 53 this year), David Williams (1971, turned 53 this year), Chaney Kley (1972, turned 52 this year), Drew Waters (1973, turned 51 this year), Bill Watterson (1973, turned 51 this year), Amy Adams (1974, turned 50 this year), Misha Collins (1974, turned 50 this year), Randeep Hooda (1976, turned 48 this year), Noah Bean (1978, turned 46 this year), Mike Faiola (1978, turned 46 this year), Benjamin Barnes (1981, turned 43 this year), Michael Rady (1981, turned 43 this year), Ali Liebert (1981, turned 43 this year), Matthew Risch (1981, turned 43 this year), Meghan Ory (1982, turned 42 this year), Jamil Walker Smith (1982, turned 42 this year), Neil Chisholm (1982, died on June 18, 2023 at the age of 40), Andrew Garfield (1983, turned 41 this year), Amrita Puri (1983, turned 41 this year), Brant Daugherty (1985, turned 39 this year), Nikki Soohoo (1988, turned 36 this year), Win Morisaki (1990, turned 34 this year), Demi Lovato (1992, turned 32 this year), Liana Liberato (1995, turned 29 this year), Fatima Ptacek (2000, turned 24 this year), Billy Jenkins (2007, turned 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: Eddy Waller (1977, at the age of 88), Kim Stanley (2001, at the age of 76), Phyllis Diller (2012, at the age of 95), Elmore Leonard (2013, at the age of 90), Ted Post (2013, at the age of 95), Jerry Lewis (2017, at the age of 91), Gordon Williams (2017, at the age of 83), Craig Zadan (2018, at the age of 69), Brian Murray (2018, at the age of 80), Leon Vitali (2022, at the age of 74), John Clegg (2024, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.