On This Day - September 5
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Conjuring: Last Rites | Friday | $34,652,525 | $177,753,512 |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Sunday | $22,696,386 | $224,543,292 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Sunday | $8,820,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2011 | The Help | Monday | $5,286,948 | $169,705,587 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Saturday | $4,551,785 | $66,477,700 |
| 2010 | The American | Sunday | $4,491,927 | $35,606,376 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Saturday | $4,076,522 | $120,774,594 |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Saturday | $4,003,566 | $33,862,903 |
| 2025 | Hamilton | Friday | $3,931,901 | $16,946,377 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | Monday | $3,874,704 | $89,217,875 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Conjuring: Last Rites | Friday | $34,652,525 | $177,753,512 |
| 2025 | Hamilton | Friday | $3,931,901 | $16,946,377 |
| 2008 | Bangkok Dangerous | Friday | $2,742,090 | $15,298,133 |
| 2003 | Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | Friday | $2,049,000 | $22,734,486 |
| 1997 | Fire Down Below | Friday | $1,817,651 | $16,148,906 |
| 2003 | The Order | Friday | $1,589,000 | $7,659,747 |
| 2025 | Light of the World | Friday | $705,747 | $5,213,377 |
| 2014 | The Identical | Friday | $532,544 | $2,827,666 |
| 2025 | The Threesome | Friday | $476,854 | $703,913 |
| 2019 | K-12 | Thursday | $303,230 | $303,230 |
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 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Conjuring: Last Rites | $84,006,121 | $177,753,512 |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | $75,388,688 | $224,543,292 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $29,271,146 | $293,506,292 |
| 2020 | Tenet | $20,001,852 | $59,473,550 |
| 1993 | The Fugitive | $17,239,413 | $183,968,665 |
| 2010 | The American | $13,177,790 | $35,606,376 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | $12,368,882 | $66,477,700 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | $11,629,393 | $120,774,594 |
| 2010 | Machete | $11,416,164 | $26,593,646 |
| 2009 | All About Steve | $11,241,214 | $33,862,903 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Darryl F. Zanuck (1902, died on December 22, 1979 at the age of 77), Frank Thomas (1912, died on September 8, 2004 at the age of 92), Stuart Freeborn (1914, died on February 5, 2013 at the age of 98), Paul Volcker (1927, died on December 8, 2019 at the age of 92), Bob Newhart (1929, died on July 18, 2024 at the age of 94), Edward S. Feldman (1929, died on October 2, 2020 at the age of 91), Dennis Letts (1934, died on February 22, 2008 at the age of 73), Alejandro Sieveking (1934, died on March 5, 2020 at the age of 85), Dick Clement (1937, turned 88 this year), George Lazenby (1939, turned 86 this year), William Devane (1939, turned 86 this year), Stephen Lawrence (1939, died on December 30, 2021 at the age of 82), Raquel Welch (1940, died on February 15, 2023 at the age of 82), Werner Herzog (1942, turned 83 this year), Jack Charles (1943, died on September 13, 2022 at the age of 79), Dennis Dugan (1946, turned 79 this year), Freddie Mercury (1946, turned 79 this year), Michael Keaton (1951, turned 74 this year), Debbie Turner (1956, turned 69 this year), Graham Yost (1959, turned 66 this year), Denis Forest (1960, died on March 18, 2002 at the age of 41), Peter Wingfield (1962, turned 63 this year), Matthew Barry (1962, turned 63 this year), Terry Ellis (1963, turned 62 this year), Thomas Mikal Ford (1964, died on October 12, 2016 at the age of 52), Sergei Loznitsa (1964, turned 61 this year), Christopher Morris (1965, turned 60 this year), Achero Manas (1966, turned 59 this year), Dweezil Zappa (1969, turned 56 this year), Johnny Vegas (1970, turned 55 this year), Liam Lynch (1970, turned 55 this year), Lucy Decoutere (1970, turned 55 this year), Hye-su Kim (1970, turned 55 this year), Rose McGowan (1973, turned 52 this year), Paddy Considine (1973, turned 52 this year), Carice van Houten (1976, turned 49 this year), Joey Kern (1976, turned 49 this year), Laura Bertram (1978, turned 47 this year), Nan Yu (1978, turned 47 this year), Annabelle Wallis (1984, turned 41 this year), Christine Marzano (1986, turned 39 this year), Korrina Rico (1987, turned 38 this year), Josefina Scaglione (1987, turned 38 this year), Kat Graham (1989, turned 36 this year), Max Mittelman (1990, turned 35 this year), Skandar Keynes (1991, turned 34 this year), Paulina Singer (1991, turned 34 this year), Gage Golightly (1993, turned 32 this year), Caroline Sunshine (1995, turned 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: Gert Fröbe (1988, at the age of 75), Leo Penn (1998, at the age of 77), Cliff Gorman (2002, at the age of 65), Donald Ranvaud (2016, at the age of 62), Hugh O’Brian (2016, at the age of 91), Hansford Rowe (2017, at the age of 93), Christopher Lawford (2018, at the age of 63), Jiri Menzel (2020, at the age of 82), Tony Selby (2021, at the age of 83), Laurent Tirard (2024, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.