On This Day - September 26
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 26.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Saturday | $20,751,428 | $169,700,110 |
2014 | The Equalizer | Friday | $12,495,441 | $101,530,738 |
2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Saturday | $11,184,070 | $124,870,275 |
2008 | Eagle Eye | Friday | $9,800,184 | $101,440,743 |
1998 | Rush Hour | Saturday | $8,936,000 | $141,186,864 |
2015 | The Intern | Saturday | $7,350,542 | $75,764,672 |
2015 | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Saturday | $6,545,738 | $81,697,192 |
2003 | The Rundown | Friday | $6,356,000 | $47,641,743 |
2009 | Surrogates | Saturday | $6,106,226 | $38,577,772 |
2015 | Everest | Saturday | $5,877,105 | $43,482,270 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 26.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | The Equalizer | Friday | $12,495,441 | $101,530,738 |
2008 | Eagle Eye | Friday | $9,800,184 | $101,440,743 |
2003 | The Rundown | Friday | $6,356,000 | $47,641,743 |
2014 | The Boxtrolls | Friday | $4,928,333 | $50,837,305 |
2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | Friday | $4,731,824 | $41,850,659 |
1997 | The Peacemaker | Friday | $3,989,408 | $41,263,140 |
1997 | Soul Food | Friday | $3,367,881 | $43,492,389 |
2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Friday | $3,030,000 | $43,601,508 |
1997 | The Edge | Friday | $2,324,319 | $27,799,255 |
2008 | Fireproof | Friday | $2,258,000 | $33,456,317 |
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 26.
Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|
2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $48,464,322 | $169,700,110 |
2014 | The Equalizer | $34,137,828 | $101,530,738 |
2008 | Eagle Eye | $29,150,721 | $101,440,743 |
2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | $25,038,803 | $124,870,275 |
1999 | Double Jeopardy | $23,162,542 | $116,735,231 |
1998 | Rush Hour | $21,202,929 | $141,186,864 |
2004 | The Forgotten | $21,022,111 | $66,711,892 |
2010 | Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps | $19,011,188 | $52,474,616 |
2003 | The Rundown | $18,533,765 | $47,641,743 |
2015 | The Intern | $17,728,313 | $75,764,672 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, Untitled Saw XI
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Edmund Gwenn (1877, died on September 6, 1959 at the age of 81), Gladys Brockwell (1894, died on July 2, 1929 at the age of 34), George Raft (1901, died on November 24, 1980 at the age of 79), Donald Cook (1901, turns 123 this year), Jack LaLanne (1914, died on January 23, 2011 at the age of 96), Patrick O'Neal (1927, died on September 9, 1994 at the age of 66), Philip Bosco (1930, died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 88), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Richard Herd (1932, died on May 26, 2020 at the age of 87), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Lou Myers (1935, turns 89 this year), Jerry Weintraub (1937, died on July 6, 2015 at the age of 77), Carl Aldana (1938, died on February 8, 2019 at the age of 80), Jonathan Goldsmith (1938, turns 86 this year), Ricky Tomlinson (1939, turns 85 this year), Michael Blodgett (1939, turns 85 this year), Martine Beswick (1941, turns 83 this year), Bryan Ferry (1945, turns 79 this year), Mary Beth Hurt (1946, turns 78 this year), Togo Igawa (1946, turns 78 this year), Olivia Newton-John (1948, died on August 8, 2022 at the age of 73), James Keane (1952, turns 72 this year), Leslie Hamilton Gearren (1956, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 63), Linda Hamilton (1956, turns 68 this year), Michael Dweck (1957, turns 67 this year), Andre Harrell (1960, died on May 7, 2020 at the age of 59), Cindy Herron (1961, turns 63 this year), Jacky Wu (1962, turns 62 this year), Chunky Pandey (1962, turns 62 this year), Patrick Bristow (1962, turns 62 this year), Lawrence Leritz (1962, turns 62 this year), Lysette Anthony (1963, turns 61 this year), Jillian Barberie (1966, turns 58 this year), Elizabeth Saunders (1966, turns 58 this year), David Millbern (1967, turns 57 this year), James Caviezel (1968, turns 56 this year), Ben Shenkman (1968, turns 56 this year), David Slade (1969, turns 55 this year), Sheri Moon Zombie (1970, turns 54 this year), Melanie Paxson (1972, turns 52 this year), Caitlin Keats (1972, turns 52 this year), Julienne Davis (1973, turns 51 this year), Maria Bonnevie (1973, turns 51 this year), Fred Raskin (1973, turns 51 this year), Chiara Schoras (1975, turns 49 this year), Jake Paltrow (1975, turns 49 this year), Jacob Tierney (1979, turns 45 this year), Susanne Wuest (1979, turns 45 this year), Mark Famiglietti (1979, turns 45 this year), Christina Milian (1981, turns 43 this year), Serena Williams (1981, turns 43 this year), Zoe Perry (1983, turns 41 this year), Manny Montana (1983, turns 41 this year), Nev Schulman (1984, turns 40 this year), Alaa Safi (1984, turns 40 this year), William Vaughan (1984, turns 40 this year), Talulah Riley (1985, turns 39 this year), Svetlana Ivanova (1985, turns 39 this year), Ashley Leggat (1986, turns 38 this year), Raquel Beaudene (1986, turns 38 this year), Lilly Singh (1988, turns 36 this year), Emma Rigby (1989, turns 35 this year), Alma Jodorowsky (1991, turns 33 this year), Charlotte Spencer (1991, turns 33 this year)
Died on this day in history: Hugh Lofting (1947, at the age of 61), Anna Magnani (1973, at the age of 65), Richard Mulligan (2000, at the age of 67), Paul Newman (2008, at the age of 83), Johnny Lewis (2012, at the age of 28), Herschell Gordon Lewis (2016, at the age of 90), Barry Dennen (2017, at the age of 79), Shoki Mokgapa (2018, at the age of 79), Myron Dewey (2021, at the age of 49), Venetia Stevenson (2022, at the age of 84), Sandra Dorsey (2023, at the age of 83)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.