On This Day - September 11
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 11.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Saturday | $15,343,106 | $224,543,292 |
| 2015 | The Perfect Guy | Friday | $9,911,385 | $57,027,435 |
| 2010 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | Saturday | $9,809,654 | $60,128,566 |
| 2015 | The Visit | Friday | $9,207,110 | $65,206,105 |
| 2017 | It | Monday | $8,761,479 | $328,828,874 |
| 2009 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Friday | $8,600,660 | $51,733,921 |
| 2004 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Saturday | $8,487,303 | $50,740,078 |
| 2016 | Sully | Sunday | $8,207,498 | $125,070,033 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Saturday | $7,423,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | Sunday | $6,821,983 | $75,072,454 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 11.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Perfect Guy | Friday | $9,911,385 | $57,027,435 |
| 2015 | The Visit | Friday | $9,207,110 | $65,206,105 |
| 2009 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Friday | $8,600,660 | $51,733,921 |
| 1998 | Rounders | Friday | $2,745,000 | $22,921,898 |
| 2009 | Sorority Row | Friday | $1,968,297 | $11,965,282 |
| 2009 | Whiteout | Friday | $1,770,434 | $10,275,638 |
| 1998 | Simon Birch | Friday | $905,000 | $18,253,415 |
| 2015 | 90 Minutes in Heaven | Friday | $758,767 | $4,816,142 |
| 2020 | The Broken Hearts Gallery | Friday | $440,725 | $4,066,487 |
| 2015 | Meet the Patels | Friday | $25,047 | $1,700,680 |
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 11.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sully | $35,028,301 | $125,070,033 |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | $34,701,070 | $224,543,292 |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose | $30,054,300 | $75,072,454 |
| 2010 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | $26,650,264 | $60,128,566 |
| 2015 | The Perfect Guy | $25,888,154 | $57,027,435 |
| 2015 | The Visit | $25,427,560 | $65,206,105 |
| 2009 | I Can Do Bad All By Myself | $23,446,785 | $51,733,921 |
| 2004 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse | $23,036,273 | $50,740,078 |
| 2011 | Contagion | $22,403,596 | $75,658,097 |
| 1999 | Stigmata | $18,309,666 | $50,041,732 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled New Line Horror Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: D.H. Lawrence (1885, died on March 2, 1930 at the age of 44), Pinto Colvig (1892, died on October 3, 1967 at the age of 75), Herbert Lom (1917, died on September 27, 2012 at the age of 95), Henderson Forsythe (1917, died on April 17, 2006 at the age of 88), Scott Forbes (1920, died on February 25, 1997 at the age of 76), Alan Badel (1923, died on March 19, 1982 at the age of 58), Carol Grace (1924, turns 100 this year), David Morris (1924, died on October 29, 2007 at the age of 83), Lee Richardson (1926, died on October 2, 1999 at the age of 73), James O'Hara (1927, turns 97 this year), Eve Brent (1929, turns 95 this year), Ian Abercrombie (1934, died on January 26, 2012 at the age of 77), Pavel Landovsky (1936, died on October 10, 2014 at the age of 78), Tom Dreesen (1939, turns 85 this year), Brian De Palma (1940, turns 84 this year), Stephen Verona (1940, died on July 13, 2019 at the age of 78), Brian Perkins (1943, turns 81 this year), Felton Perry (1945, turns 79 this year), Julie Payne (1946, turns 78 this year), Michael Sacks (1948, turns 76 this year), Amy Madigan (1950, turns 74 this year), Patrick F. McDade (1951, turns 73 this year), Jill James (1952, died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 66), Jenny Gago (1953, turns 71 this year), Reed Birney (1954, turns 70 this year), Tibor Takacs (1954, turns 70 this year), Christian Eisenbeiss (1955, died on March 30, 2017 at the age of 61), Tony Gilroy (1956, turns 68 this year), Adriane Lenox (1956, turns 68 this year), Phoef Sutton (1958, turns 66 this year), Scott Patterson (1958, turns 66 this year), Roxann Dawson (1958, turns 66 this year), Scott Patterson (1958, turns 66 this year), Julia Nickson-Soul (1958, turns 66 this year), John Hawkes (1959, turns 65 this year), Anne Ramsay (1960, turns 64 this year), John Curran (1960, turns 64 this year), Virginia Madsen (1961, turns 63 this year), Elizabeth Daily (1961, turns 63 this year), Susan Gibney (1961, turns 63 this year), Kristy McNichol (1962, turns 62 this year), Kristy McNichol (1962, turns 62 this year), David Valcin (1964, turns 60 this year), Moby (1965, turns 59 this year), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967, turns 57 this year), Paul Mayeda Berges (1968, turns 56 this year), Litefoot (1968, turns 56 this year), Michael Feifer (1968, turns 56 this year), Bertrand Bonello (1968, turns 56 this year), Taraji P. Henson (1970, turns 54 this year), Laura Wright (1970, turns 54 this year), Alessandra Rosaldo (1971, turns 53 this year), Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges (1977, turns 47 this year), Lauren Maher (1977, turns 47 this year), Ariana Richards (1979, turns 45 this year), Cameron Richardson (1979, turns 45 this year), Tiffany Shepis (1979, turns 45 this year), Lachlan Nieboer (1981, turns 43 this year), Shriya Saran (1982, turns 42 this year), Hayden Szeto (1985, turns 39 this year), Nazanin Mandi (1986, turns 38 this year), Tyler Hoechlin (1987, turns 37 this year), Elizabeth Henstridge (1987, turns 37 this year), Arthur Berning (1987, turns 37 this year), Michael J. Willett (1989, turns 35 this year), Charlotte De Bruyne (1990, turns 34 this year), Henry Hopper (1990, turns 34 this year), Mackenzie Aladjem (2001, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Chester Morris (1970, at the age of 69), Percy Helton (1971, at the age of 77), Lorne Greene (1987, at the age of 72), Jessica Tandy (1994, at the age of 85), Dane Clark (1998, at the age of 86), Kim Hunter (2002, at the age of 79), John Ritter (2003, at the age of 54), Zakes Mokae (2009, at the age of 75), Harold Gould (2010, at the age of 86), Kevin McCarthy (2010, at the age of 96), Joachim Fuchsberger (2014, at the age of 87), Alan Purwin (2015, at the age of 87), Alexis Arquette (2016, at the age of 47), Peter Hall (2017, at the age of 86), Mardik Martin (2019, at the age of 82), Alain Tanner (2022, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.