On This Day - February 17

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 17.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther Saturday $65,995,366 $700,059,566
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Friday $46,431,851 $214,504,909
2007 Ghost Rider Saturday $17,338,380 $115,802,596
2001 Hannibal Saturday $14,000,000 $165,092,266
2014 The Lego Movie Monday $12,632,036 $258,364,131
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog Monday $11,983,726 $146,066,470
2024 Bob Marley: One Love Saturday $11,685,730 $96,981,216
2025 Captain America: Brave New World Monday $11,178,411 $200,500,001
2019 Alita: Battle Angel Sunday $9,300,205 $85,838,210
2007 Bridge to Terabithia Saturday $9,035,948 $82,234,139

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 17.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Friday $46,431,851 $214,504,909
2012 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Friday $6,934,834 $51,774,002
2006 Date Movie Friday $6,839,360 $48,548,426
2017 The Great Wall Friday $5,884,250 $45,157,105
2012 This Means War Friday $5,583,770 $54,760,791
2006 Eight Below Friday $5,093,211 $81,612,565
2017 Fist Fight Friday $3,806,379 $32,187,017
2006 Freedomland Friday $1,813,104 $12,512,886
2012 Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ) Friday $1,692,721 $19,192,510
2017 A Cure for Wellness Friday $1,521,458 $8,106,986

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 17.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther $202,003,951 $700,059,566
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania $106,109,650 $214,504,909
2007 Ghost Rider $45,388,836 $115,802,596
2001 Hannibal $33,501,505 $165,092,266
2017 The Lego Batman Movie $32,655,114 $175,750,384
2024 Bob Marley: One Love $28,659,004 $96,981,216
2019 Alita: Battle Angel $28,525,613 $85,838,210
2008 Jumper $27,354,808 $80,172,128
2013 A Good Day to Die Hard $24,834,845 $67,349,198
2013 Identity Thief $23,674,295 $134,506,920

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Mary Brian (1906, died on December 30, 2002 at the age of 96), Marc Lawrence (1910, died on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95), Arthur Kennedy (1914, died on January 5, 1990 at the age of 75), Wayne Morris (1914, died on September 14, 1959 at the age of 45), Raf Vallone (1916, died on October 31, 2002 at the age of 86), Kathleen Freeman (1919, died on August 23, 2001 at the age of 82), Hal Holbrook (1925, died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95), Jeremy Slate (1926, died on November 19, 2006 at the age of 80), Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929, turns 97 this year), Barry Humphries (1934, died on April 22, 2023 at the age of 89), Alan Bates (1934, died on December 27, 2003 at the age of 69), Christina Pickles (1935, turns 91 this year), Jim Brown (1936, turns 90 this year), Benjamin Whitrow (1937, died on September 28, 2017 at the age of 80), Mary Ann Mobley (1937, died on December 9, 2014 at the age of 77), Jo Kendall (1938, died on January 29, 2022 at the age of 83), James Laurenson (1940, turns 86 this year), Julia McKenzie (1941, turns 85 this year), Brenda Fricker (1945, turns 81 this year), Garry Chalk (1952, turns 74 this year), Becky Ann Baker (1953, turns 73 this year), Rene Russo (1954, turns 72 this year), Lars Brygmann (1957, turns 69 this year), Carole Davis (1958, turns 68 this year), Dave Courtney (1959, died on October 22, 2023 at the age of 64), Tuesday Knight (1961, turns 65 this year), Lou Diamond Phillips (1962, turns 64 this year), Michael Jordan (1963, turns 63 this year), Larry the Cable Guy (1963, turns 63 this year), Michael Bay (1965, turns 61 this year), Dominic Purcell (1970, turns 56 this year), Denise Richards (1971, turns 55 this year), Lisa McCune (1971, turns 55 this year), Billie Joe Armstrong (1972, turns 54 this year), Taylor Hawkins (1972, died on March 25, 2022 at the age of 50), Jerry O'Connell (1974, turns 52 this year), Kelly Carlson (1976, turns 50 this year), Isaac Kappy (1977, died on May 13, 2019 at the age of 42), Erin Cardillo (1977, turns 49 this year), Rory Kinnear (1978, turns 48 this year), Ashton Holmes (1978, turns 48 this year), Jackson Hurst (1979, turns 47 this year), Jason Ritter (1980, turns 46 this year), Paris Hilton (1981, turns 45 this year), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981, turns 45 this year), Brooke D’Orsay (1982, turns 44 this year), Chord Overstreet (1989, turns 37 this year), Bonnie Wright (1991, turns 35 this year), Ed Sheeran (1991, turns 35 this year), Meaghan Martin (1992, turns 34 this year), Sasha Pieterse (1996, turns 30 this year), Cameron Seely (2007, turns 19 this year)

Died on this day in history: Jean Servais (1976, at the age of 65), Lee Strasberg (1982, at the age of 80), Paul Stewart (1986, at the age of 77), Shirley Stoler (1999, at the age of 69), Daniel O’Herlihy (2005, at the age of 85), Kathryn Grayson (2010, at the age of 88), Richard Briers (2013, at the age of 79), Ray West (2016, at the age of 90), Andrzej Żuławski (2016, at the age of 75), Börge Hellström (2017, at the age of 59), Kim Ji-young (2017, at the age of 78), Leah Adler (2017, at the age of 97), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Charles Portis (2020, at the age of 86), Henry Gray (2020, at the age of 95), Ja’net DuBois (2020, at the age of 87), Stella Stevens (2023, at the age of 84), Gerald Fried (2023, at the age of 95), Shahnawaz Pradhan (2023, at the age of 56), George T. Miller (2023, at the age of 79), Suhani Bhatnagar (2024, at the age of 19), Antonine Maillet (2025, at the age of 95), Carlos Miranda (2025, at the age of 91), Jamie Muir (2025, at the age of 82)

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