On This Day - September 8
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | It | Friday | $50,425,786 | $328,828,874 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Sunday | $27,383,287 | $294,100,435 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | Sunday | $20,391,269 | $211,593,228 |
| 2018 | The Nun | Saturday | $19,788,796 | $117,450,119 |
| 2023 | The Nun II | Friday | $13,107,493 | $86,270,590 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Saturday | $5,852,228 | $174,532,921 |
| 2007 | 3:10 to Yuma | Saturday | $5,639,120 | $53,606,916 |
| 2018 | Peppermint | Saturday | $5,222,525 | $35,418,723 |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Wednesday | $4,614,556 | $224,543,292 |
| 2013 | Riddick | Sunday | $4,505,150 | $42,025,135 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | It | Friday | $50,425,786 | $328,828,874 |
| 2023 | The Nun II | Friday | $13,107,493 | $86,270,590 |
| 2023 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | Friday | $3,706,845 | $28,496,030 |
| 2006 | The Covenant | Friday | $3,126,704 | $23,364,784 |
| 2017 | Home Again | Friday | $3,079,203 | $27,020,284 |
| 2000 | The Watcher | Friday | $2,794,000 | $28,946,615 |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Friday | $2,101,000 | $25,170,054 |
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Friday | $1,900,000 | $14,426,251 |
| 2006 | Tom yum goong | Friday | $1,814,669 | $12,044,087 |
| 2000 | The Way of the Gun | Friday | $684,000 | $6,047,856 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 8.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | It | $123,403,419 | $328,828,874 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | $111,003,345 | $294,100,435 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | $91,062,152 | $211,593,228 |
| 2018 | The Nun | $53,807,379 | $117,450,119 |
| 2023 | The Nun II | $32,603,336 | $86,270,590 |
| 2013 | Riddick | $19,030,375 | $42,025,135 |
| 2007 | 3:10 to Yuma | $14,035,033 | $53,606,916 |
| 2018 | Peppermint | $13,423,255 | $35,418,723 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $13,148,404 | $174,532,921 |
| 2023 | The Equalizer 3 | $12,002,957 | $92,373,751 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Queenie Smith (1898, died on August 5, 1978 at the age of 79), Henry Wilcoxon (1905, died on March 6, 1984 at the age of 78), Alexander Mackendrick (1912, died on December 22, 1993 at the age of 81), Hillary Brooke (1914, died on May 25, 1999 at the age of 84), Harry Secombe (1921, died on April 11, 2001 at the age of 79), Sid Caesar (1922, died on February 12, 2014 at the age of 91), Peter Sellers (1925, died on July 24, 1980 at the age of 54), Mario Adorf (1930, turns 95 this year), Cüneyt Faruk Arkın (1937, turns 88 this year), Louis Mahoney (1938, died on June 30, 2020 at the age of 81), Willard Huyck (1945, turns 80 this year), Aleksander Fabisiak (1945, died on February 9, 2024 at the age of 78), David R. Ellis (1952, died on September 8, 2013 at the age of 61), Pascal Greggory (1953, turns 72 this year), John McGlynn (1953, turns 72 this year), Julian Richings (1955, turns 70 this year), Ric Reitz (1955, turns 70 this year), Aimee Mann (1960, turns 65 this year), Amy Stiller (1961, turns 64 this year), David Knell (1961, turns 64 this year), Gina Belafonte (1961, turns 64 this year), Thomas Kretschmann (1962, turns 63 this year), Brad Silberling (1963, turns 62 this year), David Lee Smith (1963, turns 62 this year), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963, turns 62 this year), Mitchell Whitfield (1964, turns 61 this year), Kimberly Peirce (1967, turns 58 this year), Brian Huskey (1968, turns 57 this year), Lightfield Lewis (1970, turns 55 this year), David Arquette (1971, turns 54 this year), Martin Freeman (1971, turns 54 this year), Vladimir Epifantsev (1971, turns 54 this year), Larenz Tate (1975, turns 50 this year), C. Robert Cargill (1975, turns 50 this year), Nate Corddry (1977, turns 48 this year), Pink (1979, turns 46 this year), Jennifer Lafleur (1979, turns 46 this year), Miles Jupp (1979, turns 46 this year), Tehmina Sunny (1980, turns 45 this year), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (1981, turns 44 this year), Jonathan Taylor Thomas (1981, turns 44 this year), Sameera Reddy (1982, turns 43 this year), Kristina Ellery (1985, turns 40 this year), Jake Sandvig (1986, turns 39 this year), Wiz Khalifa (1987, turns 38 this year), E.J. Bonilla (1988, turns 37 this year), Ashlynn Ross (1989, turns 36 this year), Mark Poletti (1989, turns 36 this year), Ella Rae Peck (1990, turns 35 this year), Park So-dam (1991, turns 34 this year), Pepi Sonuga (1993, turns 32 this year), Matthew Josten (1997, turns 28 this year), Gaten Matarazzo (2002, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Zero Mostel (1977, at the age of 62), Helen Shaw (1997, at the age of 100), Frank Thomas (2004, at the age of 92), Ray Barrett (2009, at the age of 82), Leigh Hamilton (2012, at the age of 62), David R. Ellis (2013, at the age of 61), The Lady Chablis (2016, at the age of 59), Blake Heron (2017, at the age of 35), John Wesley (2019, at the age of 72), Ronald Harwood (2020, at the age of 85), Aleksandr Melnik (2021, at the age of 63), Franco Graziosi (2021, at the age of 92), Queen Elizabeth II (2022, at the age of 96), Felicia Taylor (2023, at the age of 59)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.