On This Day - September 15
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | It | Friday | $19,162,071 | $328,828,874 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Sunday | $14,370,215 | $251,440,601 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | Sunday | $9,448,683 | $211,593,228 |
| 2018 | The Predator | Saturday | $8,394,521 | $51,024,708 |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Sunday | $7,881,166 | $104,963,598 |
| 2018 | The Nun | Saturday | $7,658,704 | $117,450,119 |
| 2012 | Resident Evil: Retribution | Saturday | $7,634,314 | $42,345,531 |
| 2012 | Finding Nemo | Saturday | $7,009,590 | $380,529,370 |
| 2013 | Insidious Chapter 2 | Sunday | $6,643,342 | $83,586,447 |
| 2018 | A Simple Favor | Saturday | $6,306,587 | $53,548,586 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | American Assassin | Friday | $5,783,488 | $36,249,674 |
| 2023 | A Haunting in Venice | Friday | $5,542,594 | $42,471,412 |
| 2006 | Gridiron Gang | Friday | $4,804,783 | $38,432,823 |
| 2006 | The Black Dahlia | Friday | $3,706,290 | $22,672,813 |
| 2017 | mother! | Friday | $3,091,084 | $17,800,004 |
| 2006 | The Last Kiss | Friday | $1,751,094 | $11,614,790 |
| 2000 | Bait | Friday | $1,668,000 | $15,325,127 |
| 2006 | Everyone's Hero | Friday | $1,617,031 | $14,523,101 |
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Friday | $738,000 | $32,522,352 |
| 2000 | Duets | Friday | $724,000 | $4,734,235 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 15.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | It | $60,103,110 | $328,828,874 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | $51,350,355 | $251,440,601 |
| 2013 | Insidious Chapter 2 | $40,272,103 | $83,586,447 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | $39,606,550 | $211,593,228 |
| 2019 | Hustlers | $33,181,361 | $104,963,598 |
| 2018 | The Predator | $24,632,284 | $51,024,708 |
| 2012 | Resident Evil: Retribution | $21,052,227 | $42,345,531 |
| 2002 | Barbershop | $20,627,433 | $75,781,642 |
| 2018 | The Nun | $18,238,263 | $117,450,119 |
| 2012 | Finding Nemo | $16,687,773 | $380,529,370 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Agatha Christie (1890, died on January 12, 1976 at the age of 85), Jean Renoir (1894, died on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84), Jacques Becker (1906, died on February 21, 1960 at the age of 53), Fay Wray (1907, died on August 8, 2004 at the age of 96), Penny Singleton (1908, died on November 12, 2003 at the age of 95), Joseph Pevney (1911, died on May 18, 2008 at the age of 96), Nelson Gidding (1919, died on May 1, 2004 at the age of 84), James Jeter (1921, turned 103 this year), Jackie Cooper (1922, died on May 3, 2011 at the age of 88), Bobby Short (1924, died on March 21, 2005 at the age of 80), Carlo Rambaldi (1925, died on August 10, 2012 at the age of 86), Norm Crosby (1927, died on November 7, 2020 at the age of 93), Henry Silva (1928, turned 96 this year), Dick Latessa (1929, died on December 19, 2016 at the age of 87), Brian Henderson (1931, died on August 5, 2021 at the age of 89), Henry Darrow (1933, died on March 14, 2021 at the age of 87), Tomie dePaola (1934, died on March 30, 2020 at the age of 85), John Reynolds (1941, turned 83 this year), Pik-Sen Lim (1944, turned 80 this year), Ron Shelton (1945, turned 79 this year), Carmen Maura (1945, turned 79 this year), Roy Brocksmith (1945, died on December 16, 2001 at the age of 56), Clive Merrison (1945, turned 79 this year), Tommy Lee Jones (1946, turned 78 this year), Oliver Stone (1946, turned 78 this year), Judith Ridley (1946, turned 78 this year), Wilbur Fitzgerald (1948, turned 76 this year), Keiko Takeshita (1953, turned 71 this year), Barry Shabaka Henley (1954, turned 70 this year), Brad Leland (1954, turned 70 this year), Bruce Reitherman (1955, turned 69 this year), Michael Countryman (1955, turned 69 this year), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957, turned 67 this year), Wendie Jo Sperber (1958, died on November 29, 2005 at the age of 47), Ed Solomon (1960, turned 64 this year), Suzanne Hevner (1960, died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 58), Jack Gwaltney (1960, turned 64 this year), Colin McFarlane (1961, turned 63 this year), Dan Marino (1961, turned 63 this year), Rebecca Miller (1962, turned 62 this year), Matt Roth (1964, turned 60 this year), Steven R. Monroe (1964, turned 60 this year), Bert Kish (1965, died on May 24, 2017 at the age of 51), Wenn V. Deramas (1966, died on February 29, 2016 at the age of 49), Don Wycherley (1967, turned 57 this year), Danny Nucci (1968, turned 56 this year), Susan Dalian (1968, turned 56 this year), Deidre Goodwin (1969, turned 55 this year), Ramya Krishnan (1970, turned 54 this year), Josh Charles (1971, turned 53 this year), Colleen O’Shaughnessey (1971, turned 53 this year), Jimmy Carr (1972, turned 52 this year), John Schwab (1972, turned 52 this year), Jonathan Eusebio (1973, turned 51 this year), Jonathan Liebesman (1976, turned 48 this year), Tom Hardy (1977, turned 47 this year), Caterina Murino (1977, turned 47 this year), Sophie Dahl (1977, turned 47 this year), Dave Annable (1979, turned 45 this year), Amy Davidson (1979, turned 45 this year), Ben Schwartz (1981, turned 43 this year), Josh Janowicz (1981, turned 43 this year), Heidi Montag (1986, turned 38 this year), Jenna Marbles (1986, turned 38 this year), Christian Cooke (1987, turned 37 this year), Ingrid Bisu (1987, turned 37 this year), Kate Mansi (1987, turned 37 this year), Chelsea Kane (1988, turned 36 this year), John Bradley (1988, turned 36 this year), Chloe Dykstra (1988, turned 36 this year), Katelyn Pacitto (1989, turned 35 this year), Matt Shively (1990, turned 34 this year), Camelia Jordana (1992, turned 32 this year), Fady Elsayed (1993, turned 31 this year)
Died on this day in history: John Hoyt (1991, at the age of 85), Sidney Luft (2005, at the age of 89), Frances Bay (2011, at the age of 92), Harry Dean Stanton (2017, at the age of 91), Kirin Kiki (2018, at the age of 75), John M. Dwyer (2018, at the age of 83), Phyllis Newman (2019, at the age of 86), Axel Jodorowsky (2022, at the age of 86), Fernando Botero (2023, at the age of 91), Billy Miller (2023, at the age of 43), Sello Motloung (2024, at the age of 53), Elias Khoury (2024, at the age of 76)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.