On This Day - March 16
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | Saturday | $29,418,618 | $426,829,839 |
| 2002 | Ice Age | Saturday | $19,068,000 | $176,387,405 |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | Saturday | $18,221,991 | $234,770,996 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Friday | $13,239,489 | $138,447,667 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | Sunday | $12,901,768 | $154,529,439 |
| 2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | Saturday | $12,784,805 | $193,590,620 |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Saturday | $11,778,737 | $282,709,065 |
| 2007 | 300 | Friday | $10,072,330 | $210,614,939 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Friday | $8,984,365 | $58,250,803 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Friday | $7,482,380 | $700,059,566 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Friday | $13,239,489 | $138,447,667 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | Friday | $8,984,365 | $58,250,803 |
| 2001 | Exit Wounds | Friday | $6,386,000 | $51,758,599 |
| 2007 | Premonition | Friday | $6,341,302 | $47,852,604 |
| 2018 | I Can Only Imagine | Friday | $6,237,850 | $83,482,352 |
| 2001 | Enemy at the Gates | Friday | $4,810,000 | $51,396,781 |
| 2018 | Love, Simon | Friday | $4,613,108 | $40,826,341 |
| 2007 | Dead Silence | Friday | $2,878,975 | $16,574,590 |
| 2016 | Miracles from Heaven | Wednesday | $1,887,811 | $61,705,123 |
| 2007 | I Think I Love My Wife | Friday | $1,746,309 | $12,559,771 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 16.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Captain Marvel | $67,988,130 | $426,829,839 |
| 2002 | Ice Age | $46,312,454 | $176,387,405 |
| 2008 | Horton Hears a Who | $45,012,998 | $154,529,439 |
| 2013 | Oz the Great and Powerful | $41,252,702 | $234,770,996 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | $36,302,612 | $138,447,667 |
| 2007 | 300 | $32,877,328 | $210,614,939 |
| 2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | $30,149,970 | $193,590,620 |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | $28,505,206 | $282,709,065 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | $26,650,690 | $700,059,566 |
| 2018 | Tomb Raider | $23,633,317 | $58,250,803 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Friedrich Feher (1889, died on September 30, 1950 at the age of 61), Isobel Elsom (1893, turned 132 this year), Conrad Nagel (1897, died on February 24, 1970 at the age of 72), Henny Youngman (1906, died on February 24, 1998 at the age of 91), Robert Rossen (1908, died on February 18, 1966 at the age of 57), Pat Nixon (1912, died on June 22, 1993 at the age of 81), Mercedes McCambridge (1916, died on March 2, 2004 at the age of 87), Leo McKern (1920, died on July 23, 2002 at the age of 82), Jerry Lewis (1926, died on August 20, 2017 at the age of 91), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941, died on November 26, 2018 at the age of 77), Jerry Jeff Walker (1942, died on October 23, 2020 at the age of 78), Susan Nimoy (1943, turned 82 this year), Victor Garber (1949, turned 76 this year), Erik Estrada (1949, turned 76 this year), Michael MacRae (1949, turned 76 this year), Kate Nelligan (1950, turned 75 this year), Steven Grives (1951, turned 74 this year), Irwin Keyes (1952, died on July 8, 2015 at the age of 63), Alvin Sanders (1952, turned 73 this year), Isabelle Huppert (1953, turned 72 this year), Nancy Wilson (1954, turned 71 this year), Jimmy Nail (1954, turned 71 this year), Bruno Barreto (1955, turned 70 this year), Clifton Powell (1956, turned 69 this year), Flavor Flav (1959, turned 66 this year), Gary Basaraba (1959, turned 66 this year), Todd McFarlane (1961, turned 64 this year), Jerome Flynn (1963, turned 62 this year), Kevin Smith (1963, died on February 15, 2002 at the age of 38), Gore Verbinski (1964, turned 61 this year), Jamie Tarses (1964, died on February 1, 2021 at the age of 56), Belen Rueda (1965, turned 60 this year), Lauren Graham (1967, turned 58 this year), Judah Friedlander (1969, turned 56 this year), Alan Tudyk (1971, turned 54 this year), Rupert Sanders (1971, turned 54 this year), Nicolas Bro (1972, turned 53 this year), Tim Kang (1973, turned 52 this year), Anne Charrier (1974, turned 51 this year), Sienna Guillory (1975, turned 50 this year), Tara Buck (1975, turned 50 this year), Paul Schneider (1976, turned 49 this year), Joe Egender (1976, turned 49 this year), Kyle Newman (1976, turned 49 this year), Brooke Burns (1978, turned 47 this year), Felisha Terrell (1979, turned 46 this year), Marcela Mar (1979, turned 46 this year), Alexandra Daddario (1986, turned 39 this year), Jung So-min (1989, turned 36 this year), Madison Riley (1990, turned 35 this year), Sierra McClain (1994, turned 31 this year), Isabelle Allen (2002, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Bebe Daniels (1971, at the age of 70), Frank Sinatra, Jr. (2016, at the age of 72), Stuart Whitman (2020, at the age of 92), David Seidler (2024, at the age of 86), Emilie Dequenne (2025, at the age of 43)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.