On This Day - August 31
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Sunday | $7,015,565 | $333,714,112 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Saturday | $5,863,964 | $636,745,858 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Friday | $5,836,591 | $174,532,921 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Saturday | $5,561,003 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $5,018,711 | $227,969,295 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Sunday | $4,688,529 | $191,204,754 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | Saturday | $4,553,796 | $150,394,119 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Sunday | $4,514,000 | $35,623,801 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | Friday | $10,896,610 | $58,269,151 |
| 2012 | The Possession | Friday | $6,078,660 | $49,130,588 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | Friday | $4,324,000 | $37,904,175 |
| 2001 | O (Othello) | Friday | $1,958,000 | $16,017,403 |
| 2007 | Death Sentence | Friday | $1,369,290 | $9,534,258 |
| 2018 | Kin | Friday | $1,056,814 | $5,718,096 |
| 2011 | The Debt | Wednesday | $970,532 | $31,177,548 |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | Wednesday | $929,829 | $33,579,798 |
| 2018 | Ya Veremos | Friday | $527,474 | $4,165,949 |
| 2011 | Bodyguard | Wednesday | $192,622 | $1,834,384 |
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 31.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Halloween | $26,362,367 | $58,269,151 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $21,964,345 | $174,532,921 |
| 2012 | The Possession | $17,732,480 | $49,130,588 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,082,262 | $333,714,112 |
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | $15,815,497 | $28,873,374 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $15,469,312 | $636,745,858 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | $15,269,324 | $35,623,801 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | $14,878,286 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | $13,440,774 | $227,969,295 |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers | $13,106,108 | $37,904,175 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Fredric March (1897, died on April 14, 1975 at the age of 77), Richard Basehart (1914, turns 111 this year), Joan Barclay (1914, died on November 22, 2002 at the age of 88), Alan Jay Lerner (1918, died on June 14, 1986 at the age of 67), G.D. Spradlin (1920, died on July 24, 2011 at the age of 90), Buddy Hackett (1924, died on June 30, 2003 at the age of 78), Maurice Pialat (1925, died on January 11, 2003 at the age of 77), James Coburn (1928, died on November 18, 2002 at the age of 74), Charles Kay (1930, turns 95 this year), Noble Willingham (1931, died on January 17, 2004 at the age of 72), Janusz Majewski (1931, died on January 10, 2024 at the age of 92), Warren Berlinger (1937, died on December 2, 2020 at the age of 83), Jack Thompson (1940, turns 85 this year), Larry Hankin (1940, turns 85 this year), Lee Bryant (1945, turns 80 this year), Van Morrison (1945, turns 80 this year), Itzhak Perlman (1945, turns 80 this year), Mona Marshall (1947, turns 78 this year), Lowell Ganz (1948, turns 77 this year), Richard Gere (1949, turns 76 this year), Stephen McKinley Henderson (1949, turns 76 this year), Julie Brown (1954, turns 71 this year), Melissa Prophet (1956, turns 69 this year), Mark Mangini (1956, turns 69 this year), Gina Schock (1957, turns 68 this year), John Cameron (1958, turns 67 this year), Lisa Waltz (1961, turns 64 this year), Leonard L. Thomas (1961, turns 64 this year), Dee Bradley Baker (1962, turns 63 this year), Nick Reding (1962, turns 63 this year), Jeff Hochendoner (1964, turns 61 this year), Daniel Bernhardt (1965, turns 60 this year), Jaime P. Gomez (1965, turns 60 this year), Céline Bonnier (1965, turns 60 this year), Jonathan Cake (1967, turns 58 this year), Jonathan LaPaglia (1969, turns 56 this year), Jeff Russo (1969, turns 56 this year), Phina Oruche (1969, turns 56 this year), Zack Ward (1970, turns 55 this year), Debbie Gibson (1970, turns 55 this year), Chris Tucker (1971, turns 54 this year), Jason Presson (1971, turns 54 this year), Marc Webb (1974, turns 51 this year), Sara Ramirez (1975, turns 50 this year), Lucy Speed (1976, turns 49 this year), Mike Erwin (1978, turns 47 this year), Leo Bill (1980, turns 45 this year), Joe Swanberg (1981, turns 44 this year), Joshua Close (1981, turns 44 this year), Niharika Singh (1982, turns 43 this year), Chad Hartigan (1982, turns 43 this year), Ryan Kelley (1986, turns 39 this year), Brent Morin (1986, turns 39 this year), Spencer Klein (1986, turns 39 this year), Johnny Wactor (1986, died on May 25, 2024 at the age of 37), Chelsea Edmundson (1988, turns 37 this year), Holly Earl (1992, turns 33 this year)
Died on this day in history: Dennis O’Keefe (1968, at the age of 60), John Ford (1973, at the age of 79), Dodi Fayed (1997, at the age of 42), Ken Campbell (2008, at the age of 66), Sir. David Frost (2013, at the age of 74), Richard Anderson (2017, at the age of 91), Carole Shelley (2018, at the age of 79), Norm Spencer (2020, at the age of 79), Gayle Hunnicutt (2023, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.