On This Day - July 27

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 27.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine Saturday $61,644,783 $627,950,324
2007 The Simpsons Movie Friday $30,758,269 $183,135,014
2019 The Lion King Saturday $29,867,757 $543,638,043
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember Saturday $25,644,000 $213,117,789
2001 Planet of the Apes Friday $25,061,500 $180,011,740
2008 The Dark Knight Sunday $23,661,680 $534,235,491
2018 Mission: Impossible—Fallout Friday $22,803,458 $220,159,104
2023 Barbie Thursday $21,238,020 $636,238,421
2013 The Wolverine Saturday $18,191,631 $132,556,852
2012 The Dark Knight Rises Friday $17,734,545 $448,139,099

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 27.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2007 The Simpsons Movie Friday $30,758,269 $183,135,014
2001 Planet of the Apes Friday $25,061,500 $180,011,740
2018 Mission: Impossible—Fallout Friday $22,803,458 $220,159,104
2012 Step Up Revolution Friday $4,929,590 $35,074,677
2012 The Watch Friday $4,487,725 $34,353,000
2018 Teen Titans Go! To The Movies Friday $4,239,719 $29,790,236
2007 No Reservations Friday $3,997,589 $43,107,979
2016 Nerve Wednesday $3,727,584 $38,583,626
2007 I Know Who Killed Me Friday $1,327,127 $7,233,485
2007 Who's Your Caddy? Friday $952,025 $5,694,308

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was July 27.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2024 Deadpool & Wolverine $211,435,291 $627,950,324
2019 The Lion King $76,621,553 $543,638,043
2008 The Dark Knight $75,166,466 $534,235,491
2007 The Simpsons Movie $74,036,787 $183,135,014
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember $73,071,188 $213,117,789
2001 Planet of the Apes $68,532,960 $180,011,740
2012 The Dark Knight Rises $62,101,451 $448,139,099
2018 Mission: Impossible—Fallout $61,236,534 $220,159,104
2013 The Wolverine $53,113,752 $132,556,852
2014 Lucy $43,899,340 $126,573,960

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Donald Crisp (1882, died on May 25, 1974 at the age of 91), Charles Vidor (1900, died on June 4, 1959 at the age of 58), Keenan Wynn (1916, died on October 14, 1986 at the age of 70), Norman Lear (1922, died on December 5, 2023 at the age of 101), Adolfo Celi (1922, died on February 19, 1986 at the age of 63), Will Jordan (1927, died on September 6, 2018 at the age of 91), Nathan George (1936, turned 88 this year), Don Galloway (1937, died on January 8, 2009 at the age of 71), Danielle De Metz (1938, turned 86 this year), Dean Hargrove (1938, turned 86 this year), James Victor (1939, died on June 20, 2016 at the age of 76), Gary Kurtz (1940, died on September 23, 2018 at the age of 78), John Pleshette (1942, turned 82 this year), Susan Silo (1942, turned 82 this year), Lanny Flaherty (1942, turned 82 this year), Jim Jansen (1945, turned 79 this year), Neal Israel (1945, turned 79 this year), Rade Serbedzija (1946, turned 78 this year), Betty Thomas (1947, turned 77 this year), Ilya Salkind (1947, turned 77 this year), Lenore Kasdorf (1948, turned 76 this year), Maury Chaykin (1949, died on July 27, 2010 at the age of 61), Simon Jones (1950, turned 74 this year), Roxanne Hart (1952, turned 72 this year), Yahoo Serious (1953, turned 71 this year), Roger Guenveur Smith (1955, turned 69 this year), Patricia Bethune (1956, turned 68 this year), Bill Engvall (1957, turned 67 this year), Rebecca Staab (1961, turned 63 this year), John Putch (1961, turned 63 this year), Donnie Yen (1963, turned 61 this year), Jill Messick (1967, died on February 7, 2018 at the age of 50), Sasha Mitchell (1967, turned 57 this year), Rahul Bose (1967, turned 57 this year), Cliff Curtis (1968, turned 56 this year), Julian McMahon (1968, turned 56 this year), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968, turned 56 this year), Bryan Fuller (1969, turned 55 this year), Paul "Triple H" Levesque (1969, turned 55 this year), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970, turned 54 this year), Maya Rudolph (1972, turned 52 this year), Takashi Shimizu (1972, turned 52 this year), Takako Fuji (1972, turned 52 this year), Brian Hooks (1973, turned 51 this year), Ryan Michelle Bathe (1976, turned 48 this year), Leticia Jimenez (1976, turned 48 this year), Diana Gettinger (1976, turned 48 this year), Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (1977, turned 47 this year), Carmen Chaplin (1977, turned 47 this year), Martha Madison (1977, turned 47 this year), Jeff Fowler (1978, turned 46 this year), Georgina Sutcliffe (1978, turned 46 this year), Ewen Leslie (1980, turned 44 this year), Dan Jones (1981, turned 43 this year), Rebekah Graf (1982, turned 42 this year), Blair Redford (1983, turned 41 this year), Taylor Schilling (1984, turned 40 this year), Kenny Wormald (1984, turned 40 this year), Lindsay Burdge (1984, turned 40 this year), Lou Taylor Pucci (1985, turned 39 this year), Tamla Kari (1988, turned 36 this year), Charlotte Arnold (1989, turned 35 this year), Jete Laurence (2007, turned 17 this year)

Died on this day in history: James Mason (1984, at the age of 75), Bob Hope (2003, at the age of 100), Maury Chaykin (2010, at the age of 61), R.G. Armstrong (2012, at the age of 95), Norman Alden (2012, at the age of 87), Tony Martin (2012, at the age of 98), Geoffrey Hughes (2012, at the age of 68), Michel Lemoine (2013, at the age of 90), Sam Shepard (2017, at the age of 73), Edward Lewis (2019, at the age of 99), Dianne Foster (2019, at the age of 90), Stephen Gaffney (2022, at the age of 34)

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