On This Day - February 24
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | Saturday | $47,553,478 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Sunday | $15,356,250 | $160,799,505 |
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Saturday | $9,034,728 | $115,802,596 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Friday | $8,329,121 | $214,506,909 |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Saturday | $7,280,000 | $165,092,266 |
| 2018 | Game Night | Saturday | $6,977,434 | $69,179,066 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Jesus Revolution | Friday | $6,965,536 | $52,102,987 |
| 2012 | Tyler Perry's Good Deeds | Friday | $5,312,688 | $35,025,791 |
| 2012 | Wanderlust | Friday | $2,172,165 | $17,288,155 |
| 2012 | Gone | Friday | $1,662,955 | $11,682,205 |
| 2006 | Running Scared | Friday | $1,000,000 | $6,855,137 |
| 2017 | Rock Dog | Friday | $899,598 | $9,420,546 |
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 24.
| 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 |
| 2017 | Get Out | $33,377,060 | $175,837,935 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $31,964,803 | $214,506,909 |
| 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | $30,030,661 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | $24,476,632 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | $23,260,790 | $64,670,240 |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | $22,874,936 | $72,266,306 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | $20,067,443 | $115,802,596 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | $19,208,097 | $175,750,384 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Marjorie Main (1890, died on April 10, 1975 at the age of 85), Richard Thorpe (1896, died on May 1, 1991 at the age of 95), Abe Vigoda (1921, died on January 26, 2016 at the age of 94), Steven Hill (1922, died on August 23, 2016 at the age of 94), Emmanuelle Riva (1927, died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 89), Dominic Chianese Sr. (1931, turned 93 this year), John Vernon (1932, died on February 1, 2005 at the age of 72), Michel Legrand (1932, died on January 26, 2019 at the age of 86), James Farentino (1938, died on January 24, 2012 at the age of 73), Marisa Mell (1939, turned 85 this year), Paul Jones (1942, turned 82 this year), Jenny O Hara (1942, turned 82 this year), Pablo Milanes (1943, died on November 22, 2022 at the age of 79), Barry Bostwick (1945, turned 79 this year), Mike Hodge (1947, died on September 9, 2017 at the age of 70), Edward James Olmos (1947, turned 77 this year), Dennis Waterman (1948, died on May 8, 2022 at the age of 74), Helen Shaver (1951, turned 73 this year), Debra Jo Rupp (1951, turned 73 this year), Steve Jobs (1955, died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56), Alessandro D'Alatri (1955, died on May 3, 2023 at the age of 68), Howard Bragman (1956, died on February 11, 2023 at the age of 66), Mark Moses (1958, turned 66 this year), Beth Broderick (1959, turned 65 this year), Emilio Rivera (1961, turned 63 this year), Kasi Lemmons (1961, turned 63 this year), Todd Field (1964, turned 60 this year), Bas Rutten (1965, turned 59 this year), Billy Zane (1966, turned 58 this year), Ben Miller (1966, turned 58 this year), Karina Logue (1966, turned 58 this year), Martha Kelly (1968, turned 56 this year), Jonathan Ward (1970, turned 54 this year), Gillian Flynn (1971, turned 53 this year), James Bachman (1972, turned 52 this year), Bonnie Somerville (1974, turned 50 this year), Kirill Karo (1975, turned 49 this year), Kate Mulvany (1977, turned 47 this year), Nicole Lyn (1978, turned 46 this year), Wilson Bethel (1984, turned 40 this year), Jessica-Jane Stafford (1985, turned 39 this year), Bryce Papenbrook (1986, turned 38 this year), Tina Desai (1987, turned 37 this year), Alexander Koch (1988, turned 36 this year), Daniel Kaluuya (1989, turned 35 this year), O'Shea Jackson, Jr. (1991, turned 33 this year), Laurie Kynaston (1994, turned 30 this year), Ramona Marquez (2001, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Conrad Nagel (1970, at the age of 72), Henny Youngman (1998, at the age of 91), Alberto Sordi (2003, at the age of 82), John Randolph (2004, at the age of 88), Dennis Weaver (2006, at the age of 81), Don Knotts (2006, at the age of 81), Bruce Bennett (2007, at the age of 100), Harold Ramis (2014, at the age of 69), Bud Luckey (2018, at the age of 83), Sridevi (2018, at the age of 54), Paul Blackwell (2019, at the age of 64), Ronald Pickup (2021, at the age of 80), Alan Robert Murray (2021, at the age of 65), Sally Kellerman (2022, at the age of 84), Gordon Pinsent (2023, at the age of 92), Juraj Jakubisko (2023, at the age of 84), Kenneth Mitchell (2024, at the age of 49)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.