On This Day - September 28

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 28.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Saturday $15,078,511 $119,793,567
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Saturday $14,707,798 $127,214,072
2024 The Wild Robot Saturday $14,405,440 $144,564,905
2012 Hotel Transylvania Friday $10,973,012 $148,313,048
2018 Night School Friday $9,520,825 $77,339,130
2019 Abominable Saturday $8,995,905 $60,761,390
2014 The Equalizer Sunday $8,150,391 $101,530,738
2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Saturday $7,467,509 $294,100,435
2008 Eagle Eye Sunday $6,971,596 $101,440,743
2012 Looper Friday $6,804,981 $66,486,205

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 28.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania Friday $10,973,012 $148,313,048
2018 Night School Friday $9,520,825 $77,339,130
2012 Looper Friday $6,804,981 $66,486,205
2018 Smallfoot Friday $6,433,241 $83,240,103
2007 The Game Plan Friday $6,336,390 $90,648,202
2007 The Kingdom Friday $5,963,055 $47,467,250
2001 Don’t Say a Word Friday $5,763,000 $54,997,476
2001 Zoolander Friday $4,856,000 $45,172,250
2001 Hearts in Atlantis Friday $2,811,000 $24,185,781
2018 Hell Fest Friday $2,040,141 $11,107,431

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 28.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania $42,522,194 $148,313,048
2024 The Wild Robot $35,790,150 $144,564,905
2002 Sweet Home Alabama $35,648,740 $127,214,072
2014 The Equalizer $34,137,828 $101,530,738
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $34,017,930 $119,793,567
2008 Eagle Eye $29,150,721 $101,440,743
2018 Night School $27,257,615 $77,339,130
2018 Smallfoot $23,045,635 $83,240,103
2007 The Game Plan $22,950,971 $90,648,202
2025 One Battle After Another $22,000,387 $71,575,278

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Ed Sullivan (1901, died on October 13, 1974 at the age of 73), Peter Finch (1916, died on January 14, 1977 at the age of 60), Joe Silver (1922, died on February 27, 1989 at the age of 66), Marcello Mastroianni (1924, died on December 19, 1996 at the age of 72), Brigitte Bardot (1934, died on December 28, 2025 at the age of 91), Janet Munro (1934, died on December 6, 1972 at the age of 38), Ronald Lacey (1935, died on May 15, 1991 at the age of 55), Joel Fabiani (1936, turns 90 this year), Sandra Dorsey (1939, died on September 26, 2023 at the age of 83), Pierre Clementi (1942, died on December 27, 1999 at the age of 57), Marshall Bell (1942, turns 84 this year), J.T. Walsh (1943, died on February 27, 1998 at the age of 54), Matthew Cowles (1944, turns 82 this year), Manuel Porto (1945, died on September 28, 2021 at the age of 76), Jeffrey Jones (1946, turns 80 this year), Peter Egan (1946, turns 80 this year), Fiona Lewis (1946, turns 80 this year), Herbert Jr. Jefferson (1946, turns 80 this year), Michael Flynn (1947, turns 79 this year), Eloy Casados (1949, died on April 19, 2016 at the age of 66), John Sayles (1950, turns 76 this year), Sylvia Kristel (1952, died on October 17, 2012 at the age of 60), Jerry Stahl (1953, turns 73 this year), Kiran Shah (1956, turns 70 this year), Peter Gantzler (1958, turns 68 this year), Steve Hytner (1959, turns 67 this year), Gregory Jbara (1961, turns 65 this year), Sam Miller (1962, turns 64 this year), Susan Walters (1963, turns 63 this year), Janeane Garofalo (1964, turns 62 this year), Laura Ceron (1964, turns 62 this year), Brendan Kelly (1964, turns 62 this year), Christopher Evan Welch (1965, turns 61 this year), Joe Torry (1965, turns 61 this year), Roschdy Zem (1965, turns 61 this year), Puri Jagannadh (1966, turns 60 this year), Maria Canals-Barrera (1966, turns 60 this year), Michelle Schumacher (1966, turns 60 this year), Leilani Sarelle (1966, turns 60 this year), Bellina Logan (1966, turns 60 this year), Mira Sorvino (1967, turns 59 this year), Michael Oosterom (1967, turns 59 this year), Naomi Watts (1968, turns 58 this year), Jo Wyatt (1970, turns 56 this year), Matt Day (1971, turns 55 this year), Dita Von Teese (1972, turns 54 this year), Chris Hebert (1973, turns 53 this year), Peter Cambor (1978, turns 48 this year), Rikke Lylloff (1978, turns 48 this year), Erin Carufel (1978, turns 48 this year), Bam Margera (1979, turns 47 this year), Anndi McAfee (1979, turns 47 this year), Jerrika Hinton (1981, turns 45 this year), Melissa Claire Egan (1981, turns 45 this year), Daniel Bonjour (1981, turns 45 this year), Megumi Kagurazaka (1981, turns 45 this year), Ranbir Kapoor (1982, turns 44 this year), Matt Cohen (1982, turns 44 this year), Sarah Wright (1983, turns 43 this year), Sabina Gadecki (1983, turns 43 this year), Sarah Scott (1983, turns 43 this year), Tanisha Long (1984, turns 42 this year), Hilary Duff (1987, turns 39 this year), Hana Mae Lee (1988, turns 38 this year), Olivia Jordan (1988, turns 38 this year), Skye McCole Bartusiak (1992, turns 34 this year), Keir Gilchrist (1992, turns 34 this year), Jenna Craig (1999, turns 27 this year), Frankie Jonas (2000, turns 26 this year)

Died on this day in history: Norma Crane (1973, at the age of 44), Robert Helpmann (1986, at the age of 77), Elia Kazan (2003, at the age of 94), Helen Horton (2007, at the age of 83), Arthur Penn (2010, at the age of 88), Catherine E. Coulson (2015, at the age of 71), Marietta Marich (2017, at the age of 87), Benjamin Whitrow (2017, at the age of 80), Gene Corman (2020, at the age of 93), Manuel Porto (2021, at the age of 76), Tommy Kirk (2021, at the age of 79), Coolio (2022, at the age of 59), Bruno Arena (2022, at the age of 65), Michael Gambon (2023, at the age of 82), Kris Kristofferson (2024, at the age of 88)

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