On This Day - February 17
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 17.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | Saturday | $65,995,366 | $700,059,566 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Friday | $46,431,851 | $214,506,909 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Saturday | $17,338,380 | $115,802,596 |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Saturday | $14,000,000 | $165,092,266 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Monday | $12,632,036 | $258,364,131 |
| 2020 | Sonic The Hedgehog | Monday | $11,983,726 | $146,066,470 |
| 2024 | Bob Marley: One Love | Saturday | $11,685,730 | $96,981,216 |
| 2025 | Captain America: Brave New World | Monday | $11,178,411 | $200,500,001 |
| 2019 | Alita: Battle Angel | Sunday | $9,300,205 | $85,838,210 |
| 2007 | Bridge to Terabithia | Saturday | $9,035,948 | $82,234,139 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 17.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Friday | $46,431,851 | $214,506,909 |
| 2012 | Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Friday | $6,934,834 | $51,774,002 |
| 2006 | Date Movie | Friday | $6,839,360 | $48,548,426 |
| 2017 | The Great Wall | Friday | $5,884,250 | $45,157,105 |
| 2012 | This Means War | Friday | $5,583,770 | $54,760,791 |
| 2006 | Eight Below | Friday | $5,093,211 | $81,612,565 |
| 2017 | Fist Fight | Friday | $3,806,379 | $32,187,017 |
| 2006 | Freedomland | Friday | $1,813,104 | $12,512,886 |
| 2012 | Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ) | Friday | $1,692,721 | $19,192,510 |
| 2017 | A Cure for Wellness | Friday | $1,521,458 | $8,106,986 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 17.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | $202,003,951 | $700,059,566 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $106,109,650 | $214,506,909 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | $45,388,836 | $115,802,596 |
| 2001 | Hannibal | $33,501,505 | $165,092,266 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | $32,655,114 | $175,750,384 |
| 2024 | Bob Marley: One Love | $28,659,004 | $96,981,216 |
| 2019 | Alita: Battle Angel | $28,525,613 | $85,838,210 |
| 2008 | Jumper | $27,354,808 | $80,172,128 |
| 2013 | A Good Day to Die Hard | $24,834,845 | $67,349,198 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | $23,674,295 | $134,506,920 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Mary Brian (1906, died on December 30, 2002 at the age of 96), Marc Lawrence (1910, died on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95), Arthur Kennedy (1914, died on January 5, 1990 at the age of 75), Wayne Morris (1914, died on September 14, 1959 at the age of 45), Raf Vallone (1916, died on October 31, 2002 at the age of 86), Kathleen Freeman (1919, died on August 23, 2001 at the age of 82), Hal Holbrook (1925, died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95), Jeremy Slate (1926, died on November 19, 2006 at the age of 80), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929, turned 96 this year), Barry Humphries (1934, died on April 22, 2023 at the age of 89), Alan Bates (1934, died on December 27, 2003 at the age of 69), Christina Pickles (1935, turned 90 this year), Jim Brown (1936, turned 89 this year), Benjamin Whitrow (1937, died on September 28, 2017 at the age of 80), Mary Ann Mobley (1937, died on December 9, 2014 at the age of 77), Jo Kendall (1938, died on January 29, 2022 at the age of 83), James Laurenson (1940, turned 85 this year), Julia McKenzie (1941, turned 84 this year), Brenda Fricker (1945, turned 80 this year), Garry Chalk (1952, turned 73 this year), Becky Ann Baker (1953, turned 72 this year), Rene Russo (1954, turned 71 this year), Lars Brygmann (1957, turned 68 this year), Carole Davis (1958, turned 67 this year), Dave Courtney (1959, died on October 22, 2023 at the age of 64), Tuesday Knight (1961, turned 64 this year), Lou Diamond Phillips (1962, turned 63 this year), Michael Jordan (1963, turned 62 this year), Larry the Cable Guy (1963, turned 62 this year), Michael Bay (1965, turned 60 this year), Dominic Purcell (1970, turned 55 this year), Denise Richards (1971, turned 54 this year), Lisa McCune (1971, turned 54 this year), Billie Joe Armstrong (1972, turned 53 this year), Taylor Hawkins (1972, died on March 25, 2022 at the age of 50), Jerry O'Connell (1974, turned 51 this year), Kelly Carlson (1976, turned 49 this year), Isaac Kappy (1977, died on May 13, 2019 at the age of 42), Erin Cardillo (1977, turned 48 this year), Rory Kinnear (1978, turned 47 this year), Ashton Holmes (1978, turned 47 this year), Jackson Hurst (1979, turned 46 this year), Jason Ritter (1980, turned 45 this year), Paris Hilton (1981, turned 44 this year), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981, turned 44 this year), Brooke D’Orsay (1982, turned 43 this year), Chord Overstreet (1989, turned 36 this year), Bonnie Wright (1991, turned 34 this year), Ed Sheeran (1991, turned 34 this year), Meaghan Martin (1992, turned 33 this year), Sasha Pieterse (1996, turned 29 this year), Cameron Seely (2007, turned 18 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean Servais (1976, at the age of 65), Lee Strasberg (1982, at the age of 80), Paul Stewart (1986, at the age of 77), Shirley Stoler (1999, at the age of 69), Daniel O’Herlihy (2005, at the age of 85), Kathryn Grayson (2010, at the age of 88), Richard Briers (2013, at the age of 79), Ray West (2016, at the age of 90), Andrzej Żuławski (2016, at the age of 75), Börge Hellström (2017, at the age of 59), Kim Ji-young (2017, at the age of 78), Leah Adler (2017, at the age of 97), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Charles Portis (2020, at the age of 86), Henry Gray (2020, at the age of 95), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Stella Stevens (2023, at the age of 84), Gerald Fried (2023, at the age of 95), Shahnawaz Pradhan (2023, at the age of 56), George T. Miller (2023, at the age of 79), Suhani Bhatnagar (2024, at the age of 19), Antonine Maillet (2025, at the age of 95), Carlos Miranda (2025, at the age of 91), Jamie Muir (2025, at the age of 82)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.