On This Day - September 8

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 8.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2017 It Friday $50,425,786 $328,828,874
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Sunday $27,383,287 $294,100,435
2019 It: Chapter Two Sunday $20,391,269 $211,593,228
2018 The Nun Saturday $19,788,796 $117,450,119
2023 The Nun II Friday $13,107,493 $86,270,590
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Saturday $5,852,228 $174,532,921
2025 The Conjuring: Last Rites Monday $5,748,553 $177,752,454
2007 3:10 to Yuma Saturday $5,639,120 $53,606,916
2018 Peppermint Saturday $5,222,525 $35,418,723
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Wednesday $4,614,556 $224,543,292

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 8.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2017 It Friday $50,425,786 $328,828,874
2023 The Nun II Friday $13,107,493 $86,270,590
2023 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Friday $3,706,845 $28,496,030
2006 The Covenant Friday $3,126,704 $23,364,784
2017 Home Again Friday $3,079,203 $27,020,284
2000 The Watcher Friday $2,794,000 $28,946,615
2000 Nurse Betty Friday $2,101,000 $25,170,054
2006 Hollywoodland Friday $1,900,000 $14,426,251
2006 Tom yum goong Friday $1,814,669 $12,044,087
2000 The Way of the Gun Friday $684,000 $6,047,856

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 8.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2017 It $123,403,419 $328,828,874
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $111,003,345 $294,100,435
2019 It: Chapter Two $91,062,152 $211,593,228
2018 The Nun $53,807,379 $117,450,119
2023 The Nun II $32,603,336 $86,270,590
2013 Riddick $19,030,375 $42,025,135
2007 3:10 to Yuma $14,035,033 $53,606,916
2018 Peppermint $13,423,255 $35,418,723
2018 Crazy Rich Asians $13,148,404 $174,532,921
2023 The Equalizer 3 $12,002,957 $92,373,751

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Queenie Smith (1898, died on August 5, 1978 at the age of 79), Henry Wilcoxon (1905, died on March 6, 1984 at the age of 78), Alexander Mackendrick (1912, died on December 22, 1993 at the age of 81), Hillary Brooke (1914, died on May 25, 1999 at the age of 84), Harry Secombe (1921, died on April 11, 2001 at the age of 79), Sid Caesar (1922, died on February 12, 2014 at the age of 91), Peter Sellers (1925, died on July 24, 1980 at the age of 54), Mario Adorf (1930, turned 95 this year), Cüneyt Faruk Arkın (1937, turned 88 this year), Louis Mahoney (1938, died on June 30, 2020 at the age of 81), Willard Huyck (1945, turned 80 this year), Aleksander Fabisiak (1945, died on February 9, 2024 at the age of 78), David R. Ellis (1952, died on September 8, 2013 at the age of 61), Pascal Greggory (1953, turned 72 this year), John McGlynn (1953, turned 72 this year), Julian Richings (1955, turned 70 this year), Ric Reitz (1955, turned 70 this year), Heather Thomas (1957, turned 68 this year), Seth Barrish (1959, turned 66 this year), Aimee Mann (1960, turned 65 this year), Amy Stiller (1961, turned 64 this year), David Knell (1961, turned 64 this year), Gina Belafonte (1961, turned 64 this year), Thomas Kretschmann (1962, turned 63 this year), Brad Silberling (1963, turned 62 this year), David Lee Smith (1963, turned 62 this year), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963, turned 62 this year), Mitchell Whitfield (1964, turned 61 this year), Kimberly Peirce (1967, turned 58 this year), Brian Huskey (1968, turned 57 this year), Rachel Hunter (1969, turned 56 this year), Lightfield Lewis (1970, turned 55 this year), David Arquette (1971, turned 54 this year), Martin Freeman (1971, turned 54 this year), Vladimir Epifantsev (1971, turned 54 this year), Brooke Burke (1971, turned 54 this year), Tomokazu Seki (1972, turned 53 this year), Larenz Tate (1975, turned 50 this year), C. Robert Cargill (1975, turned 50 this year), Julie Le Breton (1975, turned 50 this year), Nate Corddry (1977, turned 48 this year), Pink (1979, turned 46 this year), Jennifer Lafleur (1979, turned 46 this year), Miles Jupp (1979, turned 46 this year), Tehmina Sunny (1980, turned 45 this year), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (1981, turned 44 this year), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (1981, turned 44 this year), Sameera Reddy (1982, turned 43 this year), Kristina Ellery (1985, turned 40 this year), Philip Ettinger (1985, turned 40 this year), Jake Sandvig (1986, turned 39 this year), Wiz Khalifa (1987, turned 38 this year), Ray Fisher (1987, turned 38 this year), Hannah Fierman (1987, turned 38 this year), E.J. Bonilla (1988, turned 37 this year), Ashlynn Ross (1989, turned 36 this year), Mark Poletti (1989, turned 36 this year), Esmeralda Pimentel (1989, turned 36 this year), Ella Rae Peck (1990, turned 35 this year), Dianne Doan (1990, turned 35 this year), Christina Wolfe (1990, turned 35 this year), Travis Nelson (1990, turned 35 this year), Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (1990, turned 35 this year), Park So-dam (1991, turned 34 this year), Pepi Sonuga (1993, turned 32 this year), Lily Sullivan (1993, turned 32 this year), Matthew Josten (1997, turned 28 this year), Emma Laird (1998, turned 27 this year), Gaten Matarazzo (2002, turned 23 this year), Reem Shaikh (2002, turned 23 this year), Nicolas Cantu (2003, turned 22 this year)

Died on this day in history: Zero Mostel (1977, at the age of 62), Helen Shaw (1997, at the age of 100), Frank Thomas (2004, at the age of 92), Ray Barrett (2009, at the age of 82), Leigh Hamilton (2012, at the age of 62), David R. Ellis (2013, at the age of 61), The Lady Chablis (2016, at the age of 59), Blake Heron (2017, at the age of 35), John Wesley (2019, at the age of 72), Ronald Harwood (2020, at the age of 85), Aleksandr Melnik (2021, at the age of 63), Franco Graziosi (2021, at the age of 92), Queen Elizabeth II (2022, at the age of 96), Felicia Taylor (2023, at the age of 59)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.