On This Day - August 31
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Sunday | $7,015,565 | $333,714,112 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Saturday | $5,863,964 | $636,745,858 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Friday | $5,836,591 | $174,532,921 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | Saturday | $5,561,003 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $5,018,711 | $227,969,295 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sunday | $4,688,529 | $191,204,754 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | Saturday | $4,553,796 | $150,394,119 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Sunday | $4,514,000 | $35,623,801 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | Friday | $4,324,000 | $37,904,175 |
| 2001 | O (Othello) | Friday | $1,958,000 | $16,017,403 |
| 2007 | Death Sentence | Friday | $1,369,290 | $9,534,258 |
| 2018 | Kin | Friday | $1,056,814 | $5,718,096 |
| 2011 | The Debt | Wednesday | $970,532 | $31,177,548 |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Wednesday | $929,829 | $33,579,798 |
| 2018 | Ya Veremos | Friday | $527,474 | $4,165,949 |
| 2011 | Bodyguard | Wednesday | $192,622 | $1,834,384 |
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 31.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | $26,362,367 | $58,269,151 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $21,964,345 | $174,532,921 |
| 2012 | The Possession | $17,732,480 | $49,130,588 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,082,262 | $333,714,112 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | $13,106,108 | $37,904,175 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Richard Basehart (1914, turned 111 this year), Joan Barclay (1914, died on November 22, 2002 at the age of 88), Alan Jay Lerner (1918, died on June 14, 1986 at the age of 67), G.D. Spradlin (1920, died on July 24, 2011 at the age of 90), Buddy Hackett (1924, died on June 30, 2003 at the age of 78), Maurice Pialat (1925, died on January 11, 2003 at the age of 77), James Coburn (1928, died on November 18, 2002 at the age of 74), Charles Kay (1930, turned 95 this year), Noble Willingham (1931, died on January 17, 2004 at the age of 72), Janusz Majewski (1931, died on January 10, 2024 at the age of 92), Warren Berlinger (1937, died on December 2, 2020 at the age of 83), Jack Thompson (1940, turned 85 this year), Larry Hankin (1940, turned 85 this year), Lee Bryant (1945, turned 80 this year), Van Morrison (1945, turned 80 this year), Itzhak Perlman (1945, turned 80 this year), Mona Marshall (1947, turned 78 this year), Lowell Ganz (1948, turned 77 this year), Richard Gere (1949, turned 76 this year), Stephen McKinley Henderson (1949, turned 76 this year), Julie Brown (1954, turned 71 this year), Melissa Prophet (1956, turned 69 this year), Mark Mangini (1956, turned 69 this year), Gina Schock (1957, turned 68 this year), John Cameron (1958, turned 67 this year), Lisa Waltz (1961, turned 64 this year), Leonard L. Thomas (1961, turned 64 this year), Dee Bradley Baker (1962, turned 63 this year), Nick Reding (1962, turned 63 this year), Jeff Hochendoner (1964, turned 61 this year), Daniel Bernhardt (1965, turned 60 this year), Jaime P. Gomez (1965, turned 60 this year), Céline Bonnier (1965, turned 60 this year), Jonathan Cake (1967, turned 58 this year), Jonathan LaPaglia (1969, turned 56 this year), Jeff Russo (1969, turned 56 this year), Phina Oruche (1969, turned 56 this year), Zack Ward (1970, turned 55 this year), Debbie Gibson (1970, turned 55 this year), Chris Tucker (1971, turned 54 this year), Jason Presson (1971, turned 54 this year), Marc Webb (1974, turned 51 this year), Sara Ramirez (1975, turned 50 this year), Lucy Speed (1976, turned 49 this year), Mike Erwin (1978, turned 47 this year), Leo Bill (1980, turned 45 this year), Joe Swanberg (1981, turned 44 this year), Joshua Close (1981, turned 44 this year), Niharika Singh (1982, turned 43 this year), Chad Hartigan (1982, turned 43 this year), Ryan Kelley (1986, turned 39 this year), Brent Morin (1986, turned 39 this year), Spencer Klein (1986, turned 39 this year), Johnny Wactor (1986, died on May 25, 2024 at the age of 37), Chelsea Edmundson (1988, turned 37 this year), Holly Earl (1992, turned 33 this year)
Died on this day in history: Dennis O’Keefe (1968, at the age of 60), John Ford (1973, at the age of 79), Dodi Fayed (1997, at the age of 42), Ken Campbell (2008, at the age of 66), Sir. David Frost (2013, at the age of 74), Richard Anderson (2017, at the age of 91), Carole Shelley (2018, at the age of 79), Norm Spencer (2020, at the age of 79), Gayle Hunnicutt (2023, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.