On This Day - September 5
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Sunday | $22,696,386 | $224,543,292 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Sunday | $8,820,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2011 | The Help | Monday | $5,286,948 | $169,705,587 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Saturday | $4,551,785 | $66,477,700 |
| 2010 | The American | Sunday | $4,491,927 | $35,606,376 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Saturday | $4,076,522 | $120,774,594 |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Saturday | $4,003,566 | $33,862,903 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | Monday | $3,874,704 | $89,217,875 |
| 2010 | Machete | Sunday | $3,744,514 | $26,593,646 |
| 2010 | Takers | Sunday | $3,606,969 | $57,744,720 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Bangkok Dangerous | Friday | $2,742,090 | $15,298,133 |
| 2003 | Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | Friday | $2,049,000 | $22,734,486 |
| 1997 | Fire Down Below | Friday | $1,817,651 | $16,148,906 |
| 2003 | The Order | Friday | $1,589,000 | $7,659,747 |
| 2014 | The Identical | Friday | $532,544 | $2,827,666 |
| 2019 | K-12 | Thursday | $303,230 | $303,230 |
| 2008 | Everybody Wants to Be Italian | Friday | $64,238 | $351,416 |
| 2014 | The Remaining | Friday | $50,475 | $1,169,603 |
| 1997 | Julian Po | Friday | $10,081 | $33,148 |
| 1997 | Mouth to Mouth | Friday | $6,552 | $62,411 |
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 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | $75,388,688 | $224,543,292 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $29,271,146 | $293,506,292 |
| 2020 | Tenet | $20,001,852 | $59,473,550 |
| 1993 | The Fugitive | $17,239,413 | $183,968,665 |
| 2010 | The American | $13,177,790 | $35,606,376 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | $12,368,882 | $66,477,700 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | $11,629,393 | $120,774,594 |
| 2010 | Machete | $11,416,164 | $26,593,646 |
| 2009 | All About Steve | $11,241,214 | $33,862,903 |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | $10,920,201 | $176,484,651 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Twinless, The Threesome, Riefenstahl, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Light of the World, The American Southwest, The Baltimorons
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Darryl F. Zanuck (1902, died on December 22, 1979 at the age of 77), Frank Thomas (1912, died on September 8, 2004 at the age of 92), Stuart Freeborn (1914, died on February 5, 2013 at the age of 98), Paul Volcker (1927, died on December 8, 2019 at the age of 92), Bob Newhart (1929, died on July 18, 2024 at the age of 94), Edward S. Feldman (1929, died on October 2, 2020 at the age of 91), Dennis Letts (1934, died on February 22, 2008 at the age of 73), Alejandro Sieveking (1934, died on March 5, 2020 at the age of 85), Dick Clement (1937, turns 88 this year), George Lazenby (1939, turns 86 this year), William Devane (1939, turns 86 this year), Stephen Lawrence (1939, died on December 30, 2021 at the age of 82), Raquel Welch (1940, died on February 15, 2023 at the age of 82), Werner Herzog (1942, turns 83 this year), Jack Charles (1943, died on September 13, 2022 at the age of 79), Dennis Dugan (1946, turns 79 this year), Freddie Mercury (1946, turns 79 this year), Michael Keaton (1951, turns 74 this year), Debbie Turner (1956, turns 69 this year), Graham Yost (1959, turns 66 this year), Denis Forest (1960, died on March 18, 2002 at the age of 41), Peter Wingfield (1962, turns 63 this year), Matthew Barry (1962, turns 63 this year), Terry Ellis (1963, turns 62 this year), Thomas Mikal Ford (1964, died on October 12, 2016 at the age of 52), Sergei Loznitsa (1964, turns 61 this year), Christopher Morris (1965, turns 60 this year), Achero Manas (1966, turns 59 this year), Dweezil Zappa (1969, turns 56 this year), Johnny Vegas (1970, turns 55 this year), Liam Lynch (1970, turns 55 this year), Lucy Decoutere (1970, turns 55 this year), Hye-su Kim (1970, turns 55 this year), Rose McGowan (1973, turns 52 this year), Paddy Considine (1973, turns 52 this year), Carice van Houten (1976, turns 49 this year), Joey Kern (1976, turns 49 this year), Laura Bertram (1978, turns 47 this year), Nan Yu (1978, turns 47 this year), Annabelle Wallis (1984, turns 41 this year), Christine Marzano (1986, turns 39 this year), Korrina Rico (1987, turns 38 this year), Kat Graham (1989, turns 36 this year), Max Mittelman (1990, turns 35 this year), Skandar Keynes (1991, turns 34 this year), Paulina Singer (1991, turns 34 this year), Gage Golightly (1993, turns 32 this year), Caroline Sunshine (1995, turns 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: Gert Fröbe (1988, at the age of 75), Leo Penn (1998, at the age of 77), Cliff Gorman (2002, at the age of 65), Donald Ranvaud (2016, at the age of 62), Hugh O’Brian (2016, at the age of 91), Hansford Rowe (2017, at the age of 93), Christopher Lawford (2018, at the age of 63), Jiri Menzel (2020, at the age of 82), Tony Selby (2021, at the age of 83), Laurent Tirard (2024, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.