On This Day - August 20
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Saturday | $8,646,691 | $325,100,054 |
| 2011 | The Help | Saturday | $8,099,476 | $169,705,587 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | Saturday | $7,994,450 | $109,449,237 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Friday | $7,163,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Friday | $7,022,128 | $41,814,863 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Saturday | $6,728,834 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | Sunday | $6,510,380 | $72,541,501 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Sunday | $6,293,418 | $636,785,476 |
| 2005 | Red Eye | Saturday | $6,000,000 | $57,891,803 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Saturday | $5,859,038 | $97,670,358 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Exorcist: The Beginning | Friday | $7,022,128 | $41,814,863 |
| 2004 | Without a Paddle | Friday | $4,800,000 | $58,156,435 |
| 2021 | PAW Patrol: The Movie | Friday | $4,523,426 | $40,127,371 |
| 2010 | Lottery Ticket | Friday | $3,860,890 | $24,719,879 |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | Friday | $3,600,707 | $25,003,155 |
| 1999 | Mickey Blue Eyes | Friday | $3,135,000 | $33,864,342 |
| 2010 | The Switch | Friday | $2,701,800 | $27,758,465 |
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Friday | $2,672,640 | $29,197,642 |
| 1999 | Universal Soldier II: The Return | Friday | $1,550,000 | $10,447,421 |
| 1999 | Teaching Mrs. Tingle | Friday | $1,235,000 | $8,959,883 |
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 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | $25,030,225 | $72,541,501 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $23,950,008 | $293,506,292 |
| 1995 | Mortal Kombat | $23,283,887 | $70,433,227 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | $21,422,815 | $109,449,237 |
| 2017 | The Hitman’s Bodyguard | $21,384,504 | $75,468,583 |
| 2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) | $21,124,049 | $32,132,374 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $21,030,328 | $636,785,476 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $20,855,401 | $325,100,054 |
| 2011 | The Help | $20,018,659 | $169,705,587 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | $18,504,022 | $121,626,598 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Hell House LLC: Lineage
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: H.P. Lovecraft (1890, died on March 15, 1937 at the age of 46), Alan Reed (1907, died on June 14, 1977 at the age of 69), André Morell (1909, turns 116 this year), Bernard Archard (1916, died on May 1, 2008 at the age of 91), Walter Bernstein (1919, died on January 22, 2021 at the age of 101), Buddy Van Horn (1928, died on May 11, 2021 at the age of 92), Miriam Colon (1936, died on March 3, 2017 at the age of 80), Andrey Konchalovskiy (1937, turns 88 this year), Isaac Hayes (1942, died on August 10, 2008 at the age of 65), Sylvester McCoy (1943, turns 82 this year), Ray Wise (1947, turns 78 this year), John Noble (1948, turns 77 this year), Robert Plant (1948, turns 77 this year), Patrick Kilpatrick (1949, turns 76 this year), Max Alexander (1953, died on November 2, 2016 at the age of 63), Peter Horton (1953, turns 72 this year), Theresa Saldana (1954, died on June 6, 2016 at the age of 61), Al Roker (1954, turns 71 this year), Jay Acovone (1955, turns 70 this year), Joan Allen (1956, turns 69 this year), David O. Russell (1958, turns 67 this year), Patricia Rozema (1958, turns 67 this year), Linda Manz (1961, died on August 14, 2020 at the age of 58), James Marsters (1962, turns 63 this year), Geoffrey Blake (1962, turns 63 this year), Ravil Isyanov (1962, died on September 30, 2021 at the age of 59), Justina Vail (1963, turns 62 this year), Markus Flanagan (1964, turns 61 this year), Colin Cunningham (1966, turns 59 this year), Mark Borchardt (1966, turns 59 this year), Paolo Genovese (1966, turns 59 this year), Miranda de Pencier (1968, turns 57 this year), Billy Gardell (1969, turns 56 this year), Fred Durst (1970, turns 55 this year), Adrian Bower (1970, turns 55 this year), Ke Huy Quan (1971, turns 54 this year), David Williams (1971, turns 54 this year), Chaney Kley (1972, turns 53 this year), Drew Waters (1973, turns 52 this year), Bill Watterson (1973, turns 52 this year), Amy Adams (1974, turns 51 this year), Misha Collins (1974, turns 51 this year), Randeep Hooda (1976, turns 49 this year), Noah Bean (1978, turns 47 this year), Mike Faiola (1978, turns 47 this year), Benjamin Barnes (1981, turns 44 this year), Michael Rady (1981, turns 44 this year), Ali Liebert (1981, turns 44 this year), Matthew Risch (1981, turns 44 this year), Meghan Ory (1982, turns 43 this year), Jamil Walker Smith (1982, turns 43 this year), Neil Chisholm (1982, died on June 18, 2023 at the age of 40), Andrew Garfield (1983, turns 42 this year), Amrita Puri (1983, turns 42 this year), Brant Daugherty (1985, turns 40 this year), Nikki Soohoo (1988, turns 37 this year), Win Morisaki (1990, turns 35 this year), Demi Lovato (1992, turns 33 this year), Liana Liberato (1995, turns 30 this year), Fatima Ptacek (2000, turns 25 this year), Billy Jenkins (2007, turns 18 this year)
Died on this day in history: Eddy Waller (1977, at the age of 88), Kim Stanley (2001, at the age of 76), Phyllis Diller (2012, at the age of 95), Elmore Leonard (2013, at the age of 90), Ted Post (2013, at the age of 95), Jerry Lewis (2017, at the age of 91), Gordon Williams (2017, at the age of 83), Craig Zadan (2018, at the age of 69), Brian Murray (2018, at the age of 80), Leon Vitali (2022, at the age of 74), John Clegg (2024, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.