On This Day - September 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Saturday | $11,838,608 | $294,100,435 |
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | Saturday | $9,564,725 | $96,853,865 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Saturday | $9,151,714 | $59,098,421 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Saturday | $8,995,489 | $61,002,302 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | Sunday | $7,782,073 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | Saturday | $7,703,689 | $211,593,228 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | Saturday | $7,372,043 | $50,188,370 |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Saturday | $7,014,908 | $104,963,598 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2007 | Good Luck Chuck | Friday | $5,137,326 | $35,017,297 |
| 2012 | House at the End of the Street | Friday | $4,621,259 | $31,611,916 |
| 2012 | End of Watch | Friday | $4,603,191 | $41,003,371 |
| 2012 | Trouble with the Curve | Friday | $4,171,545 | $35,763,137 |
| 2012 | Dredd | Friday | $2,219,943 | $13,414,714 |
| 2007 | Sydney White | Friday | $1,766,905 | $11,892,415 |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 11/9 | Friday | $1,063,442 | $6,352,306 |
| 2018 | Life Itself | Friday | $747,398 | $4,095,431 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 21.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | $32,512,804 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | $31,033,665 | $96,853,865 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | $26,608,020 | $68,549,695 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | $25,937,144 | $294,100,435 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | $24,613,970 | $59,098,421 |
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | $23,678,580 | $50,648,679 |
| 2003 | Underworld | $21,753,759 | $51,970,690 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | $20,817,053 | $61,002,302 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | $19,001,398 | $50,188,370 |
| 1996 | The First Wives Club | $18,913,411 | $105,489,203 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1866, died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79), Chuck Jones (1912, died on February 22, 2002 at the age of 89), Nigel Stock (1919, turned 106 this year), Elsa Raven (1929, died on November 3, 2020 at the age of 91), Héctor Alterio (1929, died on December 13, 2025 at the age of 96), John Morgan (1930, died on November 15, 2004 at the age of 74), Larry Hagman (1931, died on November 23, 2012 at the age of 81), Leonard Cohen (1934, died on November 7, 2016 at the age of 82), Henry Gibson (1935, died on September 14, 2009 at the age of 73), Tracy Reed (1941, turned 84 this year), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943, turned 82 this year), Fannie Flagg (1944, turned 81 this year), Caleb Deschanel (1944, turned 81 this year), Stephen King (1947, turned 78 this year), Nick Castle (1947, turned 78 this year), Yusaku Matsuda (1949, died on November 6, 1989 at the age of 40), Bill Murray (1950, turned 75 this year), Michael Hirst (1952, turned 73 this year), Sunny Johnson (1953, turned 72 this year), Mika Kaurismaki (1955, turned 70 this year), François Cluzet (1955, turned 70 this year), Mercedes Moran (1955, turned 70 this year), Marta Kauffman (1956, turned 69 this year), Ethan Coen (1957, turned 68 this year), Dave Coulier (1959, turned 66 this year), David James Elliott (1960, turned 65 this year), Mary Mara (1960, turned 65 this year), James Colby (1961, died on February 23, 2018 at the age of 56), Nancy Travis (1961, turned 64 this year), Serena Scott Thomas (1961, turned 64 this year), Rob Morrow (1962, turned 63 this year), Michael Potts (1962, turned 63 this year), Angus MacFadyen (1963, turned 62 this year), Cheryl Hines (1965, turned 60 this year), David Wenham (1965, turned 60 this year), Faith Hill (1967, turned 58 this year), Brooke Stacy Mills (1967, turned 58 this year), Ricki Lake (1968, turned 57 this year), Billy Porter (1969, turned 56 this year), Adam Lazarre-White (1969, turned 56 this year), Rob Benedict (1970, turned 55 this year), James Lesure (1970, turned 55 this year), Luke Wilson (1971, turned 54 this year), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971, turned 54 this year), Liam Gallagher (1972, turned 53 this year), Troy Bishop (1972, turned 53 this year), Taral Hicks (1974, turned 51 this year), Diego Martin (1974, turned 51 this year), Dominic Pace (1975, turned 50 this year), Jessica St. Clair (1976, turned 49 this year), Shelley Conn (1976, turned 49 this year), Eric Michael Cole (1976, turned 49 this year), Ben Bailey Smith (1977, turned 48 this year), Anthony Hayes (1977, turned 48 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turned 47 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turned 47 this year), Kareena Kapoor (1980, turned 45 this year), Autumn Reeser (1980, turned 45 this year), Aleksa Palladino (1980, turned 45 this year), Robert Hoffman (1980, turned 45 this year), Nicole Richie (1981, turned 44 this year), Rudy Youngblood (1982, turned 43 this year), Elise Schaap (1982, turned 43 this year), Joseph Mazzello (1983, turned 42 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turned 42 this year), Scott Evans (1983, turned 42 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turned 42 this year), Atlee Kumar (1983, turned 42 this year), Ahna O'Reilly (1984, turned 41 this year), Stevie Nelson (1985, turned 40 this year), Carolina Bang (1985, turned 40 this year), Ryan Guzman (1987, turned 38 this year), Brytni Sarpy (1987, turned 38 this year), Jason Derulo (1989, turned 36 this year), Christian Serratos (1990, turned 35 this year), Allison Scagliotti (1990, turned 35 this year), Hadas Yaron (1990, turned 35 this year), Fumi Nikaido (1994, turned 31 this year), Kristine Froseth (1995, turned 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: Harry Carey (1947, at the age of 69), Walter Brennan (1974, at the age of 80), Nigel Patrick (1981, at the age of 69), Henry Koster (1988, at the age of 83), Bill Williams (1992, at the age of 77), Alice Ghostley (2007, at the age of 84), Robert Ginty (2009, at the age of 60), George Odom (2016, at the age of 66), Sid Haig (2019, at the age of 80), Boris Teterev (2019, at the age of 65), Christopher Rouse (2019, at the age of 70), Michael Lonsdale (2020, at the age of 89), Michael Chapman (2020, at the age of 84), Tommy DeVito (2020, at the age of 92), Willie Garson (2021, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.