On This Day - February 23

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 23.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther Friday $28,789,877 $700,059,566
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Saturday $22,289,305 $160,799,505
2008 Vantage Point Saturday $9,940,407 $72,266,306
2014 The Lego Movie Sunday $9,550,587 $258,364,131
2025 Captain America: Brave New World Sunday $8,020,294 $200,500,001
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog Sunday $7,871,248 $146,066,470
2013 Identity Thief Saturday $6,668,780 $134,506,920
2020 The Call of the Wild Sunday $6,616,300 $62,342,368
2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles Saturday $6,042,362 $71,195,053
2007 Ghost Rider Friday $5,895,703 $115,802,596

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 23.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2007 The Number 23 Friday $5,800,000 $35,193,167
2024 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—To the Hashira Training (鬼滅の刃 柱稽古編) Friday $5,602,987 $17,657,658
2018 Game Night Friday $5,596,003 $69,179,066
2007 Reno 911!: Miami Friday $4,099,371 $20,342,161
2018 Annihilation Friday $3,866,815 $32,732,301
2024 Ordinary Angels Friday $2,327,954 $19,174,421
2001 3000 Miles to Graceland Friday $2,185,000 $15,738,632
2017 Is Genesis History? Thursday $1,712,472 $2,570,355
2007 Amazing Grace Friday $1,400,000 $21,214,987
2007 The Astronaut Farmer Friday $1,368,337 $11,003,643

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 23.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther $111,658,835 $700,059,566
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World $55,022,245 $160,799,505
2014 The Lego Movie $31,305,359 $258,364,131
2025 Captain America: Brave New World $28,170,093 $200,500,001
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog $26,192,294 $146,066,470
2020 The Call of the Wild $24,791,624 $62,342,368
2008 Vantage Point $22,874,936 $72,266,306
1997 Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back $21,975,993 $291,738,960
2007 Ghost Rider $20,067,443 $115,802,596
2003 Daredevil $18,092,309 $102,543,518

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Victor Fleming (1889, died on January 6, 1949 at the age of 59), Norman Taurog (1899, died on April 7, 1981 at the age of 82), Terence Fisher (1904, died on June 18, 1980 at the age of 76), Jon Hall (1915, died on December 13, 1979 at the age of 64), Claude Sautet (1924, died on July 22, 2000 at the age of 76), Dorothy Steel (1926, died on October 15, 2021 at the age of 95), Joseph Koo (1931, died on January 3, 2023 at the age of 91), Majel Barrett (1932, died on December 18, 2008 at the age of 76), Federico Luppi (1936, died on October 20, 2017 at the age of 81), Paul Morrissey (1938, died on October 28, 2024 at the age of 86), Jiri Menzel (1938, died on September 5, 2020 at the age of 82), Alan Ford (1938, turns 88 this year), Denis Arndt (1939, died on March 25, 2025 at the age of 86), Peter Fonda (1940, died on August 16, 2019 at the age of 79), George Gerdes (1948, died on January 1, 2021 at the age of 72), Mary Pat Gleason (1950, died on June 2, 2020 at the age of 70), Patricia Richardson (1951, turns 75 this year), Kenny Bee (1953, turns 73 this year), Howard Jones (1955, turns 71 this year), David Warshofsky (1961, turns 65 this year), Nigel Whitmey (1963, turns 63 this year), Ronan Vibert (1964, died on December 22, 2022 at the age of 58), Kristin Davis (1965, turns 61 this year), Veronica Webb (1965, turns 61 this year), Marc Price (1968, turns 58 this year), Niecy Nash (1970, turns 56 this year), Marie-Josee Croze (1970, turns 56 this year), Callan Mulvey (1975, turns 51 this year), Robert Lopez (1975, turns 51 this year), Kelly Macdonald (1976, turns 50 this year), Lorne Balfe (1976, turns 50 this year), Kris Lemche (1978, turns 48 this year), Josh Gad (1981, turns 45 this year), Inna Korobkina (1981, turns 45 this year), Adam Hann-Byrd (1982, turns 44 this year), Emily Blunt (1983, turns 43 this year), Aziz Ansari (1983, turns 43 this year), Emily Cox (1985, turns 41 this year), Samara Weaving (1992, turns 34 this year), Dakota Fanning (1994, turns 32 this year), James Paxton (1994, turns 32 this year), Cameron Palatas (1994, turns 32 this year), Christian Martyn (2000, turns 26 this year), Emilia Jones (2002, turns 24 this year)

Died on this day in history: Stan Laurel (1965, at the age of 74), Esmond Knight (1987, at the age of 80), Philip Terry (1993, at the age of 83), Robert Enrico (2001, at the age of 69), James Colby (2018, at the age of 56), Stanley Donen (2019, at the age of 94), Don Brady (2019, at the age of 85), Katherine Helmond (2019, at the age of 89), John Motson (2023, at the age of 77), Chris Gauthier (2024, at the age of 48)

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