On This Day - March 6
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Saturday | $44,209,073 | $334,191,110 |
| 2022 | The Batman | Sunday | $34,138,236 | $369,345,583 |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Friday | $24,515,772 | $107,509,799 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Sunday | $23,927,191 | $341,268,248 |
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Saturday | $21,929,043 | $370,782,930 |
| 2020 | Onward | Friday | $12,096,726 | $61,555,145 |
| 2011 | Rango | Sunday | $11,868,857 | $123,477,607 |
| 2004 | Starsky & Hutch | Saturday | $11,675,781 | $88,200,225 |
| 2005 | The Pacifier | Sunday | $8,373,010 | $113,006,880 |
| 2004 | Hidalgo | Saturday | $8,074,900 | $67,286,731 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Watchmen | Friday | $24,515,772 | $107,509,799 |
| 2020 | Onward | Friday | $12,096,726 | $61,555,145 |
| 1998 | U.S. Marshals | Friday | $5,105,000 | $57,833,603 |
| 2015 | Chappie | Friday | $4,534,152 | $31,569,268 |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Friday | $2,698,898 | $33,078,266 |
| 2020 | The Way Back | Friday | $2,617,147 | $13,590,514 |
| 1998 | Hush | Friday | $1,965,000 | $13,587,246 |
| 2015 | Unfinished Business | Friday | $1,802,993 | $10,219,501 |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Friday | $1,670,000 | $18,718,818 |
| 1998 | Twilight | Friday | $1,665,000 | $15,055,091 |
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 6.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Batman | $134,008,624 | $369,345,583 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $116,101,023 | $334,191,110 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | $75,063,401 | $341,268,248 |
| 2009 | Watchmen | $55,214,334 | $107,509,799 |
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | $53,246,801 | $370,782,930 |
| 2020 | Onward | $39,119,861 | $61,555,145 |
| 2011 | Rango | $38,079,323 | $123,477,607 |
| 2005 | The Pacifier | $30,552,694 | $113,006,880 |
| 2004 | Starsky & Hutch | $28,103,367 | $88,200,225 |
| 2005 | Be Cool | $23,450,212 | $55,849,401 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat, Untitled Pixar Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Jay C. Flippen (1899, died on February 3, 1971 at the age of 71), Lou Costello (1906, died on March 3, 1959 at the age of 52), Bélgica Castro (1921, died on March 6, 2020 at the age of 99), Andrzej Wajda (1926, died on October 9, 2016 at the age of 90), Hal Needham (1931, died on October 25, 2013 at the age of 82), Mary Wilson (1944, died on February 8, 2021 at the age of 76), Rob Reiner (1947, turned 77 this year), Martin Kove (1947, turned 77 this year), Anna Maria Horsford (1948, turned 76 this year), Jery Hewitt (1949, died on November 21, 2020 at the age of 71), Steve Golin (1955, died on April 21, 2019 at the age of 64), Alberta Watson (1955, died on March 21, 2015 at the age of 60), James Saito (1955, turned 69 this year), Larry Cedar (1955, turned 69 this year), Denise DuBarry (1956, died on March 23, 2019 at the age of 63), Eddie Deezen (1957, turned 67 this year), Alex McArthur (1957, turned 67 this year), Tom Arnold (1959, turned 65 this year), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (1962, turned 62 this year), D.L. Hughley (1963, turned 61 this year), D.L. Hughley (1963, turned 61 this year), Sherrie Wills (1967, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 53), Connie Britton (1967, turned 57 this year), Moira Kelly (1968, turned 56 this year), Vincent Gale (1968, turned 56 this year), Amy Pietz (1969, turned 55 this year), Erica Shaffer (1970, turned 54 this year), Shane Brolly (1970, turned 54 this year), Shaquille O'Neal (1972, turned 52 this year), Shaun Evans (1980, turned 44 this year), Ellen Muth (1981, turned 43 this year), Leila Bekhti (1984, turned 40 this year), Yael Stone (1985, turned 39 this year), Eli Marienthal (1986, turned 38 this year), Joel Palmer (1986, turned 38 this year), Amy Okuda (1989, turned 35 this year), Clara Lago (1990, turned 34 this year), Elise Eberle (1993, turned 31 this year), Rosie Day (1995, turned 29 this year), Dillon Freasier (1996, turned 28 this year), Alisha Boe (1997, turned 27 this year), Dylan Schmid (1999, turned 25 this year), Jacob Bertrand (2000, turned 24 this year), Milo Manheim (2001, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: George Formby (1961, at the age of 56), William Hopper (1970, at the age of 55), Henry Wilcoxon (1984, at the age of 78), Harry Andrews (1989, at the age of 77), Melina Mercouri (1994, at the age of 73), Teresa Wright (2005, at the age of 86), Robert B. Sherman (2012, at the age of 86), Robert Osborne (2017, at the age of 84), Shammi (2018, at the age of 88), David Paul (2020, at the age of 62), Bélgica Castro (2020, at the age of 99)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.