On This Day - February 23
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | Friday | $28,789,877 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Saturday | $22,289,305 | $160,799,505 |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | Saturday | $9,940,407 | $72,266,306 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Sunday | $9,550,587 | $258,364,131 |
| 2025 | Captain America: Brave New World | Sunday | $8,020,294 | $200,500,001 |
| 2020 | Sonic The Hedgehog | Sunday | $7,871,248 | $146,066,470 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Saturday | $6,668,780 | $134,506,920 |
| 2020 | The Call of the Wild | Sunday | $6,616,300 | $62,342,368 |
| 2008 | The Spiderwick Chronicles | Saturday | $6,042,362 | $71,195,053 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Friday | $5,895,703 | $115,802,596 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Number 23 | Friday | $5,800,000 | $35,193,167 |
| 2024 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—To the Hashira Training (鬼滅の刃 柱稽古編) | Friday | $5,602,987 | $17,657,658 |
| 2018 | Game Night | Friday | $5,596,003 | $69,179,066 |
| 2007 | Reno 911!: Miami | Friday | $4,099,371 | $20,342,161 |
| 2018 | Annihilation | Friday | $3,866,815 | $32,732,301 |
| 2024 | Ordinary Angels | Friday | $2,327,954 | $19,174,421 |
| 2001 | 3000 Miles to Graceland | Friday | $2,185,000 | $15,738,632 |
| 2017 | Is Genesis History? | Thursday | $1,712,472 | $2,570,355 |
| 2007 | Amazing Grace | Friday | $1,400,000 | $21,214,987 |
| 2007 | The Astronaut Farmer | Friday | $1,368,337 | $11,003,643 |
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 23.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | $111,658,835 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | $55,022,245 | $160,799,505 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | $31,305,359 | $258,364,131 |
| 2025 | Captain America: Brave New World | $28,170,093 | $200,500,001 |
| 2020 | Sonic The Hedgehog | $26,192,294 | $146,066,470 |
| 2020 | The Call of the Wild | $24,791,624 | $62,342,368 |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | $22,874,936 | $72,266,306 |
| 1997 | Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back | $21,975,993 | $291,738,960 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | $20,067,443 | $115,802,596 |
| 2003 | Daredevil | $18,092,309 | $102,543,518 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Victor Fleming (1889, died on January 6, 1949 at the age of 59), Norman Taurog (1899, died on April 7, 1981 at the age of 82), Terence Fisher (1904, died on June 18, 1980 at the age of 76), Jon Hall (1915, died on December 13, 1979 at the age of 64), Claude Sautet (1924, died on July 22, 2000 at the age of 76), Dorothy Steel (1926, died on October 15, 2021 at the age of 95), Joseph Koo (1931, died on January 3, 2023 at the age of 91), Majel Barrett (1932, died on December 18, 2008 at the age of 76), Federico Luppi (1936, died on October 20, 2017 at the age of 81), Paul Morrissey (1938, died on October 28, 2024 at the age of 86), Jiri Menzel (1938, died on September 5, 2020 at the age of 82), Alan Ford (1938, turned 87 this year), Denis Arndt (1939, died on March 25, 2025 at the age of 86), Peter Fonda (1940, died on August 16, 2019 at the age of 79), George Gerdes (1948, died on January 1, 2021 at the age of 72), Mary Pat Gleason (1950, died on June 2, 2020 at the age of 70), Patricia Richardson (1951, turned 74 this year), Kenny Bee (1953, turned 72 this year), Howard Jones (1955, turned 70 this year), David Warshofsky (1961, turned 64 this year), Nigel Whitmey (1963, turned 62 this year), Ronan Vibert (1964, died on December 22, 2022 at the age of 58), Marni Nixon (1965, died on July 24, 2016 at the age of 51), Veronica Webb (1965, turned 60 this year), Marc Price (1968, turned 57 this year), Niecy Nash (1970, turned 55 this year), Marie-Josee Croze (1970, turned 55 this year), Callan Mulvey (1975, turned 50 this year), Robert Lopez (1975, turned 50 this year), Kelly Macdonald (1976, turned 49 this year), Lorne Balfe (1976, turned 49 this year), Kris Lemche (1978, turned 47 this year), Josh Gad (1981, turned 44 this year), Inna Korobkina (1981, turned 44 this year), Adam Hann-Byrd (1982, turned 43 this year), Emily Blunt (1983, turned 42 this year), Aziz Ansari (1983, turned 42 this year), Emily Cox (1985, turned 40 this year), Samara Weaving (1992, turned 33 this year), Dakota Fanning (1994, turned 31 this year), James Paxton (1994, turned 31 this year), Cameron Palatas (1994, turned 31 this year), Christian Martyn (2000, turned 25 this year), Emilia Jones (2002, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Stan Laurel (1965, at the age of 74), Esmond Knight (1987, at the age of 80), Philip Terry (1993, at the age of 83), Robert Enrico (2001, at the age of 69), James Colby (2018, at the age of 56), Stanley Donen (2019, at the age of 94), Don Brady (2019, at the age of 85), Katherine Helmond (2019, at the age of 89), John Motson (2023, at the age of 77), Chris Gauthier (2024, at the age of 48)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.