On This Day - August 31
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Sunday | $7,015,565 | $333,714,112 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Friday | $5,836,591 | $174,532,921 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Saturday | $5,561,003 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $5,018,711 | $227,969,295 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sunday | $4,688,529 | $191,204,754 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | Saturday | $4,553,796 | $150,394,119 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Sunday | $4,514,000 | $35,623,801 |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Saturday | $4,349,033 | $69,030,436 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | Friday | $4,324,000 | $37,904,175 |
| 2001 | O (Othello) | Friday | $1,958,000 | $16,017,403 |
| 2007 | Death Sentence | Friday | $1,369,290 | $9,534,258 |
| 2018 | Kin | Friday | $1,056,814 | $5,718,096 |
| 2011 | The Debt | Wednesday | $970,532 | $31,177,548 |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Wednesday | $929,829 | $33,579,798 |
| 2018 | Ya Veremos | Friday | $527,474 | $4,165,949 |
| 2011 | Bodyguard | Wednesday | $192,622 | $1,834,384 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 31.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | $26,362,367 | $58,269,151 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $21,964,345 | $174,532,921 |
| 2012 | The Possession | $17,732,480 | $49,130,588 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,082,262 | $333,714,112 |
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | $15,815,497 | $28,873,374 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | $15,269,324 | $35,623,801 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | $14,878,286 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | $13,440,774 | $227,969,295 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | $13,106,108 | $37,904,175 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | $12,715,243 | $150,394,119 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Richard Basehart (1914, turns 110 this year), Joan Barclay (1914, died on November 22, 2002 at the age of 88), Alan Jay Lerner (1918, died on June 14, 1986 at the age of 67), G.D. Spradlin (1920, died on July 24, 2011 at the age of 90), Buddy Hackett (1924, died on June 30, 2003 at the age of 78), Maurice Pialat (1925, died on January 11, 2003 at the age of 77), James Coburn (1928, died on November 18, 2002 at the age of 74), Charles Kay (1930, turns 94 this year), Noble Willingham (1931, died on January 17, 2004 at the age of 72), Janusz Majewski (1931, died on January 10, 2024 at the age of 92), Warren Berlinger (1937, died on December 2, 2020 at the age of 83), Jack Thompson (1940, turns 84 this year), Larry Hankin (1940, turns 84 this year), Lee Bryant (1945, turns 79 this year), Van Morrison (1945, turns 79 this year), Itzhak Perlman (1945, turns 79 this year), Mona Marshall (1947, turns 77 this year), Lowell Ganz (1948, turns 76 this year), Richard Gere (1949, turns 75 this year), Stephen McKinley Henderson (1949, turns 75 this year), Julie Brown (1954, turns 70 this year), Melissa Prophet (1956, turns 68 this year), Mark Mangini (1956, turns 68 this year), Gina Schock (1957, turns 67 this year), John Cameron (1958, turns 66 this year), Lisa Waltz (1961, turns 63 this year), Leonard L. Thomas (1961, turns 63 this year), Dee Bradley Baker (1962, turns 62 this year), Nick Reding (1962, turns 62 this year), Jeff Hochendoner (1964, turns 60 this year), Daniel Bernhardt (1965, turns 59 this year), Jaime P. Gomez (1965, turns 59 this year), Céline Bonnier (1965, turns 59 this year), Jonathan Cake (1967, turns 57 this year), Jonathan LaPaglia (1969, turns 55 this year), Jeff Russo (1969, turns 55 this year), Phina Oruche (1969, turns 55 this year), Zack Ward (1970, turns 54 this year), Debbie Gibson (1970, turns 54 this year), Chris Tucker (1971, turns 53 this year), Jason Presson (1971, turns 53 this year), Marc Webb (1974, turns 50 this year), Sara Ramirez (1975, turns 49 this year), Lucy Speed (1976, turns 48 this year), Mike Erwin (1978, turns 46 this year), Leo Bill (1980, turns 44 this year), Joe Swanberg (1981, turns 43 this year), Joshua Close (1981, turns 43 this year), Niharika Singh (1982, turns 42 this year), Chad Hartigan (1982, turns 42 this year), Ryan Kelley (1986, turns 38 this year), Brent Morin (1986, turns 38 this year), Spencer Klein (1986, turns 38 this year), Chelsea Edmundson (1988, turns 36 this year), Holly Earl (1992, turns 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Dennis O’Keefe (1968, at the age of 60), John Ford (1973, at the age of 79), Dodi Fayed (1997, at the age of 42), Ken Campbell (2008, at the age of 66), Sir. David Frost (2013, at the age of 74), Richard Anderson (2017, at the age of 91), Carole Shelley (2018, at the age of 79), Norm Spencer (2020, at the age of 79), Gayle Hunnicutt (2023, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.