On This Day - March 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | Friday | $22,784,019 | $150,947,895 |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Saturday | $19,686,052 | $130,179,072 |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Tuesday | $17,878,785 | $504,014,165 |
| 2015 | Cinderella | Saturday | $15,287,500 | $201,151,353 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | Friday | $10,164,609 | $154,529,439 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Sunday | $9,928,104 | $334,191,110 |
| 2009 | Knowing | Saturday | $9,872,734 | $79,957,634 |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Friday | $8,115,913 | $41,975,388 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Saturday | $8,003,861 | $674,460,013 |
| 2009 | I Love You, Man | Saturday | $6,763,051 | $72,013,010 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | Friday | $22,784,019 | $150,947,895 |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Friday | $8,115,913 | $41,975,388 |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Friday | $5,454,567 | $33,685,268 |
| 2008 | Shutter | Friday | $4,666,802 | $25,928,550 |
| 2014 | Muppets Most Wanted | Friday | $4,662,265 | $51,178,893 |
| 2008 | Drillbit Taylor | Friday | $4,099,971 | $32,862,104 |
| 2014 | God’s Not Dead | Friday | $2,817,894 | $60,755,732 |
| 2003 | View from the Top | Friday | $2,566,000 | $15,614,000 |
| 2003 | Piglet's Big Movie | Friday | $1,735,008 | $23,103,423 |
| 2003 | Boat Trip | Friday | $1,199,000 | $8,586,376 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 21.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Divergent | $54,607,747 | $150,947,895 |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | $52,263,680 | $130,179,072 |
| 2015 | Cinderella | $34,967,659 | $201,151,353 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $34,189,969 | $334,191,110 |
| 1997 | Liar Liar | $31,423,025 | $181,410,615 |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | $26,722,575 | $58,990,765 |
| 2009 | Knowing | $24,604,751 | $79,957,634 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | $24,590,596 | $154,529,439 |
| 2010 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | $22,126,166 | $64,003,625 |
| 2010 | The Bounty Hunter | $20,686,423 | $67,061,228 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Disney’s Snow White, Alto Knights
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Eric Rohmer (1920, died on January 11, 2010 at the age of 89), Russ Meyer (1922, died on September 18, 2004 at the age of 82), Peter Brook (1925, died on July 2, 2022 at the age of 97), Al Freeman, Jr. (1931, died on August 9, 2012 at the age of 81), Kathleen Widdoes (1939, turned 85 this year), Timothy Dalton (1946, turned 78 this year), Slavoj Zizek (1949, turned 75 this year), Haydn Gwynne (1957, died on October 20, 2023 at the age of 66), Gary Oldman (1958, turned 66 this year), Rosie O'Donnell (1962, turned 62 this year), Matthew Broderick (1962, turned 62 this year), Alfred Lutter III (1962, turned 62 this year), Jill Schoelen (1963, turned 61 this year), Paul Ronan (1965, turned 59 this year), Cynthia Geary (1965, turned 59 this year), Jaye Davidson (1968, turned 56 this year), Greg Ellis (1968, turned 56 this year), Karyn Kusama (1968, turned 56 this year), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (1972, turned 52 this year), Vanessa Branch (1973, turned 51 this year), Rhys Darby (1974, turned 50 this year), Laura Allen (1974, turned 50 this year), Joseph Mawle (1974, turned 50 this year), Justin Pierce (1975, died on July 10, 2000 at the age of 25), Rachael MacFarlane (1976, turned 48 this year), Ryan Bittle (1976, turned 48 this year), Sam Troughton (1977, turned 47 this year), Rani Mukerji (1978, turned 46 this year), Narges Rashidi (1980, turned 44 this year), Rini Bell (1981, turned 43 this year), Santino Fontana (1982, turned 42 this year), Jennifer Sears (1982, turned 42 this year), Max Pomeranc (1984, turned 40 this year), Sonequa Martin-Green (1985, turned 39 this year), Scott Eastwood (1986, turned 38 this year), Melanie Stone (1988, turned 36 this year), Takeru Satoh (1989, turned 35 this year), Suraj Sharma (1993, turned 31 this year), Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994, turned 30 this year), RJ Cyler (1995, turned 29 this year), Martina Stoessel (1997, turned 27 this year), Jace Norman (2000, turned 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Lilyan Tashman (1934, at the age of 37), Rudolf Lettinger (1937, at the age of 71), Robert Preston (1987, at the age of 68), John Ireland (1992, at the age of 78), Ludmilla Tchérina (2004, at the age of 79), Bobby Short (2005, at the age of 80), James Rebhorn (2014, at the age of 65), Alberta Watson (2015, at the age of 60), Peter Brown (2016, at the age of 80), Ralph Riach (2022, at the age of 82), Lawrence Dane (2022, at the age of 84), Terry Norris (2023, at the age of 92), Peter Werner (2023, at the age of 76), Gini Santos (2024, at the age of 76)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.