On This Day - August 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | KPop Demon Hunters | Sunday | $9,100,000 | $24,300,000 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Saturday | $8,040,579 | $636,745,858 |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Saturday | $7,788,659 | $69,030,436 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Friday | $7,020,104 | $174,532,921 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | Saturday | $6,991,645 | $116,632,095 |
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | Saturday | $6,932,419 | $105,313,091 |
| 2002 | Signs | Saturday | $6,158,166 | $227,969,295 |
| 2007 | Superbad | Friday | $5,669,636 | $121,463,226 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | Saturday | $5,583,686 | $150,394,119 |
| 2002 | xXx | Saturday | $5,486,097 | $141,930,000 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Friday | $4,397,000 | $30,059,386 |
| 2018 | The Happytime Murders | Friday | $3,933,679 | $20,706,452 |
| 2007 | War | Friday | $3,514,132 | $22,486,409 |
| 2007 | Mr. Bean’s Holiday | Friday | $3,265,170 | $33,302,167 |
| 2001 | Summer Catch | Friday | $2,819,000 | $19,693,891 |
| 2007 | The Nanny Diaries | Friday | $2,697,756 | $25,926,673 |
| 2012 | Premium Rush | Friday | $1,964,788 | $20,275,446 |
| 2001 | John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars | Friday | $1,279,500 | $8,434,601 |
| 2012 | The Apparition | Friday | $1,176,879 | $4,936,819 |
| 2018 | A.X.L. | Friday | $821,333 | $6,501,381 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $24,808,202 | $174,532,921 |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | $21,380,987 | $69,030,436 |
| 2025 | KPop Demon Hunters | $19,200,000 | $24,300,000 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $18,310,240 | $636,745,858 |
| 2007 | Superbad | $18,044,369 | $121,463,226 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,202,212 | $333,714,112 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $16,725,447 | $191,204,754 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | $16,503,812 | $116,632,095 |
| 2024 | Alien: Romulus | $16,364,012 | $105,313,091 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | $16,272,195 | $110,515,313 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Preston Foster (1900, died on July 14, 1970 at the age of 69), Hal Smith (1916, died on January 28, 1994 at the age of 77), Pierre Barillet (1923, died on January 8, 2019 at the age of 95), W. Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), William Morgan Sheppard (1932, died on January 6, 2019 at the age of 86), Kenny Baker (1934, died on August 13, 2016 at the age of 81), Lando Buzzanca (1935, died on December 18, 2022 at the age of 87), Dante Spinotti (1943, turned 82 this year), Ronee Blakley (1945, turned 80 this year), Vince McMahon (1945, turned 80 this year), Castulo Guerra (1945, turned 80 this year), Anne Archer (1947, turned 78 this year), Charles Rocket (1949, died on October 7, 2005 at the age of 56), Joe Regalbuto (1949, turned 76 this year), Diana Ossana (1949, turned 76 this year), Tony Amendola (1951, turned 74 this year), David Blaustein (1953, died on August 16, 2021 at the age of 67), Mike Huckabee (1955, turned 70 this year), Meg Gibson (1955, turned 70 this year), Kevin Dunn (1956, turned 69 this year), Stephen Fry (1957, turned 68 this year), Steve Guttenberg (1958, turned 67 this year), Rodrigo Garcia (1959, turned 66 this year), Takashi Miike (1960, turned 65 this year), Jared Harris (1961, turned 64 this year), Mark Protosevich (1961, turned 64 this year), David Koechner (1962, turned 63 this year), Craig Kilborn (1962, turned 63 this year), Harriett D. Foy (1962, turned 63 this year), Gordon Warnecke (1962, turned 63 this year), Dana Gould (1964, turned 61 this year), Marlee Matlin (1965, turned 60 this year), Eric Edwards (1966, turned 59 this year), Pierfrancesco Favino (1969, turned 56 this year), Ava Duvernay (1972, turned 53 this year), Dave Chappelle (1973, turned 52 this year), Grey Griffin (1973, turned 52 this year), Barret Oliver (1973, turned 52 this year), Carmine Giovinazzo (1973, turned 52 this year), Ele Keats (1973, turned 52 this year), James D'Arcy (1975, turned 50 this year), Bonnie Root (1975, turned 50 this year), Drew Pearce (1975, turned 50 this year), Alex O'Loughlin (1976, turned 49 this year), Meital Dohan (1976, turned 49 this year), Nicolas Roye (1977, turned 48 this year), John Green (1977, turned 48 this year), Beth Riesgraf (1978, turned 47 this year), Rachael Carpani (1980, turned 45 this year), Sonja Bennett (1980, turned 45 this year), J.D. Daniels (1980, turned 45 this year), Chad Michael Murray (1981, turned 44 this year), Antonio Campos (1983, turned 42 this year), Cameron Goodman (1984, turned 41 this year), Blake Berris (1984, turned 41 this year), Rupert Grint (1988, turned 37 this year), Elizabeth Debicki (1990, turned 35 this year), Sean Stone (1992, died on March 5, 2024 at the age of 31), Oscar Robert Wahlberg (1998, turned 27 this year), Sofia Richie (1998, turned 27 this year), Griffin Gluck (2000, turned 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Louis Prima (1978, at the age of 67), Morrie Ryskind (1985, at the age of 89), Leonard Frey (1988, at the age of 49), E.G. Marshall (1998, at the age of 84), Jane Greer (2001, at the age of 76), Satoshi Kon (2010, at the age of 46), Julie Harris (2013, at the age of 87), Richard Attenborough (2014, at the age of 90), Jay Thomas (2017, at the age of 69), Charlie Watts (2021, at the age of 80), Veronica Echegui (2025, at the age of 42)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.