On This Day - August 30
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | Friday | $8,868,530 | $28,873,374 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Sunday | $6,402,975 | $66,477,700 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Saturday | $6,220,274 | $333,714,112 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Saturday | $5,443,000 | $35,623,801 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Sunday | $5,386,278 | $120,774,594 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Saturday | $4,532,929 | $191,204,754 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Saturday | $4,200,171 | $110,515,313 |
| 2025 | Weapons | Saturday | $3,865,945 | $151,550,044 |
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | Sunday | $3,707,560 | $161,197,785 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Friday | $3,698,361 | $636,745,858 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | Friday | $8,868,530 | $28,873,374 |
| 2024 | Reagan | Friday | $2,700,040 | $29,397,140 |
| 2013 | No se Aceptan Devoluciones | Friday | $1,928,863 | $44,467,206 |
| 2002 | FearDotCom | Friday | $1,800,000 | $13,208,023 |
| 2013 | Getaway | Friday | $1,430,885 | $10,501,938 |
| 2024 | Afraid | Friday | $1,309,482 | $6,726,179 |
| 2024 | City of Dreams | Friday | $851,434 | $1,713,427 |
| 2019 | Don’t Let Go | Friday | $760,446 | $5,215,062 |
| 2024 | Sight & Sound Presents: Daniel Live | Friday | $563,687 | $2,629,933 |
| 2024 | 1992 | Friday | $461,069 | $2,906,073 |
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 30.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Final Destination | $27,408,309 | $66,477,700 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | $19,303,653 | $120,774,594 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,082,262 | $333,714,112 |
| 2009 | Halloween 2 | $16,349,565 | $33,392,973 |
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | $15,815,497 | $28,873,374 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $15,469,312 | $636,745,858 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | $15,269,324 | $35,623,801 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | $14,878,286 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | $13,440,774 | $227,969,295 |
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | $13,133,560 | $161,197,785 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Mary Shelley (1797, died on February 1, 1851 at the age of 53), Raymond Massey (1896, died on July 29, 1983 at the age of 86), John Eldredge (1904, turned 121 this year), Joan Blondell (1906, died on December 25, 1979 at the age of 73), Fred MacMurray (1908, died on November 5, 1991 at the age of 83), William Duell (1923, died on December 22, 2011 at the age of 88), Peter Brace (1924, turned 101 this year), Donald Symington (1925, died on July 24, 2013 at the age of 87), Laurent De Brunhoff (1925, died on March 22, 2024 at the age of 98), Warren Buffett (1930, turned 95 this year), Luis Bacalov (1933, died on November 15, 2017 at the age of 84), Tom Lacy (1933, turned 92 this year), Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934, died on June 11, 1982 at the age of 47), John Phillips (1935, died on March 18, 2001 at the age of 65), Elizabeth Ashley (1939, turned 86 this year), William G. Schilling (1939, died on February 28, 2019 at the age of 79), Suzanne Roquette (1942, turned 83 this year), Wolf Roth (1944, turned 81 this year), Peggy Lipton (1946, died on May 11, 2019 at the age of 72), Lewis Black (1948, turned 77 this year), Brian Yuzna (1949, turned 76 this year), Christopher Collins (1949, turned 76 this year), Timothy Bottoms (1951, turned 74 this year), Lech Majewski (1953, turned 72 this year), Robin Harris (1953, died on March 18, 1990 at the age of 36), David Paymer (1954, turned 71 this year), Ely Pouget (1960, turned 65 this year), Rick McKay (1960, died on January 29, 2018 at the age of 57), Karl T. Wright (1961, turned 64 this year), Michael Chiklis (1963, turned 62 this year), Nelson Ascencio (1964, turned 61 this year), Laeta Kalogridis (1965, turned 60 this year), Michael Michele (1966, turned 59 this year), Frederique Van Der Wal (1967, turned 58 this year), Annika Pergament (1968, turned 57 this year), Kent Osborne (1969, turned 56 this year), Lars P. Winther (1969, turned 56 this year), Dylan Kidd (1969, turned 56 this year), Cameron Diaz (1972, turned 53 this year), Michael Ohoven (1974, turned 51 this year), Sarah-Jane Potts (1976, turned 49 this year), Elden Henson (1977, turned 48 this year), Leon Lopez (1979, turned 46 this year), Marin Ireland (1979, turned 46 this year), Fletcher Sheridan (1980, turned 45 this year), Michael Kennedy (1980, turned 45 this year), Csilla Barath (1981, turned 44 this year), Tony Yo-ning Yang (1982, turned 43 this year), Emily Montague (1984, turned 41 this year), Max Hoffman (1984, turned 41 this year), Holly Weston (1985, turned 40 this year), Johanna Braddy (1987, turned 38 this year), Cameron Finley (1987, turned 38 this year), Bebe Rexha (1989, turned 36 this year), Gaia Weiss (1991, turned 34 this year), Jessica Henwick (1992, turned 33 this year), Raffey Cassidy (2002, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean Seberg (1979, at the age of 40), Vera Ellen (1981, at the age of -40), Lindsay Anderson (1994, at the age of 71), Charles Bronson (2003, at the age of 81), Glenn Ford (2006, at the age of 90), Andrew V. McLaglen (2014, at the age of 94), Brad Anderson (2015, at the age of 91), Wes Craven (2015, at the age of 76), Alan MacDonald (2017, at the age of 76), Károly Makk (2017, at the age of 91), Franco Columbu (2019, at the age of 78), Valerie Harper (2019, at the age of 80), Mikhail Gorbachev (2022, at the age of 91)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.