On This Day - February 8
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Saturday | $30,813,599 | $257,784,718 |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | Sunday | $16,372,597 | $162,994,032 |
| 2020 | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Saturday | $12,193,732 | $84,158,461 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Friday | $11,087,755 | $134,506,920 |
| 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | Saturday | $10,056,761 | $105,807,520 |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men | Saturday | $9,609,847 | $78,031,620 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | Friday | $8,461,120 | $105,806,508 |
| 2003 | Shanghai Knights | Saturday | $8,330,676 | $60,470,220 |
| 2008 | Fool’s Gold | Friday | $7,514,370 | $70,231,041 |
| 2019 | What Men Want | Friday | $6,590,556 | $54,611,903 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Identity Thief | Friday | $11,087,755 | $134,506,920 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | Friday | $8,461,120 | $105,806,508 |
| 2008 | Fool’s Gold | Friday | $7,514,370 | $70,231,041 |
| 2019 | What Men Want | Friday | $6,590,556 | $54,611,903 |
| 2008 | Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | Friday | $4,905,285 | $42,436,517 |
| 2002 | Collateral Damage | Friday | $4,773,000 | $40,048,332 |
| 2019 | Cold Pursuit | Friday | $3,649,657 | $32,138,862 |
| 2002 | Rollerball | Friday | $2,920,000 | $18,990,542 |
| 2013 | Side Effects | Friday | $2,800,011 | $32,172,757 |
| 2002 | Big Fat Liar | Friday | $2,523,000 | $47,811,275 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 8.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | $69,050,279 | $257,784,718 |
| 2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | $55,365,012 | $162,994,032 |
| 2013 | Identity Thief | $34,551,025 | $134,506,920 |
| 2019 | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part | $34,115,335 | $105,806,508 |
| 2020 | Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | $33,010,017 | $84,158,461 |
| 2009 | He's Just Not That Into You | $27,785,487 | $93,953,653 |
| 1997 | Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope | $24,277,091 | $460,998,007 |
| 2004 | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | $24,241,612 | $65,070,412 |
| 2003 | How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days | $23,774,850 | $105,807,520 |
| 2015 | American Sniper | $23,289,113 | $350,126,372 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charles Ruggles (1886, died on December 23, 1970 at the age of 84), King Vidor (1894, died on November 1, 1982 at the age of 88), Betty Field (1913, died on September 13, 1973 at the age of 60), Lana Turner (1921, died on June 29, 1995 at the age of 74), Audrey Meadows (1922, died on February 3, 1996 at the age of 73), Jack Lemmon (1925, died on June 27, 2001 at the age of 76), Jack Larson (1928, died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 87), Claude Rich (1929, died on July 20, 2017 at the age of 88), James Dean (1931, died on September 30, 1955 at the age of 24), John Williams (1932, turned 92 this year), Nick Nolte (1941, turned 83 this year), Robert Klein (1942, turned 82 this year), Creed Bratton (1943, turned 81 this year), Richard Durden (1944, turned 80 this year), Niels Arestrup (1949, turned 75 this year), Brooke Adams (1949, turned 75 this year), George Cheung (1949, turned 75 this year), Carolyn Pickles (1952, turned 72 this year), Mary Steenburgen (1953, turned 71 this year), Ethan Phillips (1955, turned 69 this year), John Grisham (1955, turned 69 this year), Kambuzia Partovi (1956, died on November 24, 2020 at the age of 64), Henry Czerny (1959, turned 65 this year), Toby Emmerich (1963, turned 61 this year), Santosh Sivan (1964, turned 60 this year), Larry Clarke (1964, turned 60 this year), Mathilda May (1965, turned 59 this year), Gary Coleman (1968, died on May 28, 2010 at the age of 42), Missy Yager (1968, turned 56 this year), Mary McCormack (1969, turned 55 this year), Stephanie Courtney (1970, turned 54 this year), Enid Graham (1970, turned 54 this year), Susan Misner (1971, turned 53 this year), Paul "Big Show" Wight (1972, turned 52 this year), Brendan Wayne (1972, turned 52 this year), Seth Green (1974, turned 50 this year), Susan May Pratt (1974, turned 50 this year), Pooch Hall (1976, turned 48 this year), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (1976, turned 48 this year), Josh Keaton (1979, turned 45 this year), William Jackson Harper (1980, turned 44 this year), Dawn Olivieri (1981, turned 43 this year), Jim Parrack (1981, turned 43 this year), Liam McIntyre (1982, turned 42 this year), Cecily Strong (1984, turned 40 this year), Anna Hutchison (1986, turned 38 this year), Ryan Pinkston (1988, turned 36 this year), Brittany Bristow (1990, turned 34 this year), Roger Lloyd-Pack (1994, died on January 15, 2014 at the age of 19), Jordan Todosey (1995, turned 29 this year), Kathryn Newton (1997, turned 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Anna Nicole Smith (2007, at the age of 39), Alan Sharp (2013, at the age of 79), Marie Gruber (2018, at the age of 62), Joachim Tomaschewsky (2019, at the age of 99), Carl Aldana (2019, at the age of 80), Grazia Volpi (2020, at the age of 78), Ron McLarty (2020, at the age of 72), Mary Wilson (2021, at the age of 76), Jean-Claude Carriere (2021, at the age of 89), Lucy Roucis (2021, at the age of 61), Rynagh O'Grady (2021, at the age of 66), Burt Bacharach (2023, at the age of 94)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.