On This Day - October 26
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Venom: The Last Dance | Saturday | $16,820,420 | $63,947,430 |
| 2007 | Saw IV | Friday | $14,755,978 | $63,300,095 |
| 2013 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | Saturday | $11,514,488 | $102,003,019 |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | Sunday | $10,714,000 | $110,000,082 |
| 2018 | Halloween | Friday | $9,895,460 | $159,366,015 |
| 2008 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Sunday | $9,763,880 | $90,559,416 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Saturday | $9,019,135 | $274,092,705 |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Saturday | $8,270,749 | $113,929,605 |
| 2019 | Joker | Saturday | $8,186,141 | $335,451,311 |
| 2002 | Jackass: The Movie | Saturday | $7,810,579 | $64,282,312 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Saw IV | Friday | $14,755,978 | $63,300,095 |
| 2001 | K-PAX | Friday | $5,540,000 | $50,315,140 |
| 2001 | Thirteen Ghosts | Friday | $5,380,000 | $41,867,960 |
| 2007 | Dan in Real Life | Friday | $4,167,102 | $47,642,963 |
| 2012 | Silent Hill: Revelation 3D | Friday | $3,570,011 | $17,530,219 |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Friday | $3,402,211 | $27,108,272 |
| 2018 | Hunter Killer | Friday | $2,559,110 | $15,767,460 |
| 2012 | Fun Size | Friday | $1,335,788 | $9,409,538 |
| 2012 | Chasing Mavericks | Friday | $827,050 | $6,002,756 |
| 2018 | Indivisible | Friday | $609,905 | $3,511,417 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 26.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Venom: The Last Dance | $51,012,404 | $63,947,430 |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | $48,113,770 | $110,000,082 |
| 2008 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | $42,030,184 | $90,559,416 |
| 2013 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | $32,055,177 | $102,003,019 |
| 2007 | Saw IV | $31,756,764 | $63,300,095 |
| 2018 | Halloween | $31,419,070 | $159,366,015 |
| 2008 | Saw V | $30,053,954 | $56,746,769 |
| 2002 | Jackass: The Movie | $22,763,437 | $64,282,312 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $20,135,387 | $274,092,705 |
| 2014 | Ouija | $19,875,995 | $50,856,010 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Rudolf Lettinger (1865, died on March 21, 1937 at the age of 71), Don Siegel (1912, died on April 20, 1991 at the age of 78), Jackie Coogan (1914, died on March 1, 1984 at the age of 69), Sun Yueh (1930, died on May 1, 2018 at the age of 87), Mike Gray (1935, died on April 30, 2013 at the age of 77), Barry Malkin (1938, died on April 4, 2019 at the age of 80), Bob Hoskins (1942, died on April 29, 2014 at the age of 71), Chelcie Ross (1942, turned 82 this year), Jaclyn Smith (1945, turned 79 this year), Jaclyn Smith (1945, turned 79 this year), Holly Woodlawn (1946, died on December 6, 2015 at the age of 69), Pat Sajak (1946, turned 78 this year), Julian Schnabel (1951, turned 73 this year), Rondi Reed (1952, turned 72 this year), Roger Allam (1953, turned 71 this year), Lauren Tewes (1953, turned 71 this year), Maureen Teefy (1953, turned 71 this year), D.W. Moffett (1954, turned 70 this year), James Pickens, Jr. (1954, turned 70 this year), Rita Wilson (1956, turned 68 this year), Julie Dawn Cole (1957, turned 67 this year), Brian Bovell (1959, turned 65 this year), Francois Chau (1959, turned 65 this year), Patrick Breen (1960, turned 64 this year), Dylan McDermott (1961, turned 63 this year), Cary Elwes (1962, turned 62 this year), Ted Demme (1963, died on January 13, 2002 at the age of 38), Tom Cavanagh (1964, turned 60 this year), Kelly Rowan (1965, turned 59 this year), Steve Valentine (1966, turned 58 this year), Jane Hajduk (1966, turned 58 this year), Keith Urban (1967, turned 57 this year), Robert Maillet (1969, turned 55 this year), Lisa Ryder (1970, turned 54 this year), Dian Bachar (1970, turned 54 this year), Anthony Rapp (1971, turned 53 this year), Rosemarie DeWitt (1971, turned 53 this year), Rupert Wyatt (1972, turned 52 this year), Seth MacFarlane (1973, turned 51 this year), Raveena Tandon (1974, turned 50 this year), Florence Kasumba (1976, turned 48 this year), Hal Ozsan (1976, turned 48 this year), Jon Heder (1977, turned 47 this year), Wynn Everett (1978, turned 46 this year), C.M. Punk (1978, turned 46 this year), Jonathan Chase (1979, turned 45 this year), Khalid Abdalla (1980, turned 44 this year), Mahesh Jadu (1982, turned 42 this year), Tom Brittney (1990, turned 34 this year), Allie DeBerry (1994, turned 30 this year), Morgan Saylor (1994, turned 30 this year), Alexandria Deberry (1994, turned 30 this year), Samantha Isler (1998, turned 26 this year), Ellery Sprayberry (2000, turned 24 this year), Julian Dennison (2002, turned 22 this year), McKenna Roberts (2007, turned 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: Hattie McDaniel (1952, at the age of 59), Louise Beavers (1962, at the age of 60), Bernard L. Kowalski (2007, at the age of 78), Mac Ahlberg (2012, at the age of 81), Sam Sarpong (2015, at the age of 81), Simon Fitzmaurice (2017, at the age of 81), Robert Evans (2019, at the age of 89), Mort Sahl (2021, at the age of 94), Richard Moll (2023, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.