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 | $636,680,277 |
| 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 | $105,313,091 |
| 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 | $636,680,277 |
| 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 | $105,313,091 |
| 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.