On This Day - March 6
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Saturday | $44,209,073 | $334,191,110 |
| 2022 | The Batman | Sunday | $34,138,236 | $369,612,903 |
| 2009 | Watchmen | Friday | $24,515,772 | $107,509,799 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Sunday | $23,927,191 | $341,268,248 |
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Saturday | $21,929,043 | $370,782,930 |
| 2020 | Onward | Friday | $12,096,726 | $61,555,145 |
| 2011 | Rango | Sunday | $11,868,857 | $123,477,607 |
| 2004 | Starsky & Hutch | Saturday | $11,675,781 | $88,200,225 |
| 2005 | The Pacifier | Sunday | $8,373,010 | $113,006,880 |
| 2004 | Hidalgo | Saturday | $8,074,900 | $67,286,731 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Watchmen | Friday | $24,515,772 | $107,509,799 |
| 2020 | Onward | Friday | $12,096,726 | $61,555,145 |
| 1998 | U.S. Marshals | Friday | $5,105,000 | $57,833,603 |
| 2015 | Chappie | Friday | $4,534,152 | $31,569,268 |
| 2015 | The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Friday | $2,698,898 | $33,078,266 |
| 2020 | The Way Back | Friday | $2,617,147 | $13,590,514 |
| 1998 | Hush | Friday | $1,965,000 | $13,587,246 |
| 2015 | Unfinished Business | Friday | $1,802,993 | $10,219,501 |
| 1998 | The Big Lebowski | Friday | $1,670,000 | $19,120,853 |
| 1998 | Twilight | Friday | $1,665,000 | $15,055,091 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 6.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Batman | $134,008,624 | $369,612,903 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $116,101,023 | $334,191,110 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | $75,063,401 | $341,268,248 |
| 2009 | Watchmen | $55,214,334 | $107,509,799 |
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | $53,246,801 | $370,782,930 |
| 2020 | Onward | $39,119,861 | $61,555,145 |
| 2011 | Rango | $38,079,323 | $123,477,607 |
| 2005 | The Pacifier | $30,552,694 | $113,006,880 |
| 2004 | Starsky & Hutch | $28,103,367 | $88,200,225 |
| 2005 | Be Cool | $23,450,212 | $55,849,401 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Youngblood, For Worse, Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead, Dolly, Silver Star, Hoppers, The Bride!, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, André is an Idiot
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Jay C. Flippen (1899, died on February 3, 1971 at the age of 71), Lou Costello (1906, died on March 3, 1959 at the age of 52), Bélgica Castro (1921, died on March 6, 2020 at the age of 99), Andrzej Wajda (1926, died on October 9, 2016 at the age of 90), Hal Needham (1931, died on October 25, 2013 at the age of 82), Mary Wilson (1944, died on February 8, 2021 at the age of 76), Rob Reiner (1947, died on December 14, 2025 at the age of 78), Martin Kove (1947, turns 79 this year), Anna Maria Horsford (1948, turns 78 this year), Jery Hewitt (1949, died on November 21, 2020 at the age of 71), Steve Golin (1955, died on April 21, 2019 at the age of 64), Alberta Watson (1955, died on March 21, 2015 at the age of 60), James Saito (1955, turns 71 this year), Larry Cedar (1955, turns 71 this year), Denise DuBarry (1956, died on March 23, 2019 at the age of 63), Eddie Deezen (1957, turns 69 this year), Alex McArthur (1957, turns 69 this year), Tom Arnold (1959, turns 67 this year), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (1962, turns 64 this year), D.L. Hughley (1963, turns 63 this year), D.L. Hughley (1963, turns 63 this year), Sherrie Wills (1967, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 53), Connie Britton (1967, turns 59 this year), Moira Kelly (1968, turns 58 this year), Vincent Gale (1968, turns 58 this year), Amy Pietz (1969, turns 57 this year), Erica Shaffer (1970, turns 56 this year), Shane Brolly (1970, turns 56 this year), Shaquille O'Neal (1972, turns 54 this year), Shaun Evans (1980, turns 46 this year), Ellen Muth (1981, turns 45 this year), Leila Bekhti (1984, turns 42 this year), Yael Stone (1985, turns 41 this year), Eli Marienthal (1986, turns 40 this year), Joel Palmer (1986, turns 40 this year), Amy Okuda (1989, turns 37 this year), Clara Lago (1990, turns 36 this year), Elise Eberle (1993, turns 33 this year), Rosie Day (1995, turns 31 this year), Dillon Freasier (1996, turns 30 this year), Alisha Boe (1997, turns 29 this year), Dylan Schmid (1999, turns 27 this year), Jacob Bertrand (2000, turns 26 this year), Milo Manheim (2001, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: George Formby (1961, at the age of 56), William Hopper (1970, at the age of 55), Henry Wilcoxon (1984, at the age of 78), Harry Andrews (1989, at the age of 77), Melina Mercouri (1994, at the age of 73), Kim Walker (2001, at the age of 32), Teresa Wright (2005, at the age of 86), Robert B. Sherman (2012, at the age of 86), Robert Osborne (2017, at the age of 84), Shammi (2018, at the age of 88), David Paul (2020, at the age of 62), Bélgica Castro (2020, at the age of 99)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.