On This Day - September 11

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 11.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Saturday $15,343,106 $224,543,292
2015 The Perfect Guy Friday $9,911,385 $57,027,435
2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife Saturday $9,809,654 $60,128,566
2015 The Visit Friday $9,207,110 $65,206,105
2017 It Monday $8,761,479 $328,828,874
2009 I Can Do Bad All By Myself Friday $8,600,660 $51,733,921
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Saturday $8,487,303 $50,740,078
2016 Sully Sunday $8,207,498 $125,070,033
1999 The Sixth Sense Saturday $7,423,000 $293,506,292
2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose Sunday $6,821,983 $75,072,454

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 11.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2015 The Perfect Guy Friday $9,911,385 $57,027,435
2015 The Visit Friday $9,207,110 $65,206,105
2009 I Can Do Bad All By Myself Friday $8,600,660 $51,733,921
1998 Rounders Friday $2,745,000 $22,921,898
2009 Sorority Row Friday $1,968,297 $11,965,282
2009 Whiteout Friday $1,770,434 $10,275,638
1998 Simon Birch Friday $905,000 $18,253,415
2015 90 Minutes in Heaven Friday $758,767 $4,816,142
2020 The Broken Hearts Gallery Friday $440,725 $4,066,487
2025 Mirai Thursday $400,000 $1,691,000

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 11.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2016 Sully $35,028,301 $125,070,033
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $34,701,070 $224,543,292
2005 The Exorcism of Emily Rose $30,054,300 $75,072,454
2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife $26,650,264 $60,128,566
2015 The Perfect Guy $25,888,154 $57,027,435
2015 The Visit $25,427,560 $65,206,105
2009 I Can Do Bad All By Myself $23,446,785 $51,733,921
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse $23,036,273 $50,740,078
2011 Contagion $22,403,596 $75,658,097
1999 Stigmata $18,309,666 $50,041,732

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Disney Film, Clayface, Sense and Sensibility

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: D.H. Lawrence (1885, died on March 2, 1930 at the age of 44), Pinto Colvig (1892, died on October 3, 1967 at the age of 75), Herbert Lom (1917, died on September 27, 2012 at the age of 95), Henderson Forsythe (1917, died on April 17, 2006 at the age of 88), Scott Forbes (1920, died on February 25, 1997 at the age of 76), Alan Badel (1923, died on March 19, 1982 at the age of 58), Carol Grace (1924, turned 101 this year), David Morris (1924, died on October 29, 2007 at the age of 83), Alan Bergman (1925, died on July 17, 2025 at the age of 99), Lee Richardson (1926, died on October 2, 1999 at the age of 73), James O'Hara (1927, turned 98 this year), Earl Holliman (1928, died on November 25, 2024 at the age of 96), Eve Brent (1929, turned 96 this year), Ian Abercrombie (1934, died on January 26, 2012 at the age of 77), Pavel Landovsky (1936, died on October 10, 2014 at the age of 78), Tom Dreesen (1939, turned 86 this year), Brian De Palma (1940, turned 85 this year), Stephen Verona (1940, died on July 13, 2019 at the age of 78), Ted Olson (1940, died on November 13, 2024 at the age of 84), Brian Perkins (1943, turned 82 this year), Felton Perry (1945, turned 80 this year), Julie Payne (1946, turned 79 this year), Michael Sacks (1948, turned 77 this year), Amy Madigan (1950, turned 75 this year), Patrick F. McDade (1951, turned 74 this year), Jill James (1952, died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 66), Jenny Gago (1953, turned 72 this year), Reed Birney (1954, turned 71 this year), Tibor Takacs (1954, turned 71 this year), Christian Eisenbeiss (1955, died on March 30, 2017 at the age of 61), Tony Gilroy (1956, turned 69 this year), Adriane Lenox (1956, turned 69 this year), Phoef Sutton (1958, turned 67 this year), Scott Patterson (1958, turned 67 this year), Roxann Dawson (1958, turned 67 this year), Scott Patterson (1958, turned 67 this year), Julia Nickson-Soul (1958, turned 67 this year), John Hawkes (1959, turned 66 this year), Anne Ramsay (1960, turned 65 this year), John Curran (1960, turned 65 this year), Virginia Madsen (1961, turned 64 this year), Elizabeth Daily (1961, turned 64 this year), Susan Gibney (1961, turned 64 this year), Kristy McNichol (1962, turned 63 this year), Kristy McNichol (1962, turned 63 this year), David Valcin (1964, turned 61 this year), Moby (1965, turned 60 this year), Harry Connick, Jr. (1967, turned 58 this year), Paul Mayeda Berges (1968, turned 57 this year), Litefoot (1968, turned 57 this year), Michael Feifer (1968, turned 57 this year), Bertrand Bonello (1968, turned 57 this year), Taraji P. Henson (1970, turned 55 this year), Laura Wright (1970, turned 55 this year), Alessandra Rosaldo (1971, turned 54 this year), Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges (1977, turned 48 this year), Lauren Maher (1977, turned 48 this year), Ariana Richards (1979, turned 46 this year), Cameron Richardson (1979, turned 46 this year), Tiffany Shepis (1979, turned 46 this year), Lachlan Nieboer (1981, turned 44 this year), Shriya Saran (1982, turned 43 this year), Hayden Szeto (1985, turned 40 this year), Nazanin Mandi (1986, turned 39 this year), Tyler Hoechlin (1987, turned 38 this year), Elizabeth Henstridge (1987, turned 38 this year), Arthur Berning (1987, turned 38 this year), Michael J. Willett (1989, turned 36 this year), Charlotte De Bruyne (1990, turned 35 this year), Henry Hopper (1990, turned 35 this year), Mackenzie Aladjem (2001, turned 24 this year)

Died on this day in history: Chester Morris (1970, at the age of 69), Percy Helton (1971, at the age of 77), Lorne Greene (1987, at the age of 72), Jessica Tandy (1994, at the age of 85), Dane Clark (1998, at the age of 86), Kim Hunter (2002, at the age of 79), John Ritter (2003, at the age of 54), Zakes Mokae (2009, at the age of 75), Harold Gould (2010, at the age of 86), Kevin McCarthy (2010, at the age of 96), Joachim Fuchsberger (2014, at the age of 87), Alan Purwin (2015, at the age of 87), Alexis Arquette (2016, at the age of 47), Peter Hall (2017, at the age of 86), Mardik Martin (2019, at the age of 82), Alain Tanner (2022, at the age of 92)

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