On This Day - August 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Saturday | $30,989,857 | $333,714,112 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Friday | $28,001,874 | $636,745,858 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Friday | $23,605,520 | $173,956,935 |
| 2002 | Signs | Friday | $20,884,787 | $227,969,295 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Saturday | $17,191,150 | $536,625,724 |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation | Sunday | $15,566,537 | $195,042,377 |
| 2025 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Saturday | $15,370,367 | $274,286,610 |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Saturday | $14,626,400 | $102,491,776 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Wednesday | $12,852,230 | $636,785,476 |
| 2003 | American Wedding | Saturday | $11,308,180 | $104,354,205 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Friday | $23,605,520 | $173,956,935 |
| 2002 | Signs | Friday | $20,884,787 | $227,969,295 |
| 2023 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | Wednesday | $10,202,275 | $118,700,272 |
| 2024 | Trap | Friday | $6,614,368 | $42,777,281 |
| 2002 | The Master of Disguise | Friday | $4,683,434 | $40,363,530 |
| 2002 | Martin Lawrence Live: RunTelDat | Friday | $2,685,385 | $19,184,820 |
| 2024 | Harold and the Purple Crayon | Friday | $2,485,917 | $17,640,924 |
| 2024 | The Firing Squad | Friday | $332,100 | $1,757,110 |
| 2013 | The Spectacular Now | Friday | $69,876 | $6,852,971 |
| 2019 | Luce | Friday | $48,986 | $2,010,613 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $96,809,328 | $636,745,858 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $94,320,883 | $333,714,112 |
| 2002 | Signs | $60,116,619 | $227,969,295 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | $60,038,950 | $173,956,935 |
| 2015 | Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation | $55,520,089 | $195,042,377 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | $42,664,219 | $536,625,724 |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | $40,457,770 | $102,491,776 |
| 2025 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps | $38,695,752 | $274,286,610 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | $38,520,022 | $543,638,043 |
| 2003 | American Wedding | $33,369,440 | $104,354,205 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Myrna Loy (1905, died on December 14, 1993 at the age of 88), Ruth Nelson (1905, died on September 12, 1992 at the age of 87), Ann Dvorak (1911, died on December 10, 1979 at the age of 68), Beatrice Straight (1914, died on April 7, 2001 at the age of 86), Gary Merrill (1915, died on March 5, 1990 at the age of 74), Nehemiah Persoff (1919, turned 106 this year), Carroll O’Connor (1924, died on June 21, 2001 at the age of 76), John Dexter (1925, died on March 23, 1990 at the age of 64), Arthur Marks (1927, died on November 13, 2019 at the age of 92), Bernard L. Kowalski (1929, died on October 26, 2007 at the age of 78), Peter O'Toole (1932, died on December 14, 2013 at the age of 81), John Cohen (1932, died on September 16, 2019 at the age of 87), Tom Bell (1933, died on October 4, 2006 at the age of 73), Maria Angela Giordano (1937, turned 88 this year), Garth Hudson (1937, died on January 21, 2025 at the age of 87), Wes Craven (1939, died on August 30, 2015 at the age of 76), Sandra Lafferty (1940, turned 85 this year), Fabio Testi (1941, turned 84 this year), Max Wright (1943, died on June 26, 2019 at the age of 75), Richard Fancy (1943, turned 82 this year), Joanna Cassidy (1945, turned 80 this year), Kim Charney (1945, turned 80 this year), Morten Arnfred (1945, died on September 2, 2025 at the age of 80), Lawrence Wright (1947, turned 78 this year), Snoo Wilson (1948, turned 77 this year), Michael Sorkin (1948, died on March 26, 2020 at the age of 71), Charles Roven (1949, turned 76 this year), Kathryn Harrold (1950, turned 75 this year), Mathieu Carriere (1950, turned 75 this year), Marcel Iures (1951, turned 74 this year), Butch Patrick (1953, turned 72 this year), Caleb Carr (1955, died on May 23, 2024 at the age of 68), Damian Harris (1958, turned 67 this year), Victoria Jackson (1959, turned 66 this year), Apollonia Kotero (1959, turned 66 this year), Olivier Gruner (1960, turned 65 this year), David Yow (1960, turned 65 this year), Christopher Duddy (1961, turned 64 this year), Norma Maldonado (1962, turned 63 this year), Mary-Louise Parker (1964, turned 61 this year), Kevin Dorff (1966, turned 59 this year), Dina Platias (1966, turned 59 this year), Tim Wakefield (1966, died on October 1, 2023 at the age of 57), Aline Brosh McKenna (1967, turned 58 this year), John Ellison Conlee (1968, turned 57 this year), John MacDonald (1968, turned 57 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turned 55 this year), Kevin Smith (1970, turned 55 this year), Portia Dawson (1971, turned 54 this year), Jacinda Barrett (1972, turned 53 this year), Matthew Del Negro (1972, turned 53 this year), James Preston Rogers (1972, turned 53 this year), Simon Kinberg (1973, turned 52 this year), Kia Goodwin (1973, turned 52 this year), Angie Cepeda (1974, turned 51 this year), Nick Loeb (1975, turned 50 this year), Sam Worthington (1976, turned 49 this year), Adam Mayfield (1976, turned 49 this year), Edward Furlong (1977, turned 48 this year), Krzysztof Soszynski (1977, turned 48 this year), Michelle Lee (1978, turned 47 this year), Natasha Williams (1978, turned 47 this year), Donna Air (1979, turned 46 this year), Cynthia Stevenson (1982, turned 43 this year), Kerry Rhodes (1982, turned 43 this year), Angell Conwell (1983, turned 42 this year), Hatice Sendil (1983, turned 42 this year), Britt Lower (1985, turned 40 this year), Lily Gladstone (1986, turned 39 this year), Ebony N. Mayo (1990, turned 35 this year), Skyler Day (1991, turned 34 this year), Zuleyka Silver (1991, turned 34 this year), Hallie Kate Eisenberg (1992, turned 33 this year), Charli XCX (1992, turned 33 this year), Jovian Wade (1993, turned 32 this year), Cassidy Gifford (1993, turned 32 this year), Angus Imrie (1994, turned 31 this year), Christina Robinson (1997, turned 28 this year), Kiara Glasco (2001, turned 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean-Pierre Melville (1973, at the age of 55), Fritz Lang (1976, at the age of 85), Al Adamson (1995, at the age of 66), Richard Pearson (2011, at the age of 93), David Huddleston (2016, at the age of 85), Terence Bayler (2016, at the age of 86), Leslie Randall (2020, at the age of 95), Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2023, at the age of 95), Kelley Mack (2025, at the age of 33)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.