On This Day - September 3

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 3.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Friday $29,502,259 $224,543,292
2023 The Equalizer 3 Sunday $10,512,162 $92,373,751
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Monday $6,611,877 $174,532,921
2016 Don’t Breathe Saturday $5,947,359 $89,217,875
2005 The Transporter 2 Saturday $5,815,921 $43,095,856
2011 The Help Saturday $5,364,078 $169,705,587
1999 The Sixth Sense Friday $5,353,000 $293,506,292
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin Saturday $4,859,175 $109,607,527
2006 Invincible Sunday $4,502,442 $57,806,952
2007 Halloween Monday $4,229,392 $58,269,151

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 3.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Friday $29,502,259 $224,543,292
2010 Machete Friday $3,866,357 $26,593,646
2010 Going the Distance Friday $2,229,382 $17,804,299
2004 Paparazzi Friday $1,800,000 $15,712,072
2004 Wicker Park Friday $1,700,000 $13,001,257
2004 The Cookout Friday $1,600,000 $11,540,112
2010 We Are Family Friday $72,150 $638,144
2021 Tango Shalom Friday $4,725 $102,651
2021 Celle que vous croyez Friday $2,584 $45,265
2010 White Wedding Friday $2,384 $11,711

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 3.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $75,388,688 $224,543,292
2023 The Equalizer 3 $34,604,229 $92,373,751
1999 The Sixth Sense $29,271,146 $293,506,292
1993 The Fugitive $17,239,413 $183,968,665
2005 The Transporter 2 $16,540,720 $43,095,856
2016 Don’t Breathe $15,833,223 $89,217,875
2011 The Help $14,594,623 $169,705,587
2000 Bring it On $14,170,825 $68,353,550
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin $13,301,085 $109,607,527
2010 The American $13,177,790 $35,606,376

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: The Simpsons Movie 2

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Heather Thatcher (1896, turns 130 this year), Cecil Parker (1897, died on April 20, 1971 at the age of 73), Alan Ladd (1913, died on January 29, 1964 at the age of 50), Burt Kennedy (1922, died on February 15, 2001 at the age of 78), Anne Jackson (1925, died on April 12, 2016 at the age of 90), Uttam Kumar (1926, died on July 24, 1980 at the age of 53), Irene Papas (1926, died on September 14, 2022 at the age of 96), Nora Denney (1927, died on November 20, 2005 at the age of 78), Whitey Bulger (1929, died on October 30, 2018 at the age of 89), James R. Alexander (1930, died on August 19, 2019 at the age of 88), Eileen Brennan (1932, died on July 28, 2013 at the age of 80), David Byrd (1932, turns 94 this year), Christian Barbier (1939, died on August 4, 2022 at the age of 82), Pauline Collins (1940, turns 86 this year), Macha Meril (1940, turns 86 this year), Ray Xifo (1942, turns 84 this year), Valerie Perrine (1943, turns 83 this year), R. Bruce Elliott (1949, turns 77 this year), Lou Richards (1951, turns 75 this year), Shakti Kapoor (1952, turns 74 this year), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953, turns 73 this year), Stephen Woolley (1956, turns 70 this year), Adam Brooks (1956, turns 70 this year), Steve Schirripa (1957, turns 69 this year), Kevin McCorkle (1958, turns 68 this year), Merritt Butrick (1959, turns 67 this year), Holt McCallany (1963, turns 63 this year), A.J. Johnson (1963, turns 63 this year), Serena Gordon (1963, turns 63 this year), Daniel Myrick (1963, turns 63 this year), Beth McCarthy-Miller (1963, turns 63 this year), Spike Feresten (1964, turns 62 this year), Charlie Sheen (1965, turns 61 this year), Costas Mandylor (1965, turns 61 this year), Drena De Niro (1967, turns 59 this year), Catya Sassoon (1968, turns 58 this year), Raymond Coulthard (1968, turns 58 this year), John Fugelsang (1969, turns 57 this year), Noah Baumbach (1969, turns 57 this year), Maria Bamford (1970, turns 56 this year), Scott Robinson (1970, turns 56 this year), Trevor St. John (1971, turns 55 this year), Yuval Segal (1971, turns 55 this year), Maja Ostaszewska (1972, turns 54 this year), Jeroen Van Koningsbrugge (1973, turns 53 this year), Clare Kramer (1974, turns 52 this year), Daniel Chan (1975, turns 51 this year), Ashley Jones (1976, turns 50 this year), Shonka Dukureh (1977, died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 44), Nick Wechsler (1978, turns 48 this year), Nichole Hiltz (1978, turns 48 this year), David Shae (1981, turns 45 this year), Evgenia Brik (1981, died on February 10, 2022 at the age of 40), Angus Sutherland (1982, turns 44 this year), Christine Woods (1983, turns 43 this year), Garrett Hedlund (1984, turns 42 this year), Paz de la Huerta (1984, turns 42 this year), Yūki Kaji (1985, turns 41 this year), Leah McKendrick (1986, turns 40 this year), Shaun White (1986, turns 40 this year), Matteo Simoni (1987, turns 39 this year), Hana Makhmalbaf (1988, turns 38 this year), Rita Volk (1990, turns 36 this year), Nina Kiri (1992, turns 34 this year), Shota Sometani (1992, turns 34 this year), Ashley Boettcher (2000, turns 26 this year), Jack Dylan Grazer (2003, turns 23 this year), Eloise Webb (2003, turns 23 this year)

Died on this day in history: Eugene Pallette (1954, at the age of 55), Frank Capra (1991, at the age of 94), Edward Anhalt (2000, at the age of 86), Michael Clarke Duncan (2012, at the age of 54), Leslie H. Martinson (2016, at the age of 101), John Ashbery (2017, at the age of 90), John Byrne Cooke (2017, at the age of 76), Carol Lynley (2019, at the age of 77), Jacques Charrier (2025, at the age of 88)

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