On This Day - September 27
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sunday | $14,387,467 | $169,700,110 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | Saturday | $13,491,996 | $101,530,738 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Friday | $13,117,937 | $127,214,072 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Saturday | $12,378,941 | $101,440,743 |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Friday | $11,197,075 | $144,564,905 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Friday | $9,245,997 | $119,793,567 |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Sunday | $8,242,798 | $124,870,275 |
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | Saturday | $7,967,538 | $102,427,862 |
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | Saturday | $7,850,050 | $71,576,735 |
| 2003 | The Rundown | Saturday | $7,675,120 | $47,641,743 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Friday | $13,117,937 | $127,214,072 |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Friday | $11,197,075 | $144,564,905 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Friday | $9,245,997 | $119,793,567 |
| 2019 | Abominable | Friday | $5,654,440 | $60,761,390 |
| 2002 | The Tuxedo | Friday | $4,595,676 | $50,586,000 |
| 2024 | Devara Part 1 | Friday | $3,900,000 | $5,600,000 |
| 2013 | Baggage Claim | Friday | $3,297,613 | $21,569,509 |
| 2013 | Don Jon | Friday | $3,288,247 | $24,477,704 |
| 2024 | Megalopolis | Friday | $1,853,074 | $7,629,085 |
| 2019 | Judy | Friday | $900,327 | $24,319,961 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $48,464,322 | $169,700,110 |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | $35,790,150 | $144,564,905 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | $35,648,740 | $127,214,072 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | $34,137,828 | $101,530,738 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | $34,017,930 | $119,793,567 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | $29,150,721 | $101,440,743 |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | $25,038,803 | $124,870,275 |
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | $22,000,387 | $71,576,735 |
| 1998 | Rush Hour | $21,202,929 | $141,186,864 |
| 2019 | Abominable | $20,612,100 | $60,761,390 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Jim Thompson (1906, died on April 7, 1977 at the age of 70), Bernard Miles (1907, died on June 14, 1991 at the age of 83), Margery Mason (1913, died on January 26, 2014 at the age of 100), Jayne Meadows (1919, died on April 26, 2015 at the age of 95), William Conrad (1920, died on February 11, 1994 at the age of 73), Miklós Jancsó (1921, died on January 31, 2014 at the age of 92), Arthur Penn (1922, died on September 28, 2010 at the age of 88), Tony Giorgio (1923, died on February 1, 2012 at the age of 88), Yash Chopra (1932, died on October 21, 2012 at the age of 80), Greg Morris (1933, died on August 27, 1996 at the age of 62), Will Sampson (1933, died on June 3, 1987 at the age of 53), Kathleen Nolan (1933, turns 93 this year), Wilford Brimley (1934, died on August 1, 2020 at the age of 85), Claude Jarman Jr. (1934, died on January 12, 2025 at the age of 90), Jose Maria Sacristan (1937, turns 89 this year), Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938, died on May 24, 2020 at the age of 81), Garrick Hagon (1939, turns 87 this year), Roger Van Hool (1940, died on August 28, 2023 at the age of 82), Bob Spiers (1945, died on December 8, 2008 at the age of 63), Meat Loaf (1947, died on January 20, 2022 at the age of 74), Denis Lawson (1947, turns 79 this year), Liz Torres (1947, turns 79 this year), Tom Braidwood (1948, turns 78 this year), A. Martinez (1948, turns 78 this year), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950, died on December 4, 2025 at the age of 75), Ren Osugi (1951, died on February 21, 2018 at the age of 66), Jim Shooter (1951, died on June 30, 2025 at the age of 73), Shaun Cassidy (1958, turns 68 this year), Irvine Welsh (1958, turns 68 this year), Jean-Marc Barr (1960, turns 66 this year), Christopher Cousins (1960, turns 66 this year), Debi Derryberry (1960, turns 66 this year), Andy Lau (1961, turns 65 this year), David McNally (1961, turns 65 this year), Marc Maron (1963, turns 63 this year), Scott Lawrence (1963, turns 63 this year), Sofia Milos (1965, turns 61 this year), Maria Schrader (1965, turns 61 this year), Patrick Muldoon (1968, turns 58 this year), Tod Williams (1968, turns 58 this year), Anthony Rhulen (1969, died on January 15, 2021 at the age of 51), Tamara Taylor (1970, turns 56 this year), Amanda Detmer (1971, turns 55 this year), Agata Kulesza (1971, turns 55 this year), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972, turns 54 this year), Indira Varma (1973, turns 53 this year), Carrie Brownstein (1974, turns 52 this year), Brandy Burre (1974, turns 52 this year), Travis Aaron Wade (1975, turns 51 this year), Jim Klock (1975, turns 51 this year), Jeff Pope (1976, turns 50 this year), Michael C. Maronna (1977, turns 49 this year), Zita Gorog (1979, turns 47 this year), Kristopher Turner (1980, turns 46 this year), Anna Camp (1982, turns 44 this year), Lil' Wayne (1982, turns 44 this year), Ella Scott Lynch (1982, turns 44 this year), Zero Kazama (1982, turns 44 this year), Jose Maria De Tavira (1983, turns 43 this year), Avril Lavigne (1984, turns 42 this year), Grace Helbig (1985, turns 41 this year), Arielle Vandenberg (1986, turns 40 this year), Lola Kirke (1990, turns 36 this year), Andrew Hunter (1990, turns 36 this year), Thomas Mann (1991, turns 35 this year), Sam Lerner (1992, turns 34 this year), Daeg Faerch (1995, turns 31 this year), Jenna Ortega (2002, turns 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1977, at the age of 70), Robert Montgomery (1981, at the age of 77), Lloyd Nolan (1985, at the age of 83), Donald O’Connor (2003, at the age of 78), Herbert Lom (2012, at the age of 95), Phyllis Davis (2013, at the age of 73), Jay Robinson (2013, at the age of 83), Sarah Danielle Madison (2014, at the age of 40), John Guillermin (2015, at the age of 89), Hugh Hefner (2017, at the age of 91), Joseph Wilson (2019, at the age of 69), Linda Porter (2019, at the age of 86), Rob Garrison (2019, at the age of 59), Catherine Lachens (2023, at the age of 78), Maggie Smith (2024, at the age of 89), Warren Wilson (2024, at the age of 89)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.