On This Day - March 29

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Friday $36,807,592 $196,350,016
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens Sunday $18,282,288 $198,351,526
2014 Noah Saturday $17,603,390 $101,200,044
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation Friday $15,321,237 $122,523,060
2019 Dumbo Friday $15,254,549 $114,766,307
2015 Home Sunday $14,507,122 $177,397,510
2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Tuesday $12,180,163 $330,360,194
2018 Ready Player One Thursday $11,946,275 $137,690,172
2002 Panic Room Friday $11,786,000 $95,308,367
2014 Divergent Saturday $11,549,082 $150,947,895

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Friday $36,807,592 $196,350,016
2019 Dumbo Friday $15,254,549 $114,766,307
2018 Ready Player One Thursday $11,946,275 $137,690,172
2002 Panic Room Friday $11,786,000 $95,308,367
2013 Tyler Perry’s Temptation Friday $9,405,639 $51,975,354
2002 The Rookie Friday $6,095,000 $75,600,072
2013 The Host Friday $5,337,111 $26,623,701
2002 Clockstoppers Friday $4,208,000 $36,985,501
2019 Unplanned Friday $2,972,788 $19,005,109
2002 Death to Smoochy Friday $1,694,000 $8,355,815

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 29.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2024 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire $80,006,561 $196,350,016
2009 Monsters vs. Aliens $59,321,095 $198,351,526
2015 Home $52,107,731 $177,397,510
2019 Dumbo $45,990,748 $114,766,307
2014 Noah $43,720,472 $101,200,044
2013 G.I. Joe: Retaliation $40,501,814 $122,523,060
2015 Get Hard $33,803,253 $90,411,453
2019 Us $33,229,640 $175,084,580
2002 Panic Room $30,056,751 $95,308,367
2013 The Croods $26,705,868 $187,168,425

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Warner Baxter (1889, died on May 7, 1951 at the age of 62), Arthur O'Connell (1908, died on May 18, 1981 at the age of 73), Dennis O’Keefe (1908, died on August 31, 1968 at the age of 60), Pearl Bailey (1918, died on August 17, 1990 at the age of 72), Eileen Heckart (1919, died on December 31, 2001 at the age of 82), Utpal Dutt (1929, died on August 19, 1993 at the age of 64), Barry Jackson (1938, turned 86 this year), Terence Hill (1939, turned 85 this year), Grazia Volpi (1941, died on February 8, 2020 at the age of 78), Scott Wilson (1942, died on October 6, 2018 at the age of 76), Eric Idle (1943, turned 81 this year), Paul Herman (1946, died on March 29, 2022 at the age of 76), Bud Cort (1948, turned 76 this year), Barry Pearl (1950, turned 74 this year), Dianne Kay (1954, turned 70 this year), Christopher Lawford (1955, died on September 5, 2018 at the age of 63), Brendan Gleeson (1955, turned 69 this year), Marina Sirtis (1955, turned 69 this year), Rolf Lassgard (1955, turned 69 this year), Christopher Lambert (1957, turned 67 this year), Victor Salva (1958, turned 66 this year), Maggie Baird (1959, turned 65 this year), Annabella Sciorra (1960, turned 64 this year), Jo Nesbo (1960, turned 64 this year), Amy Sedaris (1961, turned 63 this year), Michael Winterbottom (1961, turned 63 this year), Elle Macpherson (1964, turned 60 this year), Michel Hazanavicius (1967, turned 57 this year), Christopher Thornton (1967, turned 57 this year), Lucy Lawless (1968, turned 56 this year), Hidetoshi Nishijima (1971, turned 53 this year), Sam Hazeldine (1972, turned 52 this year), Todd Grinnell (1976, turned 48 this year), Chris D'Elia (1980, turned 44 this year), Megan Hilty (1981, turned 43 this year), Alexander Fehling (1981, turned 43 this year), Alain Moussi (1981, turned 43 this year), Ed Skrein (1983, turned 41 this year), Peter Porte (1984, turned 40 this year), Vijay Varma (1986, turned 38 this year), Josh Blaylock (1990, turned 34 this year), Hayley McFarland (1991, turned 33 this year), Chris Massoglia (1992, turned 32 this year), Joe Adler (1993, turned 31 this year), Perry Mattfeld (1994, turned 30 this year), Alex Neustaedter (1998, turned 26 this year)

Died on this day in history: Bernard Blier (1989, at the age of 73), Paul Henreid (1992, at the age of 84), Bill Travers (1994, at the age of 72), Calvin Lockhart (2007, at the age of 72), Luke Askew (2012, at the age of 80), Patty Duke (2016, at the age of 69), Frank De Felitta (2016, at the age of 94), Agnès Varda (2019, at the age of 90), Shane Rimmer (2019, at the age of 89), Ayhan Ergürsel (2019, at the age of 57), Krzysztof Penderecki (2020, at the age of 86), Paul Herman (2022, at the age of 76)

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