On This Day - October 26
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Saw IV | Friday | $14,755,978 | $63,300,095 |
| 2013 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | Saturday | $11,514,488 | $102,003,019 |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | Sunday | $10,714,000 | $110,000,082 |
| 2018 | Halloween | Friday | $9,895,460 | $159,366,015 |
| 2008 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Sunday | $9,763,880 | $90,559,416 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Saturday | $9,019,135 | $274,092,705 |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Saturday | $8,270,749 | $113,929,605 |
| 2019 | Joker | Saturday | $8,186,141 | $335,451,311 |
| 2002 | Jackass: The Movie | Saturday | $7,810,579 | $64,282,312 |
| 2002 | The Ring | Saturday | $7,770,175 | $129,094,024 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Saw IV | Friday | $14,755,978 | $63,300,095 |
| 2001 | K-PAX | Friday | $5,540,000 | $50,315,140 |
| 2001 | Thirteen Ghosts | Friday | $5,380,000 | $41,867,960 |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life | Friday | $4,167,102 | $47,642,963 |
| 2012 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D | Friday | $3,570,011 | $17,530,219 |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Friday | $3,402,211 | $27,108,272 |
| 2018 | Hunter Killer | Friday | $2,559,110 | $15,767,460 |
| 2012 | Fun Size | Friday | $1,335,788 | $9,409,538 |
| 2012 | Chasing Mavericks | Friday | $827,050 | $6,002,756 |
| 2018 | Indivisible | Friday | $609,905 | $3,511,417 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 26.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | $48,113,770 | $110,000,082 |
| 2008 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | $42,030,184 | $90,559,416 |
| 2013 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | $32,055,177 | $102,003,019 |
| 2007 | Saw IV | $31,756,764 | $63,300,095 |
| 2018 | Halloween | $31,419,070 | $159,366,015 |
| 2008 | Saw V | $30,053,954 | $56,746,769 |
| 2002 | Jackass: The Movie | $22,763,437 | $64,282,312 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $20,135,387 | $274,092,705 |
| 2014 | Ouija | $19,875,995 | $50,856,010 |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | $19,369,877 | $113,929,605 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Rudolf Lettinger (1865, died on March 21, 1937 at the age of 71), Don Siegel (1912, died on April 20, 1991 at the age of 78), Jackie Coogan (1914, died on March 1, 1984 at the age of 69), Sun Yueh (1930, died on May 1, 2018 at the age of 87), Mike Gray (1935, died on April 30, 2013 at the age of 77), Barry Malkin (1938, died on April 4, 2019 at the age of 80), Bob Hoskins (1942, died on April 29, 2014 at the age of 71), Chelcie Ross (1942, turns 82 this year), Jaclyn Smith (1945, turns 79 this year), Jaclyn Smith (1945, turns 79 this year), Holly Woodlawn (1946, died on December 6, 2015 at the age of 69), Pat Sajak (1946, turns 78 this year), Julian Schnabel (1951, turns 73 this year), Rondi Reed (1952, turns 72 this year), Roger Allam (1953, turns 71 this year), Lauren Tewes (1953, turns 71 this year), Maureen Teefy (1953, turns 71 this year), D.W. Moffett (1954, turns 70 this year), James Pickens, Jr. (1954, turns 70 this year), Rita Wilson (1956, turns 68 this year), Julie Dawn Cole (1957, turns 67 this year), Brian Bovell (1959, turns 65 this year), Francois Chau (1959, turns 65 this year), Patrick Breen (1960, turns 64 this year), Dylan McDermott (1961, turns 63 this year), Cary Elwes (1962, turns 62 this year), Ted Demme (1963, died on January 13, 2002 at the age of 38), Tom Cavanagh (1964, turns 60 this year), Kelly Rowan (1965, turns 59 this year), Steve Valentine (1966, turns 58 this year), Jane Hajduk (1966, turns 58 this year), Keith Urban (1967, turns 57 this year), Robert Maillet (1969, turns 55 this year), Lisa Ryder (1970, turns 54 this year), Dian Bachar (1970, turns 54 this year), Anthony Rapp (1971, turns 53 this year), Rosemarie DeWitt (1971, turns 53 this year), Rupert Wyatt (1972, turns 52 this year), Seth MacFarlane (1973, turns 51 this year), Raveena Tandon (1974, turns 50 this year), Florence Kasumba (1976, turns 48 this year), Hal Ozsan (1976, turns 48 this year), Jon Heder (1977, turns 47 this year), Wynn Everett (1978, turns 46 this year), C.M. Punk (1978, turns 46 this year), Jonathan Chase (1979, turns 45 this year), Khalid Abdalla (1980, turns 44 this year), Mahesh Jadu (1982, turns 42 this year), Tom Brittney (1990, turns 34 this year), Allie DeBerry (1994, turns 30 this year), Morgan Saylor (1994, turns 30 this year), Alexandria Deberry (1994, turns 30 this year), Samantha Isler (1998, turns 26 this year), Ellery Sprayberry (2000, turns 24 this year), Julian Dennison (2002, turns 22 this year), McKenna Roberts (2007, turns 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: Hattie McDaniel (1952, at the age of 59), Louise Beavers (1962, at the age of 60), Bernard L. Kowalski (2007, at the age of 78), Mac Ahlberg (2012, at the age of 81), Sam Sarpong (2015, at the age of 81), Simon Fitzmaurice (2017, at the age of 81), Robert Evans (2019, at the age of 89), Mort Sahl (2021, at the age of 94), Richard Moll (2023, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.