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 | $636,745,858 |
| 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 | $536,625,724 |
| 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 | $636,785,476 |
| 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 | $636,745,858 |
| 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 | $536,625,724 |
| 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, turns 106 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, turns 88 this year), Garth Hudson (1937, died on January 21, 2025 at the age of 87), Wes Craven (1939, died on August 30, 2015 at the age of 76), Sandra Lafferty (1940, turns 85 this year), Fabio Testi (1941, turns 84 this year), Max Wright (1943, died on June 26, 2019 at the age of 75), Richard Fancy (1943, turns 82 this year), Joanna Cassidy (1945, turns 80 this year), Kim Charney (1945, turns 80 this year), Lawrence Wright (1947, turns 78 this year), Snoo Wilson (1948, turns 77 this year), Michael Sorkin (1948, died on March 26, 2020 at the age of 71), Charles Roven (1949, turns 76 this year), Kathryn Harrold (1950, turns 75 this year), Mathieu Carriere (1950, turns 75 this year), Marcel Iures (1951, turns 74 this year), Butch Patrick (1953, turns 72 this year), Caleb Carr (1955, died on May 23, 2024 at the age of 68), Damian Harris (1958, turns 67 this year), Victoria Jackson (1959, turns 66 this year), Apollonia Kotero (1959, turns 66 this year), Olivier Gruner (1960, turns 65 this year), David Yow (1960, turns 65 this year), Christopher Duddy (1961, turns 64 this year), Norma Maldonado (1962, turns 63 this year), Mary-Louise Parker (1964, turns 61 this year), Kevin Dorff (1966, turns 59 this year), Dina Platias (1966, turns 59 this year), Tim Wakefield (1966, died on October 1, 2023 at the age of 57), Aline Brosh McKenna (1967, turns 58 this year), John Ellison Conlee (1968, turns 57 this year), John MacDonald (1968, turns 57 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turns 55 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turns 55 this year), Portia Dawson (1971, turns 54 this year), Jacinda Barrett (1972, turns 53 this year), Matthew Del Negro (1972, turns 53 this year), James Preston Rogers (1972, turns 53 this year), Simon Kinberg (1973, turns 52 this year), Kia Goodwin (1973, turns 52 this year), Angie Cepeda (1974, turns 51 this year), Nick Loeb (1975, turns 50 this year), Sam Worthington (1976, turns 49 this year), Adam Mayfield (1976, turns 49 this year), Edward Furlong (1977, turns 48 this year), Krzysztof Soszynski (1977, turns 48 this year), Michelle Lee (1978, turns 47 this year), Natasha Williams (1978, turns 47 this year), Donna Air (1979, turns 46 this year), Cynthia Stevenson (1982, turns 43 this year), Kerry Rhodes (1982, turns 43 this year), Angell Conwell (1983, turns 42 this year), Hatice Sendil (1983, turns 42 this year), Britt Lower (1985, turns 40 this year), Lily Gladstone (1986, turns 39 this year), Ebony N. Mayo (1990, turns 35 this year), Skyler Day (1991, turns 34 this year), Zuleyka Silver (1991, turns 34 this year), Hallie Kate Eisenberg (1992, turns 33 this year), Charli XCX (1992, turns 33 this year), Jovian Wade (1993, turns 32 this year), Cassidy Gifford (1993, turns 32 this year), Angus Imrie (1994, turns 31 this year), Christina Robinson (1997, turns 28 this year), Kiara Glasco (2001, turns 24 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.