On This Day - March 28
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | Saturday | $24,284,775 | $198,351,526 |
| 2015 | Home | Saturday | $21,883,869 | $177,397,510 |
| 2014 | Noah | Friday | $15,183,234 | $101,200,044 |
| 2016 | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice | Monday | $15,040,496 | $330,360,194 |
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Sunday | $14,101,190 | $217,581,232 |
| 2015 | Get Hard | Saturday | $13,116,160 | $90,411,453 |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Thursday | $10,506,875 | $122,523,060 |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Tuesday | $9,473,259 | $504,014,165 |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Saturday | $9,472,071 | $130,179,072 |
| 2009 | The Haunting in Connecticut | Saturday | $8,832,769 | $55,389,516 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Noah | Friday | $15,183,234 | $101,200,044 |
| 2008 | 21 | Friday | $8,655,041 | $81,159,365 |
| 2003 | Head of State | Friday | $4,453,326 | $37,788,228 |
| 2003 | The Core | Friday | $3,976,502 | $31,111,260 |
| 2003 | Basic | Friday | $3,736,815 | $26,599,248 |
| 2008 | Superhero Movie | Friday | $3,472,023 | $26,638,520 |
| 2014 | Sabotage | Friday | $1,832,067 | $10,508,518 |
| 2008 | Stop-Loss | Friday | $1,674,770 | $10,915,744 |
| 2014 | Cesar Chavez | Friday | $1,029,545 | $5,571,497 |
| 2008 | Run, Fatboy, Run | Friday | $786,916 | $6,003,262 |
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 28.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | $59,321,095 | $198,351,526 |
| 2015 | Home | $52,107,731 | $177,397,510 |
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | $43,732,319 | $217,581,232 |
| 2014 | Noah | $43,720,472 | $101,200,044 |
| 2015 | Get Hard | $33,803,253 | $90,411,453 |
| 2004 | Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed | $29,438,331 | $84,185,387 |
| 2014 | Divergent | $25,619,578 | $150,947,895 |
| 1997 | Liar Liar | $25,377,435 | $181,410,615 |
| 2008 | 21 | $24,105,943 | $81,159,365 |
| 2009 | The Haunting in Connecticut | $23,004,765 | $55,389,516 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: The Woman in the Yard
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Louis Wolheim (1880, died on February 18, 1931 at the age of 50), Edward Anhalt (1914, died on September 3, 2000 at the age of 86), Antony Holland (1920, died on July 29, 2015 at the age of 95), Dirk Bogarde (1921, died on May 8, 1999 at the age of 78), Alberto Grimaldi (1925, died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95), Albert S. Ruddy (1930, died on May 25, 2024 at the age of 94), Michael Parkinson (1935, died on August 16, 2023 at the age of 88), Mike Newell (1942, turned 82 this year), Richard Eyre (1943, turned 81 this year), Conchata Ferrell (1943, died on October 12, 2020 at the age of 77), Ken Howard (1944, died on March 23, 2016 at the age of 71), Jimmy Wang Yu (1944, died on April 5, 2022 at the age of 78), Dianne Wiest (1948, turned 76 this year), Margaret Whitton (1949, died on December 4, 2016 at the age of 67), Pete Kozachik (1951, died on September 12, 2023 at the age of 72), Vladimir Yordanoff (1954, died on October 6, 2020 at the age of 66), Reba McEntire (1955, turned 69 this year), Paul Eiding (1957, turned 67 this year), Chris Barrie (1960, turned 64 this year), Orla Brady (1961, turned 63 this year), Alexandra Billings (1962, turned 62 this year), Max Perlich (1968, turned 56 this year), Brett Ratner (1969, turned 55 this year), Siena Goines (1969, turned 55 this year), Vince Vaughn (1970, turned 54 this year), Jennifer Weiner (1970, turned 54 this year), Nick Frost (1972, turned 52 this year), David Vadim (1972, turned 52 this year), Richard Kelly (1975, turned 49 this year), Mandy Moore (1976, turned 48 this year), Radu Jude (1977, turned 47 this year), Cho Seung-Woo (1980, turned 44 this year), Julia Stiles (1981, turned 43 this year), Dan Petronijevic (1981, turned 43 this year), Vica Kerekes (1981, turned 43 this year), Gareth David-Lloyd (1981, turned 43 this year), Lady Gaga (1986, turned 38 this year), Amaia Salamanca (1986, turned 38 this year), Jimmy Wong (1987, turned 37 this year), Laura Harrier (1990, turned 34 this year), Alexi Pappas (1990, turned 34 this year), Amy Bruckner (1991, turned 33 this year), Berta Vazquez (1992, turned 32 this year), Daisy Bevan (1992, turned 32 this year), Ryan Simpkins (1998, turned 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Richard Arlen (1976, at the age of 76), Patrick Troughton (1987, at the age of 67), Robert J. Wilke (1989, at the age of 74), Peter Ustinov (2004, at the age of 82), Maurice Jarre (2009, at the age of 84), Richard Griffiths (2013, at the age of 65), Lorenzo Semple Jr. (2014, at the age of 91), Miroslav Ondříček (2015, at the age of 80), Gene Saks (2015, at the age of 93), Igor Khait (2016, at the age of 93), James Noble (2016, at the age of 94), Darryl Warren (2018, at the age of 72), John Callahan (2020, at the age of 66), Matthew Faber (2020, at the age of 47), Marvin J. Chomsky (2022, at the age of 92), Louis Gossett Jr. (2024, at the age of 87)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.