On This Day - November 4

← November 3 Day Index November 5 →

Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 4.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2017 Thor: Ragnarok Saturday $44,203,752 $315,058,289
2016 Doctor Strange Friday $32,585,335 $232,641,920
2001 Monsters, Inc. Sunday $18,140,000 $290,149,425
2000 Charlie's Angels Saturday $15,547,000 $125,305,545
2012 Wreck-It Ralph Sunday $13,506,640 $189,412,677
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody Sunday $13,379,805 $216,303,339
2016 Trolls Friday $12,373,296 $153,856,089
2007 Bee Movie Sunday $10,871,968 $126,631,277
2005 Chicken Little Friday $10,571,609 $135,386,665
2005 Jarhead Friday $10,548,125 $62,647,540

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 4.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2016 Doctor Strange Friday $32,585,335 $232,641,920
2016 Trolls Friday $12,373,296 $153,856,089
2005 Chicken Little Friday $10,571,609 $135,386,665
2005 Jarhead Friday $10,548,125 $62,647,540
2011 Tower Heist Friday $8,062,980 $78,046,570
2011 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Friday $5,392,867 $35,061,031
2016 Hacksaw Ridge Friday $5,340,939 $67,209,615
2022 One Piece Film: Red Friday $4,838,903 $12,768,073
1998 Belly Wednesday $851,228 $9,639,390
2019 Christmas Jars Monday $459,466 $459,466

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was November 4.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2017 Thor: Ragnarok $122,744,989 $315,058,289
2016 Doctor Strange $85,058,311 $232,641,920
2001 Monsters, Inc. $62,577,067 $290,149,425
2018 Bohemian Rhapsody $51,061,119 $216,303,339
2012 Wreck-It Ralph $49,038,712 $189,412,677
2016 Trolls $46,581,142 $153,856,089
2007 American Gangster $43,565,135 $130,164,645
2000 Charlie's Angels $40,128,550 $125,305,545
2005 Chicken Little $40,049,778 $135,386,665
2007 Bee Movie $38,021,044 $126,631,277

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Will Rogers (1879, died on August 15, 1935 at the age of 55), Ian Wolfe (1896, died on January 23, 1992 at the age of 95), Gig Young (1913, died on October 19, 1978 at the age of 64), Walter Cronkite (1916, died on July 17, 2009 at the age of 92), Leonardo Cimino (1917, died on March 3, 2012 at the age of 94), Cameron Mitchell (1918, died on July 7, 1994 at the age of 75), Art Carney (1918, died on November 9, 2003 at the age of 85), Martin Balsam (1919, turns 106 this year), Doris Roberts (1925, died on April 17, 2016 at the age of 90), Vittorio Congia (1930, died on November 26, 2019 at the age of 89), Miroslav Ondříček (1934, died on March 28, 2015 at the age of 80), C.K. Williams (1936, died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 78), Jan Triska (1936, died on September 25, 2017 at the age of 80), Loretta Swit (1937, died on May 30, 2025 at the age of 87), Manuel Ojeda (1940, died on August 11, 2022 at the age of 81), Mickey Cottrell (1944, died on January 1, 2024 at the age of 79), Frederick Elmes (1946, turns 79 this year), Jerry Fleck (1947, turns 78 this year), Linda Haynes (1947, turns 78 this year), Toshiyuki Nishida (1947, died on October 17, 2024 at the age of 76), Berlinda Tolbert (1949, turns 76 this year), Markie Post (1950, died on August 7, 2021 at the age of 70), Nik Powell OBE (1950, died on November 7, 2019 at the age of 69), John Vickery (1950, turns 75 this year), Peter Lord (1953, turns 72 this year), Ken Kirzinger (1959, turns 66 this year), Deborah Rennard (1959, turns 66 this year), Kathy Griffin (1960, turns 65 this year), Ralph Macchio (1961, turns 64 this year), Kiersten Warren (1965, turns 60 this year), Monique Parent (1965, turns 60 this year), Yilmaz Erdogan (1967, turns 58 this year), Krista Bridges (1968, turns 57 this year), Gary Stretch (1968, turns 57 this year), Matthew McConaughey (1969, turns 56 this year), Sean Combs (1969, turns 56 this year), Samantha Smith (1969, turns 56 this year), Anthony Ruivivar (1970, turns 55 this year), Sello Motloung (1970, died on September 15, 2024 at the age of 53), Tabu (1971, turns 54 this year), Myles Pollard (1972, turns 53 this year), Justine Waddell (1975, turns 50 this year), Heather Tom (1975, turns 50 this year), Goran D. Kleut (1975, turns 50 this year), Trishelle Cannatella (1979, turns 46 this year), Travis Van Winkle (1982, turns 43 this year), Olivia Taylor Dudley (1985, turns 40 this year), Gillian Zinser (1985, turns 40 this year), Jean-Luc Bilodeau (1990, turns 35 this year), Bee Vang (1991, turns 34 this year), Fivel Stewart (1996, turns 29 this year), Chelsea Zhang (1996, turns 29 this year), Darcy Rose Byrnes (1998, turns 27 this year)

Died on this day in history: Dominique Dunne (1982, at the age of 22), Antonio Margheriti (2002, at the age of 72), Michael Crichton (2008, at the age of 66), Melissa Mathison (2015, at the age of 65), Johnny Kevorkian (2020, at the age of 65), Marina Cicogna (2023, at the age of 89)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.