On This Day - September 21

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 21.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Saturday $11,838,608 $294,100,435
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction Friday $9,614,163 $50,648,679
2019 Downton Abbey Saturday $9,564,725 $96,853,865
2024 Transformers One Saturday $9,151,714 $59,098,421
2013 Prisoners Saturday $8,995,489 $61,002,302
2018 The House with a Clock in its Walls Friday $7,792,860 $68,549,695
2014 The Maze Runner Sunday $7,782,073 $102,427,862
2019 It: Chapter Two Saturday $7,703,689 $211,593,228
2019 Ad Astra Saturday $7,372,043 $50,188,370
2019 Hustlers Saturday $7,014,908 $104,963,598

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 21.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction Friday $9,614,163 $50,648,679
2018 The House with a Clock in its Walls Friday $7,792,860 $68,549,695
2007 Good Luck Chuck Friday $5,137,326 $35,017,297
2012 House at the End of the Street Friday $4,621,259 $31,611,916
2012 End of Watch Friday $4,603,191 $41,003,371
2012 Trouble with the Curve Friday $4,171,545 $35,763,137
2012 Dredd Friday $2,219,943 $13,414,714
2007 Sydney White Friday $1,766,905 $11,892,415
2018 Fahrenheit 11/9 Friday $1,063,442 $6,352,306
2018 Life Itself Friday $747,398 $4,095,431

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 21.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2014 The Maze Runner $32,512,804 $102,427,862
2019 Downton Abbey $31,033,665 $96,853,865
2018 The House with a Clock in its Walls $26,608,020 $68,549,695
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $25,937,144 $294,100,435
2024 Transformers One $24,613,970 $59,098,421
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction $23,678,580 $50,648,679
2003 Underworld $21,753,759 $51,970,690
2013 Prisoners $20,817,053 $61,002,302
2019 Ad Astra $19,001,398 $50,188,370
1996 The First Wives Club $18,913,411 $105,489,203

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1866, died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79), Chuck Jones (1912, died on February 22, 2002 at the age of 89), Nigel Stock (1919, turns 107 this year), Elsa Raven (1929, died on November 3, 2020 at the age of 91), Héctor Alterio (1929, died on December 13, 2025 at the age of 96), John Morgan (1930, died on November 15, 2004 at the age of 74), Larry Hagman (1931, died on November 23, 2012 at the age of 81), Leonard Cohen (1934, died on November 7, 2016 at the age of 82), Henry Gibson (1935, died on September 14, 2009 at the age of 73), Tracy Reed (1941, turns 85 this year), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943, turns 83 this year), Fannie Flagg (1944, turns 82 this year), Caleb Deschanel (1944, turns 82 this year), Stephen King (1947, turns 79 this year), Nick Castle (1947, turns 79 this year), Yusaku Matsuda (1949, died on November 6, 1989 at the age of 40), Bill Murray (1950, turns 76 this year), Michael Hirst (1952, turns 74 this year), Sunny Johnson (1953, turns 73 this year), Mika Kaurismaki (1955, turns 71 this year), François Cluzet (1955, turns 71 this year), Mercedes Moran (1955, turns 71 this year), Marta Kauffman (1956, turns 70 this year), Ethan Coen (1957, turns 69 this year), Dave Coulier (1959, turns 67 this year), David James Elliott (1960, turns 66 this year), Mary Mara (1960, turns 66 this year), James Colby (1961, died on February 23, 2018 at the age of 56), Nancy Travis (1961, turns 65 this year), Serena Scott Thomas (1961, turns 65 this year), Rob Morrow (1962, turns 64 this year), Michael Potts (1962, turns 64 this year), Angus MacFadyen (1963, turns 63 this year), Cheryl Hines (1965, turns 61 this year), David Wenham (1965, turns 61 this year), Faith Hill (1967, turns 59 this year), Brooke Stacy Mills (1967, turns 59 this year), Ricki Lake (1968, turns 58 this year), Billy Porter (1969, turns 57 this year), Adam Lazarre-White (1969, turns 57 this year), Rob Benedict (1970, turns 56 this year), James Lesure (1970, turns 56 this year), Luke Wilson (1971, turns 55 this year), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971, turns 55 this year), Liam Gallagher (1972, turns 54 this year), Troy Bishop (1972, turns 54 this year), Taral Hicks (1974, turns 52 this year), Diego Martin (1974, turns 52 this year), Dominic Pace (1975, turns 51 this year), Jessica St. Clair (1976, turns 50 this year), Shelley Conn (1976, turns 50 this year), Eric Michael Cole (1976, turns 50 this year), Ben Bailey Smith (1977, turns 49 this year), Anthony Hayes (1977, turns 49 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turns 48 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turns 48 this year), Kareena Kapoor (1980, turns 46 this year), Autumn Reeser (1980, turns 46 this year), Aleksa Palladino (1980, turns 46 this year), Robert Hoffman (1980, turns 46 this year), Nicole Richie (1981, turns 45 this year), Rudy Youngblood (1982, turns 44 this year), Elise Schaap (1982, turns 44 this year), Joseph Mazzello (1983, turns 43 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turns 43 this year), Scott Evans (1983, turns 43 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turns 43 this year), Atlee Kumar (1983, turns 43 this year), Ahna O'Reilly (1984, turns 42 this year), Stevie Nelson (1985, turns 41 this year), Carolina Bang (1985, turns 41 this year), Ryan Guzman (1987, turns 39 this year), Brytni Sarpy (1987, turns 39 this year), Jason Derulo (1989, turns 37 this year), Christian Serratos (1990, turns 36 this year), Allison Scagliotti (1990, turns 36 this year), Hadas Yaron (1990, turns 36 this year), Fumi Nikaido (1994, turns 32 this year), Kristine Froseth (1995, turns 31 this year)

Died on this day in history: Harry Carey (1947, at the age of 69), Walter Brennan (1974, at the age of 80), Nigel Patrick (1981, at the age of 69), Henry Koster (1988, at the age of 83), Bill Williams (1992, at the age of 77), Alice Ghostley (2007, at the age of 84), Robert Ginty (2009, at the age of 60), George Odom (2016, at the age of 66), Sid Haig (2019, at the age of 80), Boris Teterev (2019, at the age of 65), Christopher Rouse (2019, at the age of 70), Michael Lonsdale (2020, at the age of 89), Michael Chapman (2020, at the age of 84), Tommy DeVito (2020, at the age of 92), Willie Garson (2021, at the age of 57)

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