On This Day - March 21
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | Friday | $22,784,019 | $150,947,895 |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Saturday | $19,686,052 | $130,179,072 |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Tuesday | $17,878,785 | $504,014,165 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | Friday | $16,255,317 | $87,203,963 |
| 2015 | Cinderella | Saturday | $15,287,500 | $201,151,353 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | Friday | $10,164,609 | $154,529,439 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Sunday | $9,928,104 | $334,191,110 |
| 2009 | Knowing | Saturday | $9,872,734 | $79,957,634 |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Friday | $8,115,913 | $41,975,388 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Saturday | $8,003,861 | $674,460,013 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | Friday | $22,784,019 | $150,947,895 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | Friday | $16,255,317 | $87,203,963 |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Friday | $8,115,913 | $41,975,388 |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Friday | $5,454,567 | $33,685,268 |
| 2008 | Shutter | Friday | $4,666,802 | $25,928,550 |
| 2014 | Muppets Most Wanted | Friday | $4,662,265 | $51,178,893 |
| 2008 | Drillbit Taylor | Friday | $4,099,971 | $32,862,104 |
| 2014 | God’s Not Dead | Friday | $2,817,894 | $60,755,732 |
| 2003 | View from the Top | Friday | $2,566,000 | $15,614,000 |
| 2003 | Piglet's Big Movie | Friday | $1,735,008 | $23,103,423 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 21.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | $54,607,747 | $150,947,895 |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | $52,263,680 | $130,179,072 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | $42,206,415 | $87,203,963 |
| 2015 | Cinderella | $34,967,659 | $201,151,353 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $34,189,969 | $334,191,110 |
| 1997 | Liar Liar | $31,423,025 | $181,410,615 |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | $26,722,575 | $58,990,765 |
| 2009 | Knowing | $24,604,751 | $79,957,634 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | $24,590,596 | $154,529,439 |
| 2010 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | $22,126,166 | $64,003,625 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Eric Rohmer (1920, died on January 11, 2010 at the age of 89), Russ Meyer (1922, died on September 18, 2004 at the age of 82), Peter Brook (1925, died on July 2, 2022 at the age of 97), Al Freeman, Jr. (1931, died on August 9, 2012 at the age of 81), Kathleen Widdoes (1939, turned 86 this year), Timothy Dalton (1946, turned 79 this year), Slavoj Zizek (1949, turned 76 this year), Haydn Gwynne (1957, died on October 20, 2023 at the age of 66), Gary Oldman (1958, turned 67 this year), Rosie O'Donnell (1962, turned 63 this year), Matthew Broderick (1962, turned 63 this year), Alfred Lutter III (1962, turned 63 this year), Jill Schoelen (1963, turned 62 this year), Paul Ronan (1965, turned 60 this year), Cynthia Geary (1965, turned 60 this year), Jaye Davidson (1968, turned 57 this year), Greg Ellis (1968, turned 57 this year), Karyn Kusama (1968, turned 57 this year), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (1972, turned 53 this year), Vanessa Branch (1973, turned 52 this year), Rhys Darby (1974, turned 51 this year), Laura Allen (1974, turned 51 this year), Joseph Mawle (1974, turned 51 this year), Justin Pierce (1975, died on July 10, 2000 at the age of 25), Rachael MacFarlane (1976, turned 49 this year), Ryan Bittle (1976, turned 49 this year), Sam Troughton (1977, turned 48 this year), Rani Mukerji (1978, turned 47 this year), Young Noble (1978, died on July 4, 2025 at the age of 47), Narges Rashidi (1980, turned 45 this year), Rini Bell (1981, turned 44 this year), Santino Fontana (1982, turned 43 this year), Jennifer Sears (1982, turned 43 this year), Max Pomeranc (1984, turned 41 this year), Sonequa Martin-Green (1985, turned 40 this year), Scott Eastwood (1986, turned 39 this year), Melanie Stone (1988, turned 37 this year), Takeru Satoh (1989, turned 36 this year), Suraj Sharma (1993, turned 32 this year), Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994, turned 31 this year), RJ Cyler (1995, turned 30 this year), Martina Stoessel (1997, turned 28 this year), Jace Norman (2000, turned 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Lilyan Tashman (1934, at the age of 37), Rudolf Lettinger (1937, at the age of 71), Robert Preston (1987, at the age of 68), John Ireland (1992, at the age of 78), Ludmilla Tchérina (2004, at the age of 79), Bobby Short (2005, at the age of 80), James Rebhorn (2014, at the age of 65), Alberta Watson (2015, at the age of 60), Peter Brown (2016, at the age of 80), Ralph Riach (2022, at the age of 82), Lawrence Dane (2022, at the age of 84), Terry Norris (2023, at the age of 92), Peter Werner (2023, at the age of 76), Gini Santos (2024, at the age of 76), George Foreman (2025, at the age of 76), Rakesh Pandey (2025, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.