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 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | Friday | $16,255,317 | $87,203,963 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | Friday | $16,255,317 | $87,203,963 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 2025 | Disney’s Snow White | $42,206,415 | $87,203,963 |
| 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 |
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, turns 87 this year), Timothy Dalton (1946, turns 80 this year), Slavoj Zizek (1949, turns 77 this year), Haydn Gwynne (1957, died on October 20, 2023 at the age of 66), Gary Oldman (1958, turns 68 this year), Rosie O'Donnell (1962, turns 64 this year), Matthew Broderick (1962, turns 64 this year), Alfred Lutter III (1962, turns 64 this year), Jill Schoelen (1963, turns 63 this year), Paul Ronan (1965, turns 61 this year), Cynthia Geary (1965, turns 61 this year), Jaye Davidson (1968, turns 58 this year), Greg Ellis (1968, turns 58 this year), Karyn Kusama (1968, turns 58 this year), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (1972, turns 54 this year), Vanessa Branch (1973, turns 53 this year), Rhys Darby (1974, turns 52 this year), Laura Allen (1974, turns 52 this year), Joseph Mawle (1974, turns 52 this year), Justin Pierce (1975, died on July 10, 2000 at the age of 25), Rachael MacFarlane (1976, turns 50 this year), Ryan Bittle (1976, turns 50 this year), Sam Troughton (1977, turns 49 this year), Rani Mukerji (1978, turns 48 this year), Young Noble (1978, died on July 4, 2025 at the age of 47), Narges Rashidi (1980, turns 46 this year), Rini Bell (1981, turns 45 this year), Santino Fontana (1982, turns 44 this year), Jennifer Sears (1982, turns 44 this year), Max Pomeranc (1984, turns 42 this year), Sonequa Martin-Green (1985, turns 41 this year), Scott Eastwood (1986, turns 40 this year), Melanie Stone (1988, turns 38 this year), Takeru Satoh (1989, turns 37 this year), Suraj Sharma (1993, turns 33 this year), Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994, turns 32 this year), RJ Cyler (1995, turns 31 this year), Martina Stoessel (1997, turns 29 this year), Jace Norman (2000, turns 26 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), George Foreman (2025, at the age of 76), Rakesh Pandey (2025, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.