On This Day - January 30

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 30.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 Saturday $18,157,304 $143,528,619
2010 Avatar Saturday $13,783,881 $785,221,649
2015 American Sniper Friday $9,905,616 $350,126,372
2009 Taken Friday $9,417,370 $145,000,989
2010 Edge of Darkness Saturday $7,152,805 $43,313,890
1999 She’s All That Saturday $7,000,000 $63,465,522
1998 Titanic Friday $6,652,831 $674,460,013
2004 You Got Served Friday $6,000,000 $40,066,497
2016 The Revenant Saturday $5,792,015 $183,637,894
2005 Hide and Seek Sunday $5,356,517 $51,100,486

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 30.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2009 Taken Friday $9,417,370 $145,000,989
2004 You Got Served Friday $6,000,000 $40,066,497
2009 The Uninvited Friday $4,350,350 $28,596,818
1998 Great Expectations Friday $3,545,000 $26,333,044
2015 Project Almanac Friday $3,171,265 $22,348,241
2009 New in Town Friday $2,436,915 $16,734,283
2015 Black or White Friday $2,250,667 $21,571,189
2004 The Perfect Score Friday $2,100,000 $10,387,706
1998 Desperate Measures Friday $1,740,000 $13,678,274
1998 Deep Rising Friday $1,430,000 $11,203,026

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 30.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 $41,282,042 $143,528,619
2010 Avatar $31,280,029 $785,221,649
2015 American Sniper $30,660,528 $350,126,372
1998 Titanic $25,907,172 $674,460,013
2009 Taken $24,717,037 $145,000,989
2005 Hide and Seek $21,959,233 $51,100,486
2010 Edge of Darkness $17,214,384 $43,313,890
2005 Are We There Yet? $16,346,395 $82,674,398
2004 You Got Served $16,123,105 $40,066,497
1999 She’s All That $16,065,430 $63,465,522

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Melania, The Love That Remains, The Moment, Paying for It, Iron Lung, Worldbreaker, Send Help, Islands, Moses the Black, Pike River, Natchez, Shelter, A Poet, Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Hugh Marlowe (1911, died on May 2, 1982 at the age of 71), David Wayne (1914, died on February 9, 1995 at the age of 81), John Ireland (1914, died on March 21, 1992 at the age of 78), Dick Martin (1922, died on May 24, 2008 at the age of 86), Harold Prince (1928, died on July 31, 2019 at the age of 91), Gene Hackman (1930, died on February 26, 2025 at the age of 95), Gino Conforti (1932, turns 94 this year), Tammy Grimes (1934, died on October 30, 2016 at the age of 82), Vanessa Redgrave (1937, turns 89 this year), Nick Broomfield (1948, turns 78 this year), Charles S. Dutton (1951, turns 75 this year), Phil Collins (1951, turns 75 this year), Steven Zaillian (1953, turns 73 this year), Ann Dowd (1956, turns 70 this year), Brett Butler (1958, turns 68 this year), Dwier Brown (1959, turns 67 this year), Alex Hyde-White (1959, turns 67 this year), Anthony Hickox (1959, died on October 9, 2023 at the age of 64), Tony O'Dell (1960, turns 66 this year), Tina Malone (1963, turns 63 this year), Julie McCullough (1965, turns 61 this year), Wayne Wilderson (1966, turns 60 this year), Norbert Leo Butz (1967, turns 59 this year), Ali Marsh (1970, turns 56 this year), Darren Boyd (1971, turns 55 this year), Jordan Prentice (1973, turns 53 this year), Christian Bale (1974, turns 52 this year), Olivia Colman (1974, turns 52 this year), Andy Milonakis (1976, turns 50 this year), Wilmer Valderrama (1980, turns 46 this year), Lena Hall (1980, turns 46 this year), Josh Kelley (1980, turns 46 this year), Margot Finley (1980, turns 46 this year), Kid Cudi (1984, turns 42 this year), Michael Aloni (1984, turns 42 this year), Chad Power (1984, turns 42 this year), Valene Kane (1987, turns 39 this year), Rob Pinkston (1988, turns 38 this year), Kylie Bunbury (1989, turns 37 this year), Khleo Thomas (1989, turns 37 this year), Eiza González (1990, turns 36 this year), Jake Thomas (1990, turns 36 this year), Danielle Campbell (1995, turns 31 this year), Alana Cavanaugh (2007, turns 19 this year)

Died on this day in history: Stanley Holloway (1982, at the age of 91), John McIntire (1991, at the age of 83), Arthur Rankin Jr. (2014, at the age of 89), Geraldine McEwan (2015, at the age of 82), Frank Finlay (2016, at the age of 89), Mark Salling (2018, at the age of 35), Louis Zorich (2018, at the age of 93), Marty Thomas (2019, at the age of 60), Diane Gaidry (2019, at the age of 54), Dick Miller (2019, at the age of 90), Chita Rivera (2024, at the age of 91), Marianne Faithfull (2025, at the age of 78)

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