On This Day - February 17

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 17.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther Saturday $65,995,366 $700,059,566
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Friday $46,431,851 $214,506,909
2007 Ghost Rider Saturday $17,338,380 $115,802,596
2001 Hannibal Saturday $14,000,000 $165,092,266
2014 The Lego Movie Monday $12,632,036 $257,784,718
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog Monday $11,983,726 $146,066,470
2024 Bob Marley: One Love Saturday $11,685,730 $96,893,170
2019 Alita: Battle Angel Sunday $9,300,205 $85,838,210
2007 Bridge to Terabithia Saturday $9,035,948 $82,234,139
2016 Deadpool Wednesday $8,617,589 $363,070,709

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 17.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Friday $46,431,851 $214,506,909
2012 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Friday $6,934,834 $51,774,002
2006 Date Movie Friday $6,839,360 $48,548,426
2017 The Great Wall Friday $5,884,250 $45,157,105
2012 This Means War Friday $5,583,770 $54,760,791
2006 Eight Below Friday $5,093,211 $81,612,565
2017 Fist Fight Friday $3,806,379 $32,187,017
2006 Freedomland Friday $1,813,104 $12,512,886
2012 Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ) Friday $1,692,721 $19,192,510
2017 A Cure for Wellness Friday $1,521,458 $8,106,986

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 17.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther $202,003,951 $700,059,566
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania $106,109,650 $214,506,909
2007 Ghost Rider $45,388,836 $115,802,596
2001 Hannibal $33,501,505 $165,092,266
2017 The Lego Batman Movie $32,655,114 $175,750,384
2024 Bob Marley: One Love $28,659,004 $96,893,170
2019 Alita: Battle Angel $28,525,613 $85,838,210
2008 Jumper $27,354,808 $80,172,128
2013 A Good Day to Die Hard $24,834,845 $67,349,198
2013 Identity Thief $23,674,295 $134,506,920

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Mary Brian (1906, died on December 30, 2002 at the age of 96), Marc Lawrence (1910, died on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95), Arthur Kennedy (1914, died on January 5, 1990 at the age of 75), Wayne Morris (1914, died on September 14, 1959 at the age of 45), Raf Vallone (1916, died on October 31, 2002 at the age of 86), Kathleen Freeman (1919, died on August 23, 2001 at the age of 82), Hal Holbrook (1925, died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95), Jeremy Slate (1926, died on November 19, 2006 at the age of 80), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929, turned 95 this year), Barry Humphries (1934, died on April 22, 2023 at the age of 89), Alan Bates (1934, died on December 27, 2003 at the age of 69), Christina Pickles (1935, turned 89 this year), Jim Brown (1936, turned 88 this year), Benjamin Whitrow (1937, died on September 28, 2017 at the age of 80), Mary Ann Mobley (1937, died on December 9, 2014 at the age of 77), Jo Kendall (1938, died on January 29, 2022 at the age of 83), James Laurenson (1940, turned 84 this year), Julia McKenzie (1941, turned 83 this year), Brenda Fricker (1945, turned 79 this year), Garry Chalk (1952, turned 72 this year), Becky Ann Baker (1953, turned 71 this year), Rene Russo (1954, turned 70 this year), Lars Brygmann (1957, turned 67 this year), Carole Davis (1958, turned 66 this year), Dave Courtney (1959, died on October 22, 2023 at the age of 64), Tuesday Knight (1961, turned 63 this year), Lou Diamond Phillips (1962, turned 62 this year), Michael Jordan (1963, turned 61 this year), Larry the Cable Guy (1963, turned 61 this year), Michael Bay (1965, turned 59 this year), Dominic Purcell (1970, turned 54 this year), Denise Richards (1971, turned 53 this year), Lisa McCune (1971, turned 53 this year), Billie Joe Armstrong (1972, turned 52 this year), Taylor Hawkins (1972, died on March 25, 2022 at the age of 50), Jerry O'Connell (1974, turned 50 this year), Kelly Carlson (1976, turned 48 this year), Isaac Kappy (1977, died on May 13, 2019 at the age of 42), Erin Cardillo (1977, turned 47 this year), Rory Kinnear (1978, turned 46 this year), Ashton Holmes (1978, turned 46 this year), Jackson Hurst (1979, turned 45 this year), Jason Ritter (1980, turned 44 this year), Paris Hilton (1981, turned 43 this year), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981, turned 43 this year), Brooke D’Orsay (1982, turned 42 this year), Chord Overstreet (1989, turned 35 this year), Bonnie Wright (1991, turned 33 this year), Ed Sheeran (1991, turned 33 this year), Meaghan Martin (1992, turned 32 this year), Sasha Pieterse (1996, turned 28 this year), Cameron Seely (2007, turned 17 this year)

Died on this day in history: Jean Servais (1976, at the age of 65), Lee Strasberg (1982, at the age of 80), Paul Stewart (1986, at the age of 77), Shirley Stoler (1999, at the age of 69), Daniel O’Herlihy (2005, at the age of 85), Kathryn Grayson (2010, at the age of 88), Richard Briers (2013, at the age of 79), Ray West (2016, at the age of 90), Andrzej Żuławski (2016, at the age of 75), Börge Hellström (2017, at the age of 59), Kim Ji-young (2017, at the age of 78), Leah Adler (2017, at the age of 97), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Charles Portis (2020, at the age of 86), Henry Gray (2020, at the age of 95), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Stella Stevens (2023, at the age of 84), Gerald Fried (2023, at the age of 95), Shahnawaz Pradhan (2023, at the age of 56), George T. Miller (2023, at the age of 79), Suhani Bhatnagar (2024, at the age of 19)

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