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 $71,576,735
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 $71,576,735
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 $71,576,735
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, turns 125 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, turns 91 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, turns 88 this year), Ricky Tomlinson (1939, turns 87 this year), Michael Blodgett (1939, turns 87 this year), Martine Beswick (1941, turns 85 this year), Bryan Ferry (1945, turns 81 this year), Mary Beth Hurt (1946, turns 80 this year), Togo Igawa (1946, turns 80 this year), Olivia Newton-John (1948, died on August 8, 2022 at the age of 73), James Keane (1952, turns 74 this year), Leslie Hamilton Gearren (1956, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 63), Linda Hamilton (1956, turns 70 this year), Michael Dweck (1957, turns 69 this year), Andre Harrell (1960, died on May 7, 2020 at the age of 59), Cindy Herron (1961, turns 65 this year), Jacky Wu (1962, turns 64 this year), Chunky Pandey (1962, turns 64 this year), Patrick Bristow (1962, turns 64 this year), Lawrence Leritz (1962, turns 64 this year), Lysette Anthony (1963, turns 63 this year), Jillian Barberie (1966, turns 60 this year), Elizabeth Saunders (1966, turns 60 this year), David Millbern (1967, turns 59 this year), James Caviezel (1968, turns 58 this year), Ben Shenkman (1968, turns 58 this year), David Slade (1969, turns 57 this year), Sheri Moon Zombie (1970, turns 56 this year), Melanie Paxson (1972, turns 54 this year), Caitlin Keats (1972, turns 54 this year), Julienne Davis (1973, turns 53 this year), Maria Bonnevie (1973, turns 53 this year), Fred Raskin (1973, turns 53 this year), Chiara Schoras (1975, turns 51 this year), Jake Paltrow (1975, turns 51 this year), Jacob Tierney (1979, turns 47 this year), Susanne Wuest (1979, turns 47 this year), Mark Famiglietti (1979, turns 47 this year), Christina Milian (1981, turns 45 this year), Serena Williams (1981, turns 45 this year), Zoe Perry (1983, turns 43 this year), Manny Montana (1983, turns 43 this year), Nev Schulman (1984, turns 42 this year), Alaa Safi (1984, turns 42 this year), William Vaughan (1984, turns 42 this year), Talulah Riley (1985, turns 41 this year), Svetlana Ivanova (1985, turns 41 this year), Ashley Leggat (1986, turns 40 this year), Raquel Beaudene (1986, turns 40 this year), Lilly Singh (1988, turns 38 this year), Emma Rigby (1989, turns 37 this year), Alma Jodorowsky (1991, turns 35 this year), Charlotte Spencer (1991, turns 35 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.