On This Day - September 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Saturday | $11,838,608 | $232,622,857 |
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | Saturday | $9,564,725 | $96,853,865 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | Saturday | $9,151,714 | $29,013,006 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Saturday | $8,995,489 | $61,002,302 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | Sunday | $7,782,073 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | Saturday | $7,703,689 | $211,593,228 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | Saturday | $7,372,043 | $50,188,370 |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Saturday | $7,014,908 | $104,963,598 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2007 | Good Luck Chuck | Friday | $5,137,326 | $35,017,297 |
| 2012 | House at the End of the Street | Friday | $4,621,259 | $31,611,916 |
| 2012 | End of Watch | Friday | $4,603,191 | $41,003,371 |
| 2012 | Trouble with the Curve | Friday | $4,171,545 | $35,763,137 |
| 2012 | Dredd | Friday | $2,219,943 | $13,414,714 |
| 2007 | Sydney White | Friday | $1,766,905 | $11,892,415 |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 11/9 | Friday | $1,063,442 | $6,352,306 |
| 2018 | Life Itself | Friday | $747,398 | $4,095,431 |
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 21.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | $32,512,804 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | $31,033,665 | $96,853,865 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | $26,608,020 | $68,549,695 |
| 2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | $25,937,144 | $232,622,857 |
| 2024 | Transformers One | $24,613,970 | $29,013,006 |
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | $23,678,580 | $50,648,679 |
| 2003 | Underworld | $21,753,759 | $51,970,690 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | $20,817,053 | $61,002,302 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | $19,001,398 | $50,188,370 |
| 1996 | The First Wives Club | $18,913,411 | $105,489,203 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1866, died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79), Chuck Jones (1912, died on February 22, 2002 at the age of 89), Nigel Stock (1919, turned 105 this year), Elsa Raven (1929, died on November 3, 2020 at the age of 91), John Morgan (1930, died on November 15, 2004 at the age of 74), Larry Hagman (1931, died on November 23, 2012 at the age of 81), Leonard Cohen (1934, died on November 7, 2016 at the age of 82), Henry Gibson (1935, died on September 14, 2009 at the age of 73), Tracy Reed (1941, turned 83 this year), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943, turned 81 this year), Fannie Flagg (1944, turned 80 this year), Caleb Deschanel (1944, turned 80 this year), Stephen King (1947, turned 77 this year), Nick Castle (1947, turned 77 this year), Yusaku Matsuda (1949, died on November 6, 1989 at the age of 40), Bill Murray (1950, turned 74 this year), Michael Hirst (1952, turned 72 this year), Sunny Johnson (1953, turned 71 this year), Mika Kaurismaki (1955, turned 69 this year), François Cluzet (1955, turned 69 this year), Mercedes Moran (1955, turned 69 this year), Marta Kauffman (1956, turned 68 this year), Ethan Coen (1957, turned 67 this year), Dave Coulier (1959, turned 65 this year), David James Elliott (1960, turned 64 this year), Mary Mara (1960, turned 64 this year), James Colby (1961, died on February 23, 2018 at the age of 56), Nancy Travis (1961, turned 63 this year), Serena Scott Thomas (1961, turned 63 this year), Rob Morrow (1962, turned 62 this year), Michael Potts (1962, turned 62 this year), Angus MacFadyen (1963, turned 61 this year), Cheryl Hines (1965, turned 59 this year), David Wenham (1965, turned 59 this year), Faith Hill (1967, turned 57 this year), Brooke Stacy Mills (1967, turned 57 this year), Ricki Lake (1968, turned 56 this year), Billy Porter (1969, turned 55 this year), Adam Lazarre-White (1969, turned 55 this year), Rob Benedict (1970, turned 54 this year), James Lesure (1970, turned 54 this year), Luke Wilson (1971, turned 53 this year), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971, turned 53 this year), Liam Gallagher (1972, turned 52 this year), Troy Bishop (1972, turned 52 this year), Taral Hicks (1974, turned 50 this year), Diego Martin (1974, turned 50 this year), Dominic Pace (1975, turned 49 this year), Jessica St. Clair (1976, turned 48 this year), Shelley Conn (1976, turned 48 this year), Eric Michael Cole (1976, turned 48 this year), Ben Bailey Smith (1977, turned 47 this year), Anthony Hayes (1977, turned 47 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turned 46 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turned 46 this year), Kareena Kapoor (1980, turned 44 this year), Aleksa Palladino (1980, turned 44 this year), Robert Hoffman (1980, turned 44 this year), Nicole Richie (1981, turned 43 this year), Rudy Youngblood (1982, turned 42 this year), Elise Schaap (1982, turned 42 this year), Joseph Mazzello (1983, turned 41 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turned 41 this year), Scott Evans (1983, turned 41 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turned 41 this year), Atlee Kumar (1983, turned 41 this year), Ahna O'Reilly (1984, turned 40 this year), Stevie Nelson (1985, turned 39 this year), Carolina Bang (1985, turned 39 this year), Ryan Guzman (1987, turned 37 this year), Brytni Sarpy (1987, turned 37 this year), Jason Derulo (1989, turned 35 this year), Christian Serratos (1990, turned 34 this year), Allison Scagliotti (1990, turned 34 this year), Hadas Yaron (1990, turned 34 this year), Fumi Nikaido (1994, turned 30 this year), Kristine Froseth (1995, turned 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Harry Carey (1947, at the age of 69), Walter Brennan (1974, at the age of 80), Autumn Reeser (1980, at the age of 80), Nigel Patrick (1981, at the age of 69), Henry Koster (1988, at the age of 83), Bill Williams (1992, at the age of 77), Alice Ghostley (2007, at the age of 84), Robert Ginty (2009, at the age of 60), George Odom (2016, at the age of 66), Sid Haig (2019, at the age of 80), Boris Teterev (2019, at the age of 65), Christopher Rouse (2019, at the age of 70), Michael Lonsdale (2020, at the age of 89), Michael Chapman (2020, at the age of 84), Tommy DeVito (2020, at the age of 92), Willie Garson (2021, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.