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 $1,039,440
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, turns 101 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, turns 87 this year), Tom O’Connor (1939, turns 87 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, turns 81 this year), Stephen Rea (1946, turns 80 this year), Michael Kitchen (1948, turns 78 this year), John Candy (1950, died on March 4, 1994 at the age of 43), Joe West (1952, turns 74 this year), Lynda Goodfriend (1953, turns 73 this year), Ken Wahl (1954, turns 72 this year), Brian Stokes Mitchell (1957, turns 69 this year), Michael DeLorenzo (1959, turns 67 this year), Arnaud Desplechin (1960, turns 66 this year), Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961, turns 65 this year), Peter Jackson (1961, turns 65 this year), Rob Schneider (1963, turns 63 this year), Dermot Mulroney (1963, turns 63 this year), Sanjeev Bhaskar (1963, turns 63 this year), Mike O'Malley (1966, turns 60 this year), Adam Horovitz (1966, turns 60 this year), Adam Schlesinger (1967, died on March 31, 2020 at the age of 52), Nolan North (1970, turns 56 this year), Irina Pantaeva (1971, turns 55 this year), Christopher Bevins (1973, turns 53 this year), Ruben Fleischer (1974, turns 52 this year), David Dencik (1974, turns 52 this year), Johnny Whitworth (1975, turns 51 this year), Keith Jardine (1975, turns 51 this year), Piper Perabo (1976, turns 50 this year), Brian Hallisay (1978, turns 48 this year), Erica Cerra (1979, turns 47 this year), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980, turns 46 this year), Samaire Armstrong (1980, turns 46 this year), Justin Chatwin (1982, turns 44 this year), Kether Donohue (1985, turns 41 this year), Jordan-Claire Green (1991, turns 35 this year), Vanessa Marano (1992, turns 34 this year), Letitia Wright (1993, turns 33 this year), Sydney Park (1997, turns 29 this year), Danielle Rose Russell (1999, turns 27 this year), Willow Smith (2000, turns 26 this year), Dixie Egerickx (2005, turns 21 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.