On This Day - August 4
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Sunday | $30,403,979 | $631,645,158 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Saturday | $25,290,665 | $227,471,070 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Saturday | $23,636,500 | $226,164,286 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Friday | $18,016,961 | $148,213,377 |
| 2002 | Signs | Sunday | $17,548,154 | $227,969,295 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Friday | $16,543,731 | $636,238,421 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Sunday | $15,880,625 | $173,956,935 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | Saturday | $14,731,942 | $220,159,104 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Saturday | $14,273,114 | $448,139,099 |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Friday | $12,146,883 | $82,633,033 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Friday | $18,016,961 | $148,213,377 |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Friday | $12,146,883 | $82,633,033 |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Friday | $9,082,000 | $73,209,340 |
| 2017 | The Dark Tower | Friday | $7,724,436 | $50,701,325 |
| 2000 | Coyote Ugly | Friday | $7,116,000 | $60,786,269 |
| 2006 | Barnyard: The Original Party Animals | Friday | $5,481,275 | $72,779,000 |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Friday | $5,206,000 | $90,454,043 |
| 2017 | Kidnap | Friday | $3,729,150 | $30,718,107 |
| 2006 | The Descent | Friday | $3,389,298 | $26,024,456 |
| 2015 | Doragon bôru Z: Fukkatsu no 'F' | Tuesday | $1,975,568 | $8,008,363 |
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 4.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $96,809,328 | $631,645,158 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | $69,283,690 | $227,471,070 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | $67,408,222 | $226,164,286 |
| 2002 | Signs | $60,116,619 | $227,969,295 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | $60,038,950 | $173,956,935 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $53,008,647 | $636,238,421 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | $47,042,215 | $148,213,377 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | $38,520,022 | $543,638,043 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $35,737,330 | $448,139,099 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | $35,323,815 | $220,159,104 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Joseph Calleia (1897, died on October 31, 1975 at the age of 78), Anita Page (1910, died on September 6, 2008 at the age of 98), Wesley Addy (1913, died on December 31, 1996 at the age of 83), Kishore Kumar (1929, died on October 13, 1987 at the age of 58), Jeanne Carmen (1930, died on December 20, 2007 at the age of 77), David Seidler (1937, died on March 16, 2024 at the age of 86), Martin Jarvis (1941, turned 83 this year), Paul Mooney (1941, died on May 19, 2021 at the age of 79), Don S. Davis (1942, turned 82 this year), Richard Belzer (1944, died on February 19, 2023 at the age of 78), William Frankfather (1944, died on December 28, 1998 at the age of 54), Ian Liston (1948, died on October 1, 2016 at the age of 68), Sara Botsford (1951, turned 73 this year), Kristoffer Tabori (1952, turned 72 this year), Donald Gibb (1954, turned 70 this year), Billy Bob Thornton (1955, turned 69 this year), Victor Love (1957, turned 67 this year), Kym Karath (1958, turned 66 this year), Bernard Rose (1960, turned 64 this year), Lauren Tom (1961, turned 63 this year), Barack Obama (1961, turned 63 this year), Sebastian Roche (1964, turned 60 this year), James Tupper (1965, turned 59 this year), Amelia Campbell (1965, turned 59 this year), Timothy Adams (1967, turned 57 this year), Arbaaz Khan (1967, turned 57 this year), Daniel Dae Kim (1968, turned 56 this year), Lexie Bigham (1968, turned 56 this year), Fenella Woolgar (1969, turned 55 this year), Vlad Ivanov (1969, turned 55 this year), Ron Lester (1970, died on June 17, 2016 at the age of 45), Kristin Richardson (1970, turned 54 this year), John August (1970, turned 54 this year), Thomas J. Churchill (1970, turned 54 this year), Dan Payne (1972, turned 52 this year), Sabine Singh (1974, turned 50 this year), Sari Lennick (1975, turned 49 this year), Daniella van Graas (1975, turned 49 this year), David Lewis (1976, turned 48 this year), Marco Bocci (1977, turned 47 this year), Satoshi Hino (1978, turned 46 this year), Nikolett Barabas (1979, turned 45 this year), Abigail Spencer (1981, turned 43 this year), Meghan Markle (1981, turned 43 this year), Marques Houston (1981, turned 43 this year), Greta Gerwig (1983, turned 41 this year), Adhir Kalyan (1983, turned 41 this year), Lily Costner (1986, turned 38 this year), Sam Underwood (1987, turned 37 this year), David Kaye (1988, turned 36 this year), Jessica Mauboy (1989, turned 35 this year), Chet Hanks (1990, turned 34 this year), Cole Sprouse (1992, turned 32 this year), Dylan Sprouse (1992, turned 32 this year), Meghan Rienks (1993, turned 31 this year), Emilija Baranac (1994, turned 30 this year), Lara Peake (1998, turned 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Melvyn Douglas (1981, at the age of 80), Victor Mature (1999, at the age of 86), Blake Snyder (2009, at the age of 51), Kathleen M. Shea (2017, at the age of 71), Daisy Coleman (2020, at the age of 23), Christian Barbier (2022, at the age of 82), Luis Alarcón (2023, at the age of 93), Charles Ogletree (2023, at the age of 70), Charles Cyphers (2024, at the age of 85)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.