On This Day - August 13
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Saturday | $17,530,577 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | Friday | $16,700,000 | $80,281,096 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Friday | $13,330,881 | $103,068,524 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Saturday | $11,397,989 | $97,670,358 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Saturday | $10,927,862 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Sunday | $10,637,908 | $636,785,476 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Friday | $10,445,933 | $121,626,598 |
| 2011 | The Help | Saturday | $9,996,887 | $169,705,587 |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Friday | $8,456,809 | $80,574,010 |
| 2016 | Pete’s Dragon | Saturday | $8,389,791 | $76,233,151 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | Friday | $16,700,000 | $80,281,096 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Friday | $13,330,881 | $103,068,524 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Friday | $10,445,933 | $121,626,598 |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Friday | $8,456,809 | $80,574,010 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Wednesday | $6,503,141 | $110,515,313 |
| 1999 | Bowfinger | Friday | $5,830,000 | $66,458,769 |
| 2014 | Let’s Be Cops | Wednesday | $5,205,858 | $82,390,774 |
| 2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | Friday | $4,522,890 | $33,085,015 |
| 2021 | Don’t Breathe 2 | Friday | $4,393,857 | $32,638,038 |
| 2004 | Yu-Gi-Oh | Friday | $4,350,000 | $19,762,690 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 13.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $43,536,013 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $38,291,056 | $80,281,096 |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation | $35,006,404 | $102,092,201 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | $34,825,135 | $103,068,524 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | $34,263,534 | $97,670,358 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $33,833,294 | $636,785,476 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | $28,365,416 | $121,626,598 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $27,832,307 | $176,760,185 |
| 2011 | The Help | $26,044,590 | $169,705,587 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $25,764,991 | $293,506,292 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: Untitled Blumhouse Event Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bert Lahr (1895, died on December 4, 1967 at the age of 72), Regis Toomey (1898, died on October 12, 1991 at the age of 93), Alfred Hitchcock (1899, died on April 29, 1980 at the age of 80), John Beal (1909, turns 116 this year), Kurt Kasznar (1913, died on August 6, 1979 at the age of 65), Rita Johnson (1913, died on October 31, 1965 at the age of 52), Buck Kartalian (1922, died on May 24, 2016 at the age of 93), Madhur Jaffrey (1933, turns 92 this year), Lillian Hurst (1943, turns 82 this year), Kevin Tighe (1944, turns 81 this year), Gretchen Corbett (1945, turns 80 this year), Peter Iacangelo (1948, turns 77 this year), Jane Carr (1950, turns 75 this year), Brandon Smith (1952, died on October 27, 2023 at the age of 71), Paul Greengrass (1955, turns 70 this year), Richard Hawley (1955, turns 70 this year), David Crane (1957, turns 68 this year), Kathleen Gati (1957, turns 68 this year), Hank Cheyne (1958, turns 67 this year), Dawnn Lewis (1961, turns 64 this year), John Slattery (1962, turns 63 this year), Sridevi (1963, died on February 24, 2018 at the age of 54), Debi Mazar (1964, turns 61 this year), Deborah Falconer (1965, turns 60 this year), Jacinto Taras Riddick (1965, turns 60 this year), Quinn Cummings (1967, turns 58 this year), Heike Makatsch (1971, turns 54 this year), Moritz Bleibtreu (1971, turns 54 this year), David Monahan (1971, turns 54 this year), Rolando Molina (1971, turns 54 this year), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (1971, turns 54 this year), Crystal Allen (1972, turns 53 this year), Michael Sinterniklaas (1972, turns 53 this year), James Carpinello (1975, turns 50 this year), Grégory Fitoussi (1976, turns 49 this year), Jody Thompson (1976, turns 49 this year), Lee Quigley (1976, turns 49 this year), Damian O'Hare (1977, turns 48 this year), Euan Morton (1977, turns 48 this year), Kathryn Fiore (1979, turns 46 this year), Kasia Smutniak (1979, turns 46 this year), Alex Gonzalez (1980, turns 45 this year), Sebastian Stan (1982, turns 43 this year), Tatiana Pauhofova (1983, turns 42 this year), Jasmine Burke (1983, turns 42 this year), Mapuana Makia (1983, turns 42 this year), Ashley Spillers (1986, turns 39 this year), Wesley Taylor (1986, turns 39 this year), Catherine Combs (1990, turns 35 this year), Freya Mavor (1993, turns 32 this year), Connor Kalopsis (2003, turns 22 this year)
Died on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1946, at the age of 79), Jane Darwell (1967, at the age of 87), Helen Mack (1986, at the age of 72), Tony Jay (2006, at the age of 73), Joyce Gordon (2008, at the age of 73), Kenny Baker (2016, at the age of 81), Joseph Bologna (2017, at the age of 82), John Carter (2018, at the age of 95), Ash Christian (2020, at the age of 35), Clarence Avant (2023, at the age of 92), Sergio Donati (2024, at the age of 91)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.