On This Day - February 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Black Panther | Saturday | $47,553,478 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Sunday | $15,356,250 | $160,799,505 |
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | Saturday | $9,034,728 | $115,802,596 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Friday | $8,329,121 | $214,504,909 |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Saturday | $7,280,000 | $165,092,266 |
| 2018 | Game Night | Saturday | $6,977,434 | $69,179,066 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Get Out | Friday | $10,834,915 | $175,837,935 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | Friday | $10,466,147 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | Friday | $9,046,858 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | Friday | $8,688,985 | $64,670,240 |
| 2023 | Jesus Revolution | Friday | $6,965,536 | $52,102,987 |
| 2012 | Tyler Perry's Good Deeds | Friday | $5,312,688 | $35,025,791 |
| 2012 | Wanderlust | Friday | $2,172,165 | $17,288,155 |
| 2012 | Gone | Friday | $1,662,955 | $11,682,205 |
| 2006 | Running Scared | Friday | $1,000,000 | $6,855,137 |
| 2017 | Rock Dog | Friday | $899,598 | $9,420,546 |
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 24.
| 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 |
| 2017 | Get Out | $33,377,060 | $175,837,935 |
| 2023 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | $31,964,803 | $214,504,909 |
| 2006 | Madea’s Family Reunion | $30,030,661 | $63,257,940 |
| 2012 | Act of Valor | $24,476,632 | $70,012,847 |
| 2023 | Cocaine Bear | $23,260,790 | $64,670,240 |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | $22,874,936 | $72,266,306 |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider | $20,067,443 | $115,802,596 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | $19,208,097 | $175,750,384 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Marjorie Main (1890, died on April 10, 1975 at the age of 85), Richard Thorpe (1896, died on May 1, 1991 at the age of 95), Abe Vigoda (1921, died on January 26, 2016 at the age of 94), Steven Hill (1922, died on August 23, 2016 at the age of 94), Emmanuelle Riva (1927, died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 89), Dominic Chianese Sr. (1931, turns 95 this year), John Vernon (1932, died on February 1, 2005 at the age of 72), Michel Legrand (1932, died on January 26, 2019 at the age of 86), James Farentino (1938, died on January 24, 2012 at the age of 73), Marisa Mell (1939, turns 87 this year), Paul Jones (1942, turns 84 this year), Jenny O Hara (1942, turns 84 this year), Pablo Milanes (1943, died on November 22, 2022 at the age of 79), Barry Bostwick (1945, turns 81 this year), Mike Hodge (1947, died on September 9, 2017 at the age of 70), Edward James Olmos (1947, turns 79 this year), Dennis Waterman (1948, died on May 8, 2022 at the age of 74), Helen Shaver (1951, turns 75 this year), Debra Jo Rupp (1951, turns 75 this year), Steve Jobs (1955, died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56), Alessandro D'Alatri (1955, died on May 3, 2023 at the age of 68), Howard Bragman (1956, died on February 11, 2023 at the age of 66), Mark Moses (1958, turns 68 this year), Beth Broderick (1959, turns 67 this year), Emilio Rivera (1961, turns 65 this year), Kasi Lemmons (1961, turns 65 this year), Todd Field (1964, turns 62 this year), Bas Rutten (1965, turns 61 this year), Billy Zane (1966, turns 60 this year), Ben Miller (1966, turns 60 this year), Karina Logue (1966, turns 60 this year), Martha Kelly (1968, turns 58 this year), Jonathan Ward (1970, turns 56 this year), Gillian Flynn (1971, turns 55 this year), James Bachman (1972, turns 54 this year), Bonnie Somerville (1974, turns 52 this year), Kirill Karo (1975, turns 51 this year), Kate Mulvany (1977, turns 49 this year), Nicole Lyn (1978, turns 48 this year), Wilson Bethel (1984, turns 42 this year), Jessica-Jane Stafford (1985, turns 41 this year), Bryce Papenbrook (1986, turns 40 this year), Benny Safdie (1986, turns 40 this year), Tina Desai (1987, turns 39 this year), Alexander Koch (1988, turns 38 this year), Daniel Kaluuya (1989, turns 37 this year), O'Shea Jackson, Jr. (1991, turns 35 this year), Laurie Kynaston (1994, turns 32 this year), Ramona Marquez (2001, turns 25 this year), Matthew Broome (2001, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Conrad Nagel (1970, at the age of 72), Henny Youngman (1998, at the age of 91), Alberto Sordi (2003, at the age of 82), John Randolph (2004, at the age of 88), Dennis Weaver (2006, at the age of 81), Don Knotts (2006, at the age of 81), Bruce Bennett (2007, at the age of 100), Harold Ramis (2014, at the age of 69), Bud Luckey (2018, at the age of 83), Sridevi (2018, at the age of 54), Paul Blackwell (2019, at the age of 64), Ronald Pickup (2021, at the age of 80), Alan Robert Murray (2021, at the age of 65), Sally Kellerman (2022, at the age of 84), Gordon Pinsent (2023, at the age of 92), Juraj Jakubisko (2023, at the age of 84), Kenneth Mitchell (2024, at the age of 49), Roberta Flack (2025, at the age of 88), Al Trautwig (2025, at the age of 68)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.