On This Day - September 3

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 3.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Friday $29,502,259 $224,543,292
2023 The Equalizer 3 Sunday $10,512,162 $92,373,751
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Monday $6,611,877 $174,532,921
2016 Don’t Breathe Saturday $5,947,359 $89,217,875
2005 The Transporter 2 Saturday $5,815,921 $43,095,856
2011 The Help Saturday $5,364,078 $169,705,587
1999 The Sixth Sense Friday $5,353,000 $293,506,292
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin Saturday $4,859,175 $109,449,237
2006 Invincible Sunday $4,502,442 $57,806,952
2007 Halloween Monday $4,229,392 $58,269,151

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 3.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Friday $29,502,259 $224,543,292
2010 Machete Friday $3,866,357 $26,593,646
2010 Going the Distance Friday $2,229,382 $17,804,299
2004 Paparazzi Friday $1,800,000 $15,712,072
2004 Wicker Park Friday $1,700,000 $13,001,257
2004 The Cookout Friday $1,600,000 $11,540,112
2010 We Are Family Friday $72,150 $638,144
2021 Tango Shalom Friday $4,725 $102,651
2021 Celle que vous croyez Friday $2,584 $45,265
2010 White Wedding Friday $2,384 $11,711

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 3.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $75,388,688 $224,543,292
2023 The Equalizer 3 $34,604,229 $92,373,751
1999 The Sixth Sense $29,271,146 $293,506,292
1993 The Fugitive $17,239,413 $183,875,760
2005 The Transporter 2 $16,540,720 $43,095,856
2016 Don’t Breathe $15,833,223 $89,217,875
2011 The Help $14,594,623 $169,705,587
2000 Bring it On $14,170,825 $68,353,550
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin $13,301,085 $109,449,237
2010 The American $13,177,790 $35,606,376

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Heather Thatcher (1896, turned 128 this year), Cecil Parker (1897, died on April 20, 1971 at the age of 73), Alan Ladd (1913, died on January 29, 1964 at the age of 50), Burt Kennedy (1922, died on February 15, 2001 at the age of 78), Anne Jackson (1925, died on April 12, 2016 at the age of 90), Uttam Kumar (1926, died on July 24, 1980 at the age of 53), Irene Papas (1926, died on September 14, 2022 at the age of 96), Nora Denney (1927, died on November 20, 2005 at the age of 78), Whitey Bulger (1929, died on October 30, 2018 at the age of 89), James R. Alexander (1930, died on August 19, 2019 at the age of 88), Eileen Brennan (1932, died on July 28, 2013 at the age of 80), David Byrd (1932, turned 92 this year), Christian Barbier (1939, died on August 4, 2022 at the age of 82), Pauline Collins (1940, turned 84 this year), Macha Meril (1940, turned 84 this year), Ray Xifo (1942, turned 82 this year), Valerie Perrine (1943, turned 81 this year), R. Bruce Elliott (1949, turned 75 this year), Lou Richards (1951, turned 73 this year), Shakti Kapoor (1952, turned 72 this year), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953, turned 71 this year), Stephen Woolley (1956, turned 68 this year), Adam Brooks (1956, turned 68 this year), Steve Schirripa (1957, turned 67 this year), Kevin McCorkle (1958, turned 66 this year), Merritt Butrick (1959, turned 65 this year), Holt McCallany (1963, turned 61 this year), A.J. Johnson (1963, turned 61 this year), Serena Gordon (1963, turned 61 this year), Daniel Myrick (1963, turned 61 this year), Beth McCarthy-Miller (1963, turned 61 this year), Spike Feresten (1964, turned 60 this year), Charlie Sheen (1965, turned 59 this year), Costas Mandylor (1965, turned 59 this year), Drena De Niro (1967, turned 57 this year), Catya Sassoon (1968, turned 56 this year), Raymond Coulthard (1968, turned 56 this year), John Fugelsang (1969, turned 55 this year), Noah Baumbach (1969, turned 55 this year), Maria Bamford (1970, turned 54 this year), Scott Robinson (1970, turned 54 this year), Trevor St. John (1971, turned 53 this year), Yuval Segal (1971, turned 53 this year), Maja Ostaszewska (1972, turned 52 this year), Jeroen Van Koningsbrugge (1973, turned 51 this year), Clare Kramer (1974, turned 50 this year), Daniel Chan (1975, turned 49 this year), Ashley Jones (1976, turned 48 this year), Shonka Dukureh (1977, died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 44), Nick Wechsler (1978, turned 46 this year), Nichole Hiltz (1978, turned 46 this year), David Shae (1981, turned 43 this year), Evgenia Brik (1981, died on February 10, 2022 at the age of 40), Angus Sutherland (1982, turned 42 this year), Christine Woods (1983, turned 41 this year), Garrett Hedlund (1984, turned 40 this year), Paz de la Huerta (1984, turned 40 this year), Yūki Kaji (1985, turned 39 this year), Leah McKendrick (1986, turned 38 this year), Shaun White (1986, turned 38 this year), Matteo Simoni (1987, turned 37 this year), Hana Makhmalbaf (1988, turned 36 this year), Rita Volk (1990, turned 34 this year), Nina Kiri (1992, turned 32 this year), Shota Sometani (1992, turned 32 this year), Ashley Boettcher (2000, turned 24 this year), Jack Dylan Grazer (2003, turned 21 this year), Eloise Webb (2003, turned 21 this year)

Died on this day in history: Eugene Pallette (1954, at the age of 55), Frank Capra (1991, at the age of 94), Edward Anhalt (2000, at the age of 86), Michael Clarke Duncan (2012, at the age of 54), Leslie H. Martinson (2016, at the age of 101), John Ashbery (2017, at the age of 90), John Byrne Cooke (2017, at the age of 76), Carol Lynley (2019, at the age of 77)

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