On This Day - September 1

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 1.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2023 The Equalizer 3 Friday $13,045,955 $92,373,751
2007 Halloween Saturday $8,554,661 $58,269,151
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Saturday $7,896,679 $174,532,921
2012 The Possession Saturday $6,327,200 $49,130,588
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine Sunday $5,906,987 $636,745,858
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Monday $5,824,589 $333,714,112
2013 Lee Daniels’ The Butler Sunday $5,696,673 $116,632,095
2002 Signs Sunday $5,025,907 $227,969,295
2013 We’re the Millers Sunday $5,009,879 $150,394,119
2019 Angel Has Fallen Sunday $4,559,659 $69,030,436

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 1.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2023 The Equalizer 3 Friday $13,045,955 $92,373,751
2006 Crank Friday $3,344,629 $27,838,408
2006 The Wicker Man Friday $2,843,366 $24,413,467
2000 Highlander: Endgame Friday $1,875,000 $12,801,190
2010 The American Wednesday $1,674,363 $35,606,376
2006 Crossover Friday $1,187,505 $7,009,668
2000 Whipped Friday $704,000 $4,142,507
2004 Vanity Fair Wednesday $607,000 $16,123,851
2017 Inhumans Friday $500,000 $1,521,787
1999 Chill Factor Wednesday $428,136 $11,263,966

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 1.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2023 The Equalizer 3 $34,604,229 $92,373,751
2007 Halloween $26,362,367 $58,269,151
2018 Crazy Rich Asians $21,964,345 $174,532,921
2012 The Possession $17,732,480 $49,130,588
2013 One Direction: This is Us $15,815,497 $28,873,374
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine $15,469,312 $636,745,858
2013 Lee Daniels’ The Butler $14,878,286 $116,632,095
2000 Bring it On $14,170,825 $68,353,550
2002 Signs $13,440,774 $227,969,295
2001 Jeepers Creepers $13,106,108 $37,904,175

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Richard Arlen (1899, died on March 28, 1976 at the age of 76), Don Wilson (1900, died on April 25, 1982 at the age of 81), Harry Stradling Sr. (1901, died on February 14, 1970 at the age of 68), Johnny Mack Brown (1904, died on November 14, 1974 at the age of 70), Richard Farnsworth (1920, died on October 6, 2000 at the age of 80), Vittorio Gassman (1922, died on June 29, 2000 at the age of 77), Yvonne De Carlo (1922, died on January 8, 2007 at the age of 84), Yvonne De Carlo (1922, died on January 8, 2007 at the age of 84), Tomisaburo Wakayama (1929, died on April 2, 1992 at the age of 62), Zitto Kazann (1930, died on February 5, 2021 at the age of 90), Glenn R. Wilder (1933, turns 93 this year), Per Kirkeby (1938, died on May 9, 2018 at the age of 79), Lily Tomlin (1939, turns 87 this year), Don Stroud (1943, turns 83 this year), John Lodge (1943, died on October 10, 2025 at the age of 82), Beau Starr (1944, turns 82 this year), Susan Backlinie (1946, died on May 11, 2024 at the age of 77), James Rebhorn (1948, died on March 21, 2014 at the age of 65), Luminita Gheorghiu (1949, died on July 4, 2021 at the age of 71), Michael Massee (1952, died on October 20, 2016 at the age of 64), Phil Hendrie (1952, turns 74 this year), F. X. Feeney (1953, died on February 5, 2020 at the age of 66), Will Nye (1953, turns 73 this year), Billy Blanks (1955, turns 71 this year), Diane Goldner (1956, turns 70 this year), Gloria Estefan (1957, turns 69 this year), Nelson George (1957, turns 69 this year), Michelle Meyrink (1962, turns 64 this year), Kevin McClatchy (1963, turns 63 this year), Welker White (1964, turns 62 this year), Craig McLachlan (1965, turns 61 this year), Craig Gillespie (1967, turns 59 this year), Uta Briesewitz (1967, turns 59 this year), Hwang Jung-min (1970, turns 56 this year), Padma Lakshmi (1970, turns 56 this year), Maury Sterling (1971, turns 55 this year), Ricardo Chavira (1971, turns 55 this year), Dave Wittenberg (1971, turns 55 this year), Courtney Solomon (1971, turns 55 this year), Rachel Zoe (1971, turns 55 this year), Ram Kapoor (1973, turns 53 this year), Polly Shannon (1973, turns 53 this year), Burn Gorman (1974, turns 52 this year), Scott Speedman (1975, turns 51 this year), Jenae Altschwager (1976, turns 50 this year), Adrienne Wilkinson (1977, turns 49 this year), Camille Chen (1979, turns 47 this year), Justice Leak (1979, turns 47 this year), Lara Pulver (1980, turns 46 this year), Laetitia Dosch (1980, turns 46 this year), Boyd Holbrook (1981, turns 45 this year), Michael Adamthwaite (1981, turns 45 this year), Stephen Plunkett (1981, turns 45 this year), Zoe Lister-Jones (1982, turns 44 this year), Camille Mana (1983, turns 43 this year), Nana Ghana (1983, turns 43 this year), Ludwig Göransson (1984, turns 42 this year), Jack Roth (1984, turns 42 this year), Tim Realbuto (1984, turns 42 this year), Lilan Bowden (1985, turns 41 this year), Aisling Loftus (1990, turns 36 this year), Zendaya (1996, turns 30 this year), Taylor Blackwell (1998, turns 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Murray Hamilton (1986, at the age of 63), Michael Pate (2008, at the age of 88), Jerry Reed (2008, at the age of 71), Dean Jones (2015, at the age of 84), Jon Polito (2016, at the age of 65), Shelley Berman (2017, at the age of 92), Elizabeth Kemp (2017, at the age of 65), Peadar Lamb (2017, at the age of 86), Novella Nelson (2017, at the age of 78), Arthur Wooster (2020, at the age of 91), Barbara Ehrenreich (2022, at the age of 80), Jimmy Buffett (2023, at the age of 76), Bill Richardson (2023, at the age of 75), Graham Greene (2025, at the age of 73)

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