On This Day - September 15

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 15.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2017 It Friday $19,162,071 $328,828,874
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Sunday $14,370,215 $294,100,435
2019 It: Chapter Two Sunday $9,448,683 $211,593,228
2018 The Predator Saturday $8,394,521 $51,024,708
2019 Hustlers Sunday $7,881,166 $104,963,598
2018 The Nun Saturday $7,658,704 $117,450,119
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution Saturday $7,634,314 $42,345,531
2012 Finding Nemo Saturday $7,009,590 $380,529,370
2013 Insidious Chapter 2 Sunday $6,643,342 $83,586,447
2018 A Simple Favor Saturday $6,306,587 $53,548,586

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 15.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2017 American Assassin Friday $5,783,488 $36,249,674
2023 A Haunting in Venice Friday $5,542,594 $42,471,412
2006 Gridiron Gang Friday $4,804,783 $38,432,823
2006 The Black Dahlia Friday $3,706,290 $22,672,813
2017 mother! Friday $3,091,084 $17,800,004
2006 The Last Kiss Friday $1,751,094 $11,614,790
2000 Bait Friday $1,668,000 $15,325,127
2006 Everyone's Hero Friday $1,617,031 $14,523,101
2000 Almost Famous Friday $738,000 $32,522,352
2000 Duets Friday $724,000 $4,734,235

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 15.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2017 It $60,103,110 $328,828,874
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $51,350,355 $294,100,435
2013 Insidious Chapter 2 $40,272,103 $83,586,447
2019 It: Chapter Two $39,606,550 $211,593,228
2019 Hustlers $33,181,361 $104,963,598
2018 The Predator $24,632,284 $51,024,708
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution $21,052,227 $42,345,531
2002 Barbershop $20,627,433 $75,781,642
2018 The Nun $18,238,263 $117,450,119
2012 Finding Nemo $16,687,773 $380,529,370

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Agatha Christie (1890, died on January 12, 1976 at the age of 85), Jean Renoir (1894, died on February 12, 1979 at the age of 84), Jacques Becker (1906, died on February 21, 1960 at the age of 53), Fay Wray (1907, died on August 8, 2004 at the age of 96), Penny Singleton (1908, died on November 12, 2003 at the age of 95), Joseph Pevney (1911, died on May 18, 2008 at the age of 96), Nelson Gidding (1919, died on May 1, 2004 at the age of 84), James Jeter (1921, turned 104 this year), Jackie Cooper (1922, died on May 3, 2011 at the age of 88), Bobby Short (1924, died on March 21, 2005 at the age of 80), Carlo Rambaldi (1925, died on August 10, 2012 at the age of 86), Norm Crosby (1927, died on November 7, 2020 at the age of 93), Henry Silva (1928, turned 97 this year), Dick Latessa (1929, died on December 19, 2016 at the age of 87), Brian Henderson (1931, died on August 5, 2021 at the age of 89), Henry Darrow (1933, died on March 14, 2021 at the age of 87), Tomie dePaola (1934, died on March 30, 2020 at the age of 85), Michael Preece (1936, died on February 27, 2025 at the age of 88), John Reynolds (1941, turned 84 this year), Pik-Sen Lim (1944, turned 81 this year), Ron Shelton (1945, turned 80 this year), Carmen Maura (1945, turned 80 this year), Roy Brocksmith (1945, died on December 16, 2001 at the age of 56), Clive Merrison (1945, turned 80 this year), Eusebio Poncela (1945, died on August 27, 2025 at the age of 79), Tommy Lee Jones (1946, turned 79 this year), Oliver Stone (1946, turned 79 this year), Judith Ridley (1946, turned 79 this year), Wilbur Fitzgerald (1948, turned 77 this year), Keiko Takeshita (1953, turned 72 this year), Barry Shabaka Henley (1954, turned 71 this year), Brad Leland (1954, turned 71 this year), Bruce Reitherman (1955, turned 70 this year), Michael Countryman (1955, turned 70 this year), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957, turned 68 this year), Wendie Jo Sperber (1958, died on November 29, 2005 at the age of 47), Ed Solomon (1960, turned 65 this year), Suzanne Hevner (1960, died on January 4, 2019 at the age of 58), Jack Gwaltney (1960, turned 65 this year), Colin McFarlane (1961, turned 64 this year), Dan Marino (1961, turned 64 this year), Rebecca Miller (1962, turned 63 this year), Matt Roth (1964, turned 61 this year), Steven R. Monroe (1964, turned 61 this year), Bert Kish (1965, died on May 24, 2017 at the age of 51), Wenn V. Deramas (1966, died on February 29, 2016 at the age of 49), Don Wycherley (1967, turned 58 this year), Danny Nucci (1968, turned 57 this year), Susan Dalian (1968, turned 57 this year), Deidre Goodwin (1969, turned 56 this year), Ramya Krishnan (1970, turned 55 this year), Josh Charles (1971, turned 54 this year), Colleen O’Shaughnessey (1971, turned 54 this year), Jimmy Carr (1972, turned 53 this year), John Schwab (1972, turned 53 this year), Jonathan Eusebio (1973, turned 52 this year), Jonathan Liebesman (1976, turned 49 this year), Tom Hardy (1977, turned 48 this year), Caterina Murino (1977, turned 48 this year), Sophie Dahl (1977, turned 48 this year), Dave Annable (1979, turned 46 this year), Amy Davidson (1979, turned 46 this year), Ben Schwartz (1981, turned 44 this year), Josh Janowicz (1981, turned 44 this year), Heidi Montag (1986, turned 39 this year), Jenna Marbles (1986, turned 39 this year), Christian Cooke (1987, turned 38 this year), Ingrid Bisu (1987, turned 38 this year), Kate Mansi (1987, turned 38 this year), Chelsea Kane (1988, turned 37 this year), John Bradley (1988, turned 37 this year), Chloe Dykstra (1988, turned 37 this year), Katelyn Pacitto (1989, turned 36 this year), Matt Shively (1990, turned 35 this year), Camelia Jordana (1992, turned 33 this year), Fady Elsayed (1993, turned 32 this year)

Died on this day in history: John Hoyt (1991, at the age of 85), Sidney Luft (2005, at the age of 89), Frances Bay (2011, at the age of 92), Harry Dean Stanton (2017, at the age of 91), Kirin Kiki (2018, at the age of 75), John M. Dwyer (2018, at the age of 83), Phyllis Newman (2019, at the age of 86), Axel Jodorowsky (2022, at the age of 86), Fernando Botero (2023, at the age of 91), Billy Miller (2023, at the age of 43), Sello Motloung (2024, at the age of 53), Elias Khoury (2024, at the age of 76)

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