On This Day - October 31
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Michael Jackson’s This Is It | Saturday | $7,075,741 | $72,091,016 |
| 2009 | Paranormal Activity | Saturday | $6,576,554 | $107,918,810 |
| 2010 | Saw 3D | Sunday | $5,681,091 | $45,710,178 |
| 2018 | Halloween | Wednesday | $5,547,305 | $159,366,015 |
| 2004 | Saw | Sunday | $5,392,153 | $55,968,727 |
| 2004 | The Grudge | Sunday | $5,286,361 | $110,359,362 |
| 2023 | Five Nights at Freddy’s | Tuesday | $5,249,255 | $137,275,620 |
| 2004 | Ray | Sunday | $4,964,685 | $75,305,995 |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | Friday | $4,670,000 | $110,000,082 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Saturday | $4,564,809 | $228,433,663 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 31.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | Friday | $3,200,000 | $32,381,218 |
| 2008 | Zack and Miri Make a Porno | Friday | $2,194,513 | $31,457,946 |
| 2008 | The Haunting of Molly Hartley | Friday | $1,788,263 | $13,442,412 |
| 1997 | Red Corner | Friday | $1,760,000 | $22,442,815 |
| 2015 | The Met: Live in HD - Tannhauser | Saturday | $1,150,000 | $1,150,000 |
| 2014 | Before I Go to Sleep | Friday | $571,469 | $3,242,457 |
| 1997 | Switchback | Friday | $555,000 | $6,504,442 |
| 2025 | Baahubali: The Epic | Friday | $483,000 | $1,039,291 |
| 2017 | Keep Watching | Tuesday | $94,178 | $94,178 |
| 2025 | Violent Ends | Friday | $52,181 | $185,131 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 31.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Saw 3D | $24,230,123 | $45,710,178 |
| 2009 | Michael Jackson’s This Is It | $23,234,394 | $72,091,016 |
| 2004 | The Grudge | $21,817,598 | $110,359,362 |
| 2004 | Ray | $20,039,730 | $75,305,995 |
| 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | $20,017,468 | $110,000,082 |
| 2003 | Brother Bear | $19,404,492 | $85,336,277 |
| 2004 | Saw | $18,276,468 | $55,968,727 |
| 2010 | Paranormal Activity 2 | $16,508,107 | $84,752,907 |
| 2009 | Paranormal Activity | $16,387,327 | $107,918,810 |
| 1999 | House on Haunted Hill | $15,946,032 | $40,846,082 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Dale Evans (1912, died on February 7, 2001 at the age of 88), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922, died on August 8, 2005 at the age of 82), Lee Grant (1925, turned 100 this year), Dianne Foster (1928, died on July 27, 2019 at the age of 90), Bud Spencer (1929, died on June 27, 2016 at the age of 86), April Ferry (1932, died on January 11, 2024 at the age of 91), Richard Bradford (1934, died on March 22, 2016 at the age of 81), Suzanne Shepherd (1934, died on November 17, 2023 at the age of 89), Ron Rifkin (1939, turned 86 this year), Tom O’Connor (1939, turned 86 this year), Sally Kirkland (1941, died on November 11, 2025 at the age of 84), David Ogden Stiers (1942, died on March 3, 2018 at the age of 75), Pierre William Glenn (1943, died on September 24, 2024 at the age of 80), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945, turned 80 this year), Stephen Rea (1946, turned 79 this year), Michael Kitchen (1948, turned 77 this year), John Candy (1950, died on March 4, 1994 at the age of 43), Joe West (1952, turned 73 this year), Lynda Goodfriend (1953, turned 72 this year), Ken Wahl (1954, turned 71 this year), Brian Stokes Mitchell (1957, turned 68 this year), Michael DeLorenzo (1959, turned 66 this year), Arnaud Desplechin (1960, turned 65 this year), Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961, turned 64 this year), Peter Jackson (1961, turned 64 this year), Rob Schneider (1963, turned 62 this year), Dermot Mulroney (1963, turned 62 this year), Sanjeev Bhaskar (1963, turned 62 this year), Mike O'Malley (1966, turned 59 this year), Adam Horovitz (1966, turned 59 this year), Adam Schlesinger (1967, died on March 31, 2020 at the age of 52), Nolan North (1970, turned 55 this year), Irina Pantaeva (1971, turned 54 this year), Christopher Bevins (1973, turned 52 this year), Ruben Fleischer (1974, turned 51 this year), David Dencik (1974, turned 51 this year), Johnny Whitworth (1975, turned 50 this year), Keith Jardine (1975, turned 50 this year), Piper Perabo (1976, turned 49 this year), Brian Hallisay (1978, turned 47 this year), Erica Cerra (1979, turned 46 this year), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980, turned 45 this year), Samaire Armstrong (1980, turned 45 this year), Justin Chatwin (1982, turned 43 this year), Kether Donohue (1985, turned 40 this year), Jordan-Claire Green (1991, turned 34 this year), Vanessa Marano (1992, turned 33 this year), Letitia Wright (1993, turned 32 this year), Sydney Park (1997, turned 28 this year), Danielle Rose Russell (1999, turned 26 this year), Willow Smith (2000, turned 25 this year), Dixie Egerickx (2005, turned 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Henry Daniell (1963, at the age of 69), Rita Johnson (1965, at the age of 52), Joseph Calleia (1975, at the age of 78), John Houseman (1988, at the age of 86), River Phoenix (1993, at the age of 23), Federico Fellini (1993, at the age of 73), Rosalind Cash (1995, at the age of 56), Marcel Carne (1996, at the age of 90), Raf Vallone (2002, at the age of 86), Gregg Palmer (2015, at the age of 88), Andrew Duncan (2022, at the age of 88), Andrew Prine (2022, at the age of 86), Tyler Christopher (2023, at the age of 50), Stephanie Collie (2024, at the age of 60), Tcheky Karyo (2025, at the age of 72), Peter Watkins (2025, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.