On This Day - October 4
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Friday | $20,257,472 | $58,300,287 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Saturday | $15,175,369 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | Saturday | $13,979,788 | $84,273,813 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Sunday | $13,911,129 | $228,433,663 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Saturday | $12,482,375 | $94,514,402 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sunday | $9,982,870 | $169,700,110 |
| 2025 | Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl | Saturday | $9,922,644 | $34,062,774 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Friday | $20,257,472 | $58,300,287 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2013 | Runner Runner | Friday | $2,786,580 | $19,316,646 |
| 2002 | Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie | Friday | $1,898,000 | $25,571,351 |
| 2013 | Pulling Strings | Friday | $758,787 | $5,842,961 |
| 2024 | White Bird | Friday | $687,007 | $5,069,171 |
| 2021 | God’s Not Dead: We the People | Monday | $387,379 | $1,170,387 |
| 2013 | Grace Unplugged | Friday | $346,973 | $2,507,159 |
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 4.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | $96,202,337 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $55,785,112 | $274,092,705 |
| 2015 | The Martian | $54,308,575 | $228,433,663 |
| 2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | $37,678,467 | $58,300,287 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | $37,513,109 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | $37,134,255 | $84,273,813 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | $36,540,945 | $92,955,420 |
| 2025 | Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl | $34,062,774 | $34,062,774 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | $29,300,465 | $94,514,402 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Buster Keaton (1895, died on February 1, 1966 at the age of 70), John Larch (1914, died on October 16, 2005 at the age of 91), George Sidney (1916, died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 85), Charlton Heston (1923, died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84), Edmund Lyndeck (1925, died on December 14, 2015 at the age of 90), Scotty Beckett (1929, turned 96 this year), Erwin C. Dietrich (1930, died on March 15, 2018 at the age of 87), Stan Dragoti (1932, died on July 13, 2018 at the age of 85), Horst Janson (1935, died on January 28, 2025 at the age of 89), Robert Wilson (1941, turned 84 this year), Anne Rice (1941, died on December 11, 2021 at the age of 80), Mick Jackson (1943, turned 82 this year), Kate McGregor-Stewart (1944, turned 81 this year), Michael C. Gross (1945, died on November 16, 2015 at the age of 70), Clifton Davis (1945, turned 80 this year), Susan Sarandon (1946, turned 79 this year), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949, turned 76 this year), Armand Assante (1949, turned 76 this year), Alan Rosenberg (1950, turned 75 this year), Rob Fruithof (1951, died on August 25, 2023 at the age of 71), Tcheky Karyo (1953, died on October 31, 2025 at the age of 72), Christopher Fairbank (1953, turned 72 this year), Kerry Sherman (1953, turned 72 this year), Christoph Waltz (1956, turned 69 this year), Bill Fagerbakke (1957, turned 68 this year), Wendy Makkena (1958, turned 67 this year), Annabelle Lanyon (1960, turned 65 this year), Loren Lester (1960, turned 65 this year), Mike Norris (1962, turned 63 this year), Mark Powley (1963, turned 62 this year), Sarah Lancashire (1964, turned 61 this year), Leah Daniels-Butler (1965, turned 60 this year), Caroline Barclay (1966, turned 59 this year), Liev Schreiber (1967, turned 58 this year), Abraham Benrubi (1969, turned 56 this year), Jerry Minor (1969, turned 56 this year), Hoyte Van Hoytema (1971, turned 54 this year), Mark Kassen (1971, turned 54 this year), Pablo Trapero (1971, turned 54 this year), Trond Espen Seim (1971, turned 54 this year), Dennis Gansel (1973, turned 52 this year), Paco Leon (1974, turned 51 this year), Alicia Silverstone (1976, turned 49 this year), Alycia Delmore (1977, turned 48 this year), Phillip Glasser (1978, turned 47 this year), Rachael Leigh Cook (1979, turned 46 this year), Caitriona Balfe (1979, turned 46 this year), Dana Davis (1979, turned 46 this year), Nick Mohammed (1980, turned 45 this year), Vicky Krieps (1983, turned 42 this year), Laila Berzins (1983, turned 42 this year), Gerard Kearns (1984, turned 41 this year), James Landry Hebert (1984, turned 41 this year), Natalia Ryumina (1984, turned 41 this year), Cody McMains (1985, turned 40 this year), Kali Hawk (1986, turned 39 this year), Sara Forestier (1986, turned 39 this year), Michael Charles Roman (1987, turned 38 this year), Melissa Benoist (1988, turned 37 this year), Dakota Johnson (1989, turned 36 this year), Cole Hawkins (1991, turned 34 this year), Sam Earle (1993, turned 32 this year), Ella Balinska (1996, turned 29 this year), Ryan Lee (1996, turned 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Graham Chapman (1989, at the age of 48), Tom Bell (2006, at the age of 73), William Tepper (2017, at the age of 73), Audrey Wells (2018, at the age of 58), Will Vinton (2018, at the age of 70), Diahann Carroll (2019, at the age of 84), Clark Middleton (2020, at the age of 62), Shawna Trpcic (2023, at the age of 57), Michel Blanc (2024, at the age of 72), Xavier Durringer (2025, at the age of 61)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.