On This Day - August 24

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 24.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine Saturday $8,040,579 $631,645,158
2019 Angel Has Fallen Saturday $7,788,659 $69,030,436
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Friday $7,020,104 $174,532,921
2013 Lee Daniels' The Butler Saturday $6,991,645 $116,632,095
2024 Alien: Romulus Saturday $6,932,419 $104,728,383
2002 Signs Saturday $6,158,166 $227,969,295
2007 Superbad Friday $5,669,636 $121,463,226
2013 We’re the Millers Saturday $5,583,686 $150,394,119
2002 xXx Saturday $5,486,097 $141,930,000
2008 Tropic Thunder Sunday $4,950,454 $110,515,313

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 24.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2001 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Friday $4,397,000 $30,059,386
2018 The Happytime Murders Friday $3,933,679 $20,706,452
2007 War Friday $3,514,132 $22,486,409
2007 Mr. Bean’s Holiday Friday $3,265,170 $33,302,167
2001 Summer Catch Friday $2,819,000 $19,693,891
2007 The Nanny Diaries Friday $2,697,756 $25,926,673
2012 Premium Rush Friday $1,964,788 $20,275,446
2001 John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Friday $1,279,500 $8,434,601
2012 The Apparition Friday $1,176,879 $4,936,819
2018 A.X.L. Friday $821,333 $6,501,381

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 24.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Crazy Rich Asians $24,808,202 $174,532,921
2019 Angel Has Fallen $21,380,987 $69,030,436
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine $18,310,240 $631,645,158
2007 Superbad $18,044,369 $121,463,226
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy $17,202,212 $333,714,112
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $16,725,447 $191,204,754
2013 Lee Daniels' The Butler $16,503,812 $116,632,095
2024 Alien: Romulus $16,364,012 $104,728,383
2008 Tropic Thunder $16,272,195 $110,515,313
2014 If I Stay $15,679,190 $50,474,843

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Preston Foster (1900, died on July 14, 1970 at the age of 69), Hal Smith (1916, died on January 28, 1994 at the age of 77), Pierre Barillet (1923, died on January 8, 2019 at the age of 95), W. Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), William Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), Kenny Baker (1934, died on August 13, 2016 at the age of 81), Lando Buzzanca (1935, died on December 18, 2022 at the age of 87), Dante Spinotti (1943, turned 81 this year), Ronee Blakley (1945, turned 79 this year), Vince McMahon (1945, turned 79 this year), Castulo Guerra (1945, turned 79 this year), Anne Archer (1947, turned 77 this year), Charles Rocket (1949, died on October 7, 2005 at the age of 56), Joe Regalbuto (1949, turned 75 this year), Diana Ossana (1949, turned 75 this year), Tony Amendola (1951, turned 73 this year), David Blaustein (1953, died on August 16, 2021 at the age of 67), Mike Huckabee (1955, turned 69 this year), Meg Gibson (1955, turned 69 this year), Kevin Dunn (1956, turned 68 this year), Stephen Fry (1957, turned 67 this year), Steve Guttenberg (1958, turned 66 this year), Rodrigo Garcia (1959, turned 65 this year), Takashi Miike (1960, turned 64 this year), Jared Harris (1961, turned 63 this year), Mark Protosevich (1961, turned 63 this year), David Koechner (1962, turned 62 this year), Craig Kilborn (1962, turned 62 this year), Harriett D. Foy (1962, turned 62 this year), Gordon Warnecke (1962, turned 62 this year), Dana Gould (1964, turned 60 this year), Marlee Matlin (1965, turned 59 this year), Eric Edwards (1966, turned 58 this year), Pierfrancesco Favino (1969, turned 55 this year), Ava Duvernay (1972, turned 52 this year), Dave Chappelle (1973, turned 51 this year), Grey Griffin (1973, turned 51 this year), Barret Oliver (1973, turned 51 this year), Carmine Giovinazzo (1973, turned 51 this year), Ele Keats (1973, turned 51 this year), James D'Arcy (1975, turned 49 this year), Bonnie Root (1975, turned 49 this year), Drew Pearce (1975, turned 49 this year), Alex O'Loughlin (1976, turned 48 this year), Meital Dohan (1976, turned 48 this year), Nicolas Roye (1977, turned 47 this year), John Green (1977, turned 47 this year), Beth Riesgraf (1978, turned 46 this year), Rachael Carpani (1980, turned 44 this year), Sonja Bennett (1980, turned 44 this year), J.D. Daniels (1980, turned 44 this year), Chad Michael Murray (1981, turned 43 this year), Antonio Campos (1983, turned 41 this year), Cameron Goodman (1984, turned 40 this year), Blake Berris (1984, turned 40 this year), Rupert Grint (1988, turned 36 this year), Elizabeth Debicki (1990, turned 34 this year), Sean Stone (1992, died on March 5, 2024 at the age of 31), Oscar Robert Wahlberg (1998, turned 26 this year), Sofia Richie (1998, turned 26 this year), Griffin Gluck (2000, turned 24 this year)

Died on this day in history: Louis Prima (1978, at the age of 67), Morrie Ryskind (1985, at the age of 89), Leonard Frey (1988, at the age of 49), E.G. Marshall (1998, at the age of 84), Jane Greer (2001, at the age of 76), Satoshi Kon (2010, at the age of 46), Julie Harris (2013, at the age of 87), Richard Attenborough (2014, at the age of 90), Jay Thomas (2017, at the age of 69), Charlie Watts (2021, at the age of 80)

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