On This Day - February 8
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Saturday | $30,813,599 | $258,364,131 |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Sunday | $16,372,597 | $162,994,032 |
| 2020 | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Saturday | $12,193,732 | $84,158,461 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Friday | $11,087,755 | $134,506,920 |
| 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Saturday | $10,056,761 | $105,807,520 |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | Saturday | $9,609,847 | $78,031,620 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | Friday | $8,461,120 | $105,806,508 |
| 2003 | Shanghai Knights | Saturday | $8,330,676 | $60,470,220 |
| 2008 | Fool’s Gold | Friday | $7,514,370 | $70,231,041 |
| 2025 | Dog Man | Saturday | $7,357,190 | $97,970,355 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Friday | $11,087,755 | $134,506,920 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | Friday | $8,461,120 | $105,806,508 |
| 2008 | Fool’s Gold | Friday | $7,514,370 | $70,231,041 |
| 2019 | What Men Want | Friday | $6,590,556 | $54,611,903 |
| 2008 | Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Friday | $4,905,285 | $42,436,517 |
| 2002 | Collateral Damage | Friday | $4,773,000 | $40,048,332 |
| 2019 | Cold Pursuit | Friday | $3,649,657 | $32,138,862 |
| 2002 | Rollerball | Friday | $2,920,000 | $18,990,542 |
| 2013 | Side Effects | Friday | $2,800,011 | $32,172,757 |
| 2002 | Big Fat Liar | Friday | $2,523,000 | $47,811,275 |
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 8.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | $69,050,279 | $258,364,131 |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | $55,365,012 | $162,994,032 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | $34,551,025 | $134,506,920 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | $34,115,335 | $105,806,508 |
| 2020 | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | $33,010,017 | $84,158,461 |
| 2009 | He’s Just Not That Into You | $27,785,487 | $93,953,653 |
| 1997 | Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope | $24,277,091 | $460,998,007 |
| 2004 | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | $24,241,612 | $65,070,412 |
| 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | $23,774,850 | $105,807,520 |
| 2015 | American Sniper | $23,289,113 | $350,126,372 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charles Ruggles (1886, died on December 23, 1970 at the age of 84), King Vidor (1894, died on November 1, 1982 at the age of 88), Betty Field (1913, died on September 13, 1973 at the age of 60), Lana Turner (1921, died on June 29, 1995 at the age of 74), Audrey Meadows (1922, died on February 3, 1996 at the age of 73), Jack Lemmon (1925, died on June 27, 2001 at the age of 76), Jack Larson (1928, died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 87), Claude Rich (1929, died on July 20, 2017 at the age of 88), James Dean (1931, died on September 30, 1955 at the age of 24), John Williams (1932, turns 94 this year), Nick Nolte (1941, turns 85 this year), Robert Klein (1942, turns 84 this year), Creed Bratton (1943, turns 83 this year), Richard Durden (1944, turns 82 this year), Sebastiao Salgado (1944, died on May 23, 2025 at the age of 81), Niels Arestrup (1949, died on December 1, 2024 at the age of 75), Brooke Adams (1949, turns 77 this year), George Cheung (1949, turns 77 this year), Carolyn Pickles (1952, turns 74 this year), Mary Steenburgen (1953, turns 73 this year), Ethan Phillips (1955, turns 71 this year), John Grisham (1955, turns 71 this year), Kambuzia Partovi (1956, died on November 24, 2020 at the age of 64), Henry Czerny (1959, turns 67 this year), Toby Emmerich (1963, turns 63 this year), Santosh Sivan (1964, turns 62 this year), Larry Clarke (1964, turns 62 this year), Mathilda May (1965, turns 61 this year), Gary Coleman (1968, died on May 28, 2010 at the age of 42), Missy Yager (1968, turns 58 this year), Mary McCormack (1969, turns 57 this year), Stephanie Courtney (1970, turns 56 this year), Enid Graham (1970, turns 56 this year), Susan Misner (1971, turns 55 this year), Paul "Big Show" Wight (1972, turns 54 this year), Brendan Wayne (1972, turns 54 this year), Seth Green (1974, turns 52 this year), Susan May Pratt (1974, turns 52 this year), Pooch Hall (1976, turns 50 this year), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (1976, turns 50 this year), Josh Keaton (1979, turns 47 this year), William Jackson Harper (1980, turns 46 this year), Dawn Olivieri (1981, turns 45 this year), Jim Parrack (1981, turns 45 this year), Liam McIntyre (1982, turns 44 this year), Cecily Strong (1984, turns 42 this year), Anna Hutchison (1986, turns 40 this year), Ryan Pinkston (1988, turns 38 this year), Brittany Bristow (1990, turns 36 this year), Roger Lloyd-Pack (1994, died on January 15, 2014 at the age of 19), Jordan Todosey (1995, turns 31 this year), Kathryn Newton (1997, turns 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Anna Nicole Smith (2007, at the age of 39), Alan Sharp (2013, at the age of 79), Marie Gruber (2018, at the age of 62), Joachim Tomaschewsky (2019, at the age of 99), Carl Aldana (2019, at the age of 80), Grazia Volpi (2020, at the age of 78), Ron McLarty (2020, at the age of 72), Mary Wilson (2021, at the age of 76), Jean-Claude Carriere (2021, at the age of 89), Lucy Roucis (2021, at the age of 61), Rynagh O'Grady (2021, at the age of 66), Burt Bacharach (2023, at the age of 94)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.