On This Day - August 17
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 17.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | Saturday | $13,591,254 | $105,313,091 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Saturday | $12,469,182 | $636,745,858 |
| 2007 | Superbad | Friday | $12,336,202 | $121,463,226 |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 | Friday | $10,494,145 | $85,028,192 |
| 2003 | Freddy vs. Jason | Sunday | $9,495,000 | $82,622,655 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Saturday | $9,292,108 | $116,632,095 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sunday | $8,894,556 | $191,204,754 |
| 2024 | It Ends With Us | Saturday | $8,864,729 | $148,518,266 |
| 2002 | xXx | Saturday | $8,638,046 | $141,930,000 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $8,035,901 | $227,969,295 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 17.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Superbad | Friday | $12,336,202 | $121,463,226 |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 | Friday | $10,494,145 | $85,028,192 |
| 2018 | Mile 22 | Friday | $5,245,939 | $36,108,758 |
| 2012 | ParaNorman | Friday | $4,598,833 | $56,003,051 |
| 2012 | Sparkle | Friday | $4,521,165 | $24,397,469 |
| 2001 | Rat Race | Friday | $3,540,000 | $56,607,223 |
| 2018 | Alpha | Friday | $3,362,816 | $35,851,379 |
| 2001 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Friday | $2,330,000 | $25,528,495 |
| 2007 | The Invasion | Friday | $2,076,013 | $15,074,191 |
| 2001 | American Outlaws | Friday | $1,600,000 | $13,264,986 |
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 17.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | $42,003,361 | $105,313,091 |
| 2003 | Freddy vs. Jason | $36,428,066 | $82,622,655 |
| 2007 | Superbad | $33,052,411 | $121,463,226 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $30,003,064 | $636,745,858 |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 | $28,591,370 | $85,028,192 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $28,523,147 | $191,204,754 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $26,510,140 | $174,532,921 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | $25,812,796 | $110,515,313 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $25,115,564 | $333,714,112 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | $24,637,312 | $116,632,095 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Monty Woolley (1888, died on May 6, 1963 at the age of 74), Mae West (1893, died on November 22, 1980 at the age of 87), Evelyn Ankers (1918, died on August 29, 1985 at the age of 67), Maureen O’Hara (1920, died on October 24, 2015 at the age of 95), Julius Harris (1923, died on October 17, 2004 at the age of 81), Trina Robbins (1938, died on April 10, 2024 at the age of 85), Anthony Valentine (1939, died on December 2, 2015 at the age of 76), Robert De Niro (1943, turns 82 this year), Martha Coolidge (1946, turns 79 this year), Shane Briant (1946, died on May 27, 2021 at the age of 74), Jennifer Rhodes (1947, turns 78 this year), Julian Fellowes (1949, turns 76 this year), Pablo Guzman (1950, died on November 26, 2023 at the age of 73), Richard Hunt (1951, died on January 7, 1992 at the age of 40), Robert Joy (1951, turns 74 this year), Noni Hazlehurst (1953, turns 72 this year), Ken Kwapis (1957, turns 68 this year), Tim Bagley (1957, turns 68 this year), Carole Bouquet (1957, turns 68 this year), Belinda Carlisle (1958, turns 67 this year), Kate McNeil (1959, turns 66 this year), Sean Penn (1960, turns 65 this year), Larry B. Scott (1961, turns 64 this year), John Marshall Jones (1962, turns 63 this year), Don McKellar (1963, turns 62 this year), David Conrad (1967, turns 58 this year), Helen McCrory (1968, died on April 16, 2021 at the age of 52), Donnie Wahlberg (1969, turns 56 this year), Tammy Townsend (1970, turns 55 this year), Uhm Jung-hwa (1971, turns 54 this year), Natalie Gold (1976, turns 49 this year), Dana Daurey (1976, turns 49 this year), Mark Salling (1982, died on January 30, 2018 at the age of 35), Yu Aoi (1985, turns 40 this year), Brock Kelly (1985, turns 40 this year), Erika Toda (1988, turns 37 this year), Brady Corbet (1988, turns 37 this year), Frederick Lau (1989, turns 36 this year), Rachel Hurd-Wood (1990, turns 35 this year), Austin Butler (1991, turns 34 this year), Taissa Farmiga (1994, turns 31 this year)
Died on this day in history: Richard Barthelmess (1963, at the age of 68), Barney Phillips (1982, at the age of 68), Clarence Brown (1987, at the age of 97), Pearl Bailey (1990, at the age of 72), Yvonne Craig (2015, at the age of 78), Arthur Hiller (2016, at the age of 92), Sonny Landham (2017, at the age of 76), Nishikanth Kamat (2020, at the age of 50)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.