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.