On This Day - August 28
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Friday | $10,846,068 | $66,477,700 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Saturday | $8,532,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2021 | Candyman | Saturday | $7,947,530 | $61,186,570 |
| 2010 | Takers | Saturday | $7,749,635 | $57,744,720 |
| 2009 | Halloween 2 | Friday | $7,626,723 | $33,392,973 |
| 2010 | The Last Exorcism | Saturday | $7,050,793 | $41,034,350 |
| 2004 | Jet Li's Hero | Saturday | $6,600,000 | $53,652,140 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | Sunday | $6,498,319 | $89,217,875 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Saturday | $5,892,031 | $121,626,598 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Friday | $5,844,737 | $120,774,594 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Friday | $10,846,068 | $66,477,700 |
| 2009 | Halloween 2 | Friday | $7,626,723 | $33,392,973 |
| 2015 | War Room | Friday | $4,048,820 | $67,790,117 |
| 2020 | The New Mutants | Friday | $3,113,501 | $23,855,569 |
| 1998 | 54 | Friday | $2,325,000 | $16,757,163 |
| 1998 | Why Do Fools Fall In Love? | Friday | $1,335,000 | $12,506,676 |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | Friday | $1,187,062 | $7,460,204 |
| 2015 | We Are Your Friends | Friday | $722,323 | $3,591,417 |
| 2020 | Bill & Ted Face the Music | Friday | $452,170 | $3,439,660 |
| 2013 | Closed Circuit | Wednesday | $248,704 | $5,750,995 |
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 28.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Final Destination | $27,408,309 | $66,477,700 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | $26,411,706 | $89,217,875 |
| 2021 | Candyman | $22,001,750 | $61,186,570 |
| 2010 | Takers | $20,512,304 | $57,744,720 |
| 2010 | The Last Exorcism | $20,366,613 | $41,034,350 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $20,099,149 | $293,506,292 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | $19,303,653 | $120,774,594 |
| 2004 | Jet Li's Hero | $18,004,319 | $53,652,140 |
| 2009 | Halloween 2 | $16,349,565 | $33,392,973 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | $16,275,895 | $109,449,237 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charles Boyer (1899, died on August 26, 1978 at the age of 78), Simon Oakland (1915, died on August 29, 1983 at the age of 68), Jack Kirby (1917, died on February 6, 1994 at the age of 76), Donald O’Connor (1925, died on September 27, 2003 at the age of 78), Donald O’Connor (1925, died on September 27, 2003 at the age of 78), Ben Gazzara (1930, died on February 3, 2012 at the age of 81), Philip French (1933, died on October 27, 2015 at the age of 82), John Grissmer (1933, died on September 19, 2024 at the age of 91), Joyce Gordon (1934, died on August 13, 2008 at the age of 73), Martin West (1937, died on December 31, 2019 at the age of 82), Marla Adams (1938, died on April 25, 2024 at the age of 85), Ken Jenkins (1940, turns 85 this year), Joseph Shabalala (1941, died on February 11, 2020 at the age of 78), Tony Barry (1941, died on December 21, 2022 at the age of 81), David Soul (1943, died on January 4, 2024 at the age of 80), Robert Greenwald (1943, turns 82 this year), Debra Mooney (1947, turns 78 this year), Dee Dee Rescher (1953, turns 72 this year), Luis Guzmán (1956, turns 69 this year), Ai Weiwei (1957, turns 68 this year), Daniel Stern (1957, turns 68 this year), Rick Rossovich (1957, turns 68 this year), Brian Thompson (1959, turns 66 this year), John Allen Nelson (1959, turns 66 this year), David Fincher (1962, turns 63 this year), Menzi Ngubane (1964, died on March 13, 2021 at the age of 56), Felicia Taylor (1964, died on September 8, 2023 at the age of 59), Amanda Tapping (1965, turns 60 this year), Shania Twain (1965, turns 60 this year), Billy Boyd (1968, turns 57 this year), Jason Priestley (1969, turns 56 this year), Jack Black (1969, turns 56 this year), J. August Richards (1973, turns 52 this year), Kirby Morrow (1973, died on November 19, 2020 at the age of 47), Kristin Booth (1974, turns 51 this year), Steffiana De La Cruz (1974, turns 51 this year), Nick E. Tarabay (1975, turns 50 this year), Eugene Byrd (1975, turns 50 this year), Kelly Overton (1978, turns 47 this year), Carly Pope (1980, turns 45 this year), LeAnn Rimes (1982, turns 43 this year), Sarah Roemer (1984, turns 41 this year), Zehra Fazal (1984, turns 41 this year), James Jagger (1985, turns 40 this year), Armie Hammer (1986, turns 39 this year), Katie Findlay (1990, turns 35 this year), Jacob Davich (1990, turns 35 this year), Samuel Larsen (1991, turns 34 this year), Jonathan Whitesell (1991, turns 34 this year), Kyle Orlando Massey (1991, turns 34 this year), Emilia McCarthy (1997, turns 28 this year), Quvenzhané Wallis (2003, turns 22 this year), August Maturo (2007, turns 18 this year)
Died on this day in history: Robert Walker (1951, at the age of 32), Robert Shaw (1978, at the age of 51), John Huston (1987, at the age of 81), Adam \"DJ AM\" Goldstein (2009, at the age of 36), Gene Wilder (2016, at the age of 83), Michel Aumont (2019, at the age of 82), Chadwick Boseman (2020, at the age of 43), Ralph Eggleston (2022, at the age of 56), Roger Van Hool (2023, at the age of 82)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.