On This Day - August 2
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Saturday | $30,989,857 | $333,714,112 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Friday | $28,001,874 | $636,730,798 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Friday | $23,605,520 | $173,956,935 |
| 2002 | Signs | Friday | $20,884,787 | $227,969,295 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Saturday | $17,191,150 | $534,235,491 |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation | Sunday | $15,566,537 | $195,042,377 |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Saturday | $14,626,400 | $102,491,776 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Wednesday | $12,852,230 | $636,238,421 |
| 2003 | American Wedding | Saturday | $11,308,180 | $104,354,205 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Friday | $11,204,815 | $543,638,043 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Friday | $23,605,520 | $173,956,935 |
| 2002 | Signs | Friday | $20,884,787 | $227,969,295 |
| 2023 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Wednesday | $10,202,275 | $118,700,272 |
| 2024 | Trap | Friday | $6,614,368 | $42,777,281 |
| 2002 | The Master of Disguise | Friday | $4,683,434 | $40,363,530 |
| 2002 | Martin Lawrence Live: RunTelDat | Friday | $2,685,385 | $19,184,820 |
| 2024 | Harold and the Purple Crayon | Friday | $2,485,917 | $17,640,924 |
| 2024 | The Firing Squad | Friday | $332,100 | $1,757,110 |
| 2013 | The Spectacular Now | Friday | $69,876 | $6,852,971 |
| 2019 | Luce | Friday | $48,986 | $2,010,613 |
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 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $96,809,328 | $636,730,798 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $94,320,883 | $333,714,112 |
| 2002 | Signs | $60,116,619 | $227,969,295 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | $60,038,950 | $173,956,935 |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation | $55,520,089 | $195,042,377 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | $42,664,219 | $534,235,491 |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | $40,457,770 | $102,491,776 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | $38,520,022 | $543,638,043 |
| 2003 | American Wedding | $33,369,440 | $104,354,205 |
| 2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | $31,119,108 | $213,117,789 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Myrna Loy (1905, died on December 14, 1993 at the age of 88), Ruth Nelson (1905, died on September 12, 1992 at the age of 87), Ann Dvorak (1911, died on December 10, 1979 at the age of 68), Beatrice Straight (1914, died on April 7, 2001 at the age of 86), Gary Merrill (1915, died on March 5, 1990 at the age of 74), Nehemiah Persoff (1919, turned 105 this year), Carroll O’Connor (1924, died on June 21, 2001 at the age of 76), John Dexter (1925, died on March 23, 1990 at the age of 64), Arthur Marks (1927, died on November 13, 2019 at the age of 92), Bernard L. Kowalski (1929, died on October 26, 2007 at the age of 78), Peter O'Toole (1932, died on December 14, 2013 at the age of 81), John Cohen (1932, died on September 16, 2019 at the age of 87), Tom Bell (1933, died on October 4, 2006 at the age of 73), Maria Angela Giordano (1937, turned 87 this year), Wes Craven (1939, died on August 30, 2015 at the age of 76), Sandra Lafferty (1940, turned 84 this year), Fabio Testi (1941, turned 83 this year), Max Wright (1943, died on June 26, 2019 at the age of 75), Richard Fancy (1943, turned 81 this year), Joanna Cassidy (1945, turned 79 this year), Kim Charney (1945, turned 79 this year), Lawrence Wright (1947, turned 77 this year), Snoo Wilson (1948, turned 76 this year), Michael Sorkin (1948, died on March 26, 2020 at the age of 71), Charles Roven (1949, turned 75 this year), Kathryn Harrold (1950, turned 74 this year), Mathieu Carriere (1950, turned 74 this year), Marcel Iures (1951, turned 73 this year), Butch Patrick (1953, turned 71 this year), Caleb Carr (1955, died on May 23, 2024 at the age of 68), Damian Harris (1958, turned 66 this year), Victoria Jackson (1959, turned 65 this year), Apollonia Kotero (1959, turned 65 this year), Olivier Gruner (1960, turned 64 this year), David Yow (1960, turned 64 this year), Christopher Duddy (1961, turned 63 this year), Norma Maldonado (1962, turned 62 this year), Mary-Louise Parker (1964, turned 60 this year), Kevin Dorff (1966, turned 58 this year), Dina Platias (1966, turned 58 this year), Tim Wakefield (1966, died on October 1, 2023 at the age of 57), Aline Brosh McKenna (1967, turned 57 this year), John Ellison Conlee (1968, turned 56 this year), John MacDonald (1968, turned 56 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turned 54 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turned 54 this year), Portia Dawson (1971, turned 53 this year), Jacinda Barrett (1972, turned 52 this year), Matthew Del Negro (1972, turned 52 this year), James Preston Rogers (1972, turned 52 this year), Simon Kinberg (1973, turned 51 this year), Kia Goodwin (1973, turned 51 this year), Angie Cepeda (1974, turned 50 this year), Nick Loeb (1975, turned 49 this year), Sam Worthington (1976, turned 48 this year), Adam Mayfield (1976, turned 48 this year), Edward Furlong (1977, turned 47 this year), Krzysztof Soszynski (1977, turned 47 this year), Michelle Lee (1978, turned 46 this year), Natasha Williams (1978, turned 46 this year), Donna Air (1979, turned 45 this year), Cynthia Stevenson (1982, turned 42 this year), Kerry Rhodes (1982, turned 42 this year), Angell Conwell (1983, turned 41 this year), Hatice Sendil (1983, turned 41 this year), Britt Lower (1985, turned 39 this year), Lily Gladstone (1986, turned 38 this year), Ebony N. Mayo (1990, turned 34 this year), Skyler Day (1991, turned 33 this year), Zuleyka Silver (1991, turned 33 this year), Hallie Kate Eisenberg (1992, turned 32 this year), Charli XCX (1992, turned 32 this year), Jovian Wade (1993, turned 31 this year), Cassidy Gifford (1993, turned 31 this year), Angus Imrie (1994, turned 30 this year), Christina Robinson (1997, turned 27 this year), Kiara Glasco (2001, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean-Pierre Melville (1973, at the age of 55), Fritz Lang (1976, at the age of 85), Al Adamson (1995, at the age of 66), Richard Pearson (2011, at the age of 93), David Huddleston (2016, at the age of 85), Terence Bayler (2016, at the age of 86), Leslie Randall (2020, at the age of 95), Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2023, at the age of 95)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.