On This Day - September 29
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 29.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Saturday | $18,947,063 | $148,313,048 |
| 2018 | Night School | Saturday | $11,268,050 | $77,339,130 |
| 2007 | The Game Plan | Saturday | $10,361,769 | $90,648,202 |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | Sunday | $10,187,635 | $143,901,945 |
| 2018 | Smallfoot | Saturday | $9,875,229 | $83,240,103 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Sunday | $9,693,422 | $119,793,567 |
| 2012 | Looper | Saturday | $8,726,716 | $66,486,205 |
| 2023 | Saw X | Friday | $7,965,110 | $53,607,898 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Sunday | $7,823,005 | $127,214,072 |
| 2001 | Don’t Say a Word | Saturday | $7,450,000 | $54,997,476 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 29.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Saw X | Friday | $7,965,110 | $53,607,898 |
| 2000 | Remember the Titans | Friday | $6,891,000 | $115,719,751 |
| 2023 | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Friday | $6,828,084 | $65,343,309 |
| 2006 | Open Season | Friday | $6,212,884 | $85,105,259 |
| 2017 | American Made | Friday | $6,168,025 | $51,342,000 |
| 2023 | The Creator | Friday | $5,629,996 | $40,774,679 |
| 2006 | The Guardian | Friday | $5,600,000 | $55,011,732 |
| 2006 | School for Scoundrels | Friday | $2,894,108 | $17,807,569 |
| 2017 | Flatliners | Friday | $2,128,957 | $16,883,115 |
| 2017 | Til Death Do Us Part | Friday | $492,644 | $3,424,454 |
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 29.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | $42,522,194 | $148,313,048 |
| 2024 | The Wild Robot | $35,790,150 | $143,901,945 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | $35,648,740 | $127,214,072 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | $34,017,930 | $119,793,567 |
| 2018 | Night School | $27,257,615 | $77,339,130 |
| 2006 | Open Season | $23,624,548 | $85,105,259 |
| 2018 | Smallfoot | $23,045,635 | $83,240,103 |
| 2007 | The Game Plan | $22,950,971 | $90,648,202 |
| 2023 | PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie | $22,764,354 | $65,343,309 |
| 2000 | Remember the Titans | $20,905,831 | $115,719,751 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Greer Garson (1904, died on April 6, 1996 at the age of 91), Ted de Corsia (1905, died on April 11, 1973 at the age of 67), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912, died on July 30, 2007 at the age of 94), Stanley Kramer (1913, died on February 19, 2001 at the age of 87), Trevor Howard (1913, died on January 7, 1988 at the age of 74), Brenda Marshall (1915, died on July 30, 1992 at the age of 76), Peter Arne (1920, died on August 1, 1983 at the age of 62), Lizabeth Scott (1922, died on January 31, 2015 at the age of 92), Steve Forrest (1925, died on May 18, 2013 at the age of 87), Pete McCloskey (1927, died on May 8, 2024 at the age of 96), Anita Ekberg (1931, died on January 11, 2015 at the age of 83), Eddie Barth (1931, turned 94 this year), Robert Benton (1932, died on May 11, 2025 at the age of 92), Alan Hopgood (1934, died on March 19, 2022 at the age of 87), Mylene Demongeot (1935, turned 90 this year), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935, died on October 28, 2022 at the age of 87), James Frawley (1936, died on January 22, 2019 at the age of 82), Ian McShane (1942, turned 83 this year), Madeline Kahn (1942, died on December 3, 1999 at the age of 57), Donna Corcoran (1942, turned 83 this year), Toni Myers (1943, died on February 18, 2019 at the age of 75), Isla Blair (1944, turned 81 this year), Mike Post (1944, turned 81 this year), Reggie Bannister (1945, turned 80 this year), Martin Ferrero (1947, turned 78 this year), Donovan Scott (1947, turned 78 this year), Bryant Gumbel (1948, turned 77 this year), C.J. Jones (1950, turned 75 this year), Gabor Csupo (1952, turned 73 this year), Miguel Angel Fuentes (1953, turned 72 this year), Mark Mitchell (1954, turned 71 this year), Cindy Morgan (1954, turned 71 this year), Stuart Charno (1956, turned 69 this year), Yuriy Moroz (1956, died on July 14, 2025 at the age of 68), Andrew Dice Clay (1957, turned 68 this year), Karen Young (1958, turned 67 this year), Raymond Thiry (1959, turned 66 this year), Dale Dickey (1961, turned 64 this year), Roger Bart (1962, turned 63 this year), Francis Jue (1963, turned 62 this year), Rune Temte (1965, turned 60 this year), Ben Miles (1966, turned 59 this year), Luke Goss (1968, turned 57 this year), Mindy Burbano (1968, turned 57 this year), Samir Soni (1968, turned 57 this year), Matt Goss (1968, turned 57 this year), Erika Eleniak (1969, turned 56 this year), Natasha Gregson Wagner (1970, turned 55 this year), Russell Peters (1970, turned 55 this year), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970, turned 55 this year), Emily Lloyd (1970, turned 55 this year), Mackenzie Crook (1971, turned 54 this year), Theodore Shapiro (1971, turned 54 this year), Robert Webb (1972, turned 53 this year), Brad Kane (1973, turned 52 this year), Matt Hullum (1974, turned 51 this year), Alexis Cruz (1974, turned 51 this year), Anna Khaja (1974, turned 51 this year), Henriette Steenstrup (1974, turned 51 this year), James Lance (1975, turned 50 this year), Steve Yedlin (1975, turned 50 this year), Jason Hehir (1976, turned 49 this year), Sasha Rionda (1977, turned 48 this year), Nathan West (1978, turned 47 this year), Michael Ford-Fitzgerald (1979, turned 46 this year), Zachary Levi (1980, turned 45 this year), Chrissy Metz (1980, turned 45 this year), Julie R. Ølgaard (1981, turned 44 this year), Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (1982, died on December 13, 2022 at the age of 40), David Del Rio (1987, turned 38 this year), Helene Reingaard Neumann (1987, turned 38 this year), Halsey (1994, turned 31 this year), Marco Ilsø (1994, turned 31 this year), Sasha Lane (1995, turned 30 this year), Anna Jacoby-Heron (1995, turned 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: Edward Everett Horton (1970, at the age of 84), Gordon Douglas (1993, at the age of 85), Gloria Foster (2001, at the age of 67), Lois Maxwell (2007, at the age of 80), Tony Curtis (2010, at the age of 85), Tom Alter (2017, at the age of 67), Helen Reddy (2020, at the age of 78), Mac Davis (2020, at the age of 78), Jorgen Leth (2025, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.