On This Day - September 26

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 26.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 Saturday $20,751,428 $169,700,110
2014 The Equalizer Friday $12,495,441 $101,530,738
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Saturday $11,184,070 $124,870,275
2008 Eagle Eye Friday $9,800,184 $101,440,743
2025 One Battle After Another Friday $9,000,232 $70,683,711
1998 Rush Hour Saturday $8,936,000 $141,186,864
2015 The Intern Saturday $7,350,542 $75,764,672
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Saturday $6,545,738 $81,697,192
2003 The Rundown Friday $6,356,000 $47,641,743
2009 Surrogates Saturday $6,106,226 $38,577,772

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 26.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2014 The Equalizer Friday $12,495,441 $101,530,738
2008 Eagle Eye Friday $9,800,184 $101,440,743
2025 One Battle After Another Friday $9,000,232 $70,683,711
2003 The Rundown Friday $6,356,000 $47,641,743
2014 The Boxtrolls Friday $4,928,333 $50,837,305
2008 Nights in Rodanthe Friday $4,731,824 $41,850,659
2025 Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie Friday $4,380,530 $32,011,820
1997 The Peacemaker Friday $3,989,408 $41,263,140
1997 Soul Food Friday $3,367,881 $43,492,389
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun Friday $3,030,000 $43,601,508

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 26.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 $48,464,322 $169,700,110
2014 The Equalizer $34,137,828 $101,530,738
2008 Eagle Eye $29,150,721 $101,440,743
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $25,038,803 $124,870,275
1999 Double Jeopardy $23,162,542 $116,735,231
2025 One Battle After Another $22,000,387 $70,683,711
1998 Rush Hour $21,202,929 $141,186,864
2004 The Forgotten $21,022,111 $66,711,892
2010 Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps $19,011,188 $52,474,616
2003 The Rundown $18,533,765 $47,641,743

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Edmund Gwenn (1877, died on September 6, 1959 at the age of 81), Gladys Brockwell (1894, died on July 2, 1929 at the age of 34), George Raft (1901, died on November 24, 1980 at the age of 79), Donald Cook (1901, turned 124 this year), Jack LaLanne (1914, died on January 23, 2011 at the age of 96), Patrick O'Neal (1927, died on September 9, 1994 at the age of 66), Philip Bosco (1930, died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 88), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Richard Herd (1932, died on May 26, 2020 at the age of 87), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Lou Myers (1935, turned 90 this year), Jerry Weintraub (1937, died on July 6, 2015 at the age of 77), Carl Aldana (1938, died on February 8, 2019 at the age of 80), Jonathan Goldsmith (1938, turned 87 this year), Ricky Tomlinson (1939, turned 86 this year), Michael Blodgett (1939, turned 86 this year), Martine Beswick (1941, turned 84 this year), Bryan Ferry (1945, turned 80 this year), Mary Beth Hurt (1946, turned 79 this year), Togo Igawa (1946, turned 79 this year), Olivia Newton-John (1948, died on August 8, 2022 at the age of 73), James Keane (1952, turned 73 this year), Leslie Hamilton Gearren (1956, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 63), Linda Hamilton (1956, turned 69 this year), Michael Dweck (1957, turned 68 this year), Andre Harrell (1960, died on May 7, 2020 at the age of 59), Cindy Herron (1961, turned 64 this year), Jacky Wu (1962, turned 63 this year), Chunky Pandey (1962, turned 63 this year), Patrick Bristow (1962, turned 63 this year), Lawrence Leritz (1962, turned 63 this year), Lysette Anthony (1963, turned 62 this year), Jillian Barberie (1966, turned 59 this year), Elizabeth Saunders (1966, turned 59 this year), David Millbern (1967, turned 58 this year), James Caviezel (1968, turned 57 this year), Ben Shenkman (1968, turned 57 this year), David Slade (1969, turned 56 this year), Sheri Moon Zombie (1970, turned 55 this year), Melanie Paxson (1972, turned 53 this year), Caitlin Keats (1972, turned 53 this year), Julienne Davis (1973, turned 52 this year), Maria Bonnevie (1973, turned 52 this year), Fred Raskin (1973, turned 52 this year), Chiara Schoras (1975, turned 50 this year), Jake Paltrow (1975, turned 50 this year), Jacob Tierney (1979, turned 46 this year), Susanne Wuest (1979, turned 46 this year), Mark Famiglietti (1979, turned 46 this year), Christina Milian (1981, turned 44 this year), Serena Williams (1981, turned 44 this year), Zoe Perry (1983, turned 42 this year), Manny Montana (1983, turned 42 this year), Nev Schulman (1984, turned 41 this year), Alaa Safi (1984, turned 41 this year), William Vaughan (1984, turned 41 this year), Talulah Riley (1985, turned 40 this year), Svetlana Ivanova (1985, turned 40 this year), Ashley Leggat (1986, turned 39 this year), Raquel Beaudene (1986, turned 39 this year), Lilly Singh (1988, turned 37 this year), Emma Rigby (1989, turned 36 this year), Alma Jodorowsky (1991, turned 34 this year), Charlotte Spencer (1991, turned 34 this year)

Died on this day in history: Hugh Lofting (1947, at the age of 61), Anna Magnani (1973, at the age of 65), Richard Mulligan (2000, at the age of 67), Paul Newman (2008, at the age of 83), Johnny Lewis (2012, at the age of 28), Herschell Gordon Lewis (2016, at the age of 90), Barry Dennen (2017, at the age of 79), Shoki Mokgapa (2018, at the age of 79), Myron Dewey (2021, at the age of 49), Venetia Stevenson (2022, at the age of 84), Sandra Dorsey (2023, at the age of 83), John Ashton (2024, at the age of 76), Tigran Keosayan (2025, at the age of 59)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.