On This Day - August 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | KPop Demon Hunters | Sunday | $9,100,000 | $24,300,000 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Saturday | $8,040,579 | $636,745,858 |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Saturday | $7,788,659 | $69,030,436 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Friday | $7,020,104 | $174,532,921 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | Saturday | $6,991,645 | $116,632,095 |
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | Saturday | $6,932,419 | $105,313,091 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $6,158,166 | $227,969,295 |
| 2007 | Superbad | Friday | $5,669,636 | $121,463,226 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | Saturday | $5,583,686 | $150,394,119 |
| 2002 | xXx | Saturday | $5,486,097 | $141,930,000 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Friday | $4,397,000 | $30,059,386 |
| 2018 | The Happytime Murders | Friday | $3,933,679 | $20,706,452 |
| 2007 | War | Friday | $3,514,132 | $22,486,409 |
| 2007 | Mr. Bean’s Holiday | Friday | $3,265,170 | $33,302,167 |
| 2001 | Summer Catch | Friday | $2,819,000 | $19,693,891 |
| 2007 | The Nanny Diaries | Friday | $2,697,756 | $25,926,673 |
| 2012 | Premium Rush | Friday | $1,964,788 | $20,275,446 |
| 2001 | John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars | Friday | $1,279,500 | $8,434,601 |
| 2012 | The Apparition | Friday | $1,176,879 | $4,936,819 |
| 2018 | A.X.L. | Friday | $821,333 | $6,501,381 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $24,808,202 | $174,532,921 |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | $21,380,987 | $69,030,436 |
| 2025 | KPop Demon Hunters | $19,200,000 | $24,300,000 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $18,310,240 | $636,745,858 |
| 2007 | Superbad | $18,044,369 | $121,463,226 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,202,212 | $333,714,112 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $16,725,447 | $191,204,754 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | $16,503,812 | $116,632,095 |
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | $16,364,012 | $105,313,091 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | $16,272,195 | $110,515,313 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Preston Foster (1900, died on July 14, 1970 at the age of 69), Hal Smith (1916, died on January 28, 1994 at the age of 77), Pierre Barillet (1923, died on January 8, 2019 at the age of 95), W. Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), William Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), Kenny Baker (1934, died on August 13, 2016 at the age of 81), Lando Buzzanca (1935, died on December 18, 2022 at the age of 87), Dante Spinotti (1943, turns 83 this year), Ronee Blakley (1945, turns 81 this year), Vince McMahon (1945, turns 81 this year), Castulo Guerra (1945, turns 81 this year), Anne Archer (1947, turns 79 this year), Charles Rocket (1949, died on October 7, 2005 at the age of 56), Joe Regalbuto (1949, turns 77 this year), Diana Ossana (1949, turns 77 this year), Tony Amendola (1951, turns 75 this year), David Blaustein (1953, died on August 16, 2021 at the age of 67), Mike Huckabee (1955, turns 71 this year), Meg Gibson (1955, turns 71 this year), Kevin Dunn (1956, turns 70 this year), Stephen Fry (1957, turns 69 this year), Steve Guttenberg (1958, turns 68 this year), Rodrigo Garcia (1959, turns 67 this year), Takashi Miike (1960, turns 66 this year), Jared Harris (1961, turns 65 this year), Mark Protosevich (1961, turns 65 this year), David Koechner (1962, turns 64 this year), Craig Kilborn (1962, turns 64 this year), Harriett D. Foy (1962, turns 64 this year), Gordon Warnecke (1962, turns 64 this year), Dana Gould (1964, turns 62 this year), Marlee Matlin (1965, turns 61 this year), Eric Edwards (1966, turns 60 this year), Pierfrancesco Favino (1969, turns 57 this year), Ava Duvernay (1972, turns 54 this year), Dave Chappelle (1973, turns 53 this year), Grey Griffin (1973, turns 53 this year), Barret Oliver (1973, turns 53 this year), Carmine Giovinazzo (1973, turns 53 this year), Ele Keats (1973, turns 53 this year), James D'Arcy (1975, turns 51 this year), Bonnie Root (1975, turns 51 this year), Drew Pearce (1975, turns 51 this year), Alex O'Loughlin (1976, turns 50 this year), Meital Dohan (1976, turns 50 this year), Nicolas Roye (1977, turns 49 this year), John Green (1977, turns 49 this year), Beth Riesgraf (1978, turns 48 this year), Rachael Carpani (1980, turns 46 this year), Sonja Bennett (1980, turns 46 this year), J.D. Daniels (1980, turns 46 this year), Chad Michael Murray (1981, turns 45 this year), Antonio Campos (1983, turns 43 this year), Cameron Goodman (1984, turns 42 this year), Blake Berris (1984, turns 42 this year), Rupert Grint (1988, turns 38 this year), Elizabeth Debicki (1990, turns 36 this year), Sean Stone (1992, died on March 5, 2024 at the age of 31), Oscar Robert Wahlberg (1998, turns 28 this year), Sofia Richie (1998, turns 28 this year), Griffin Gluck (2000, turns 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Louis Prima (1978, at the age of 67), Morrie Ryskind (1985, at the age of 89), Leonard Frey (1988, at the age of 49), E.G. Marshall (1998, at the age of 84), Jane Greer (2001, at the age of 76), Satoshi Kon (2010, at the age of 46), Julie Harris (2013, at the age of 87), Richard Attenborough (2014, at the age of 90), Jay Thomas (2017, at the age of 69), Charlie Watts (2021, at the age of 80), Veronica Echegui (2025, at the age of 42)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.