On This Day - October 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 2.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | Saturday | $31,630,397 | $213,550,366 |
2004 | Shark Tale | Saturday | $21,085,643 | $161,412,000 |
2015 | The Martian | Friday | $18,145,681 | $228,433,663 |
2009 | Zombieland | Friday | $9,449,569 | $75,590,286 |
2004 | Ladder 49 | Saturday | $9,365,398 | $74,541,707 |
2010 | The Social Network | Saturday | $8,876,169 | $96,962,694 |
2016 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | Sunday | $7,824,396 | $87,242,834 |
1999 | Double Jeopardy | Saturday | $7,820,000 | $116,735,231 |
2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Friday | $7,497,650 | $169,700,110 |
2021 | The Addams Family 2 | Saturday | $7,073,718 | $56,489,153 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 2.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | The Martian | Friday | $18,145,681 | $228,433,663 |
2009 | Zombieland | Friday | $9,449,569 | $75,590,286 |
1998 | What Dreams May Come | Friday | $4,960,000 | $55,485,043 |
1998 | Antz | Friday | $4,205,000 | $90,757,863 |
2009 | Toy Story 3D Double Feature | Friday | $3,254,094 | $30,702,446 |
1998 | A Night at the Roxbury | Friday | $3,055,000 | $30,331,165 |
2009 | The Invention of Lying | Friday | $2,482,184 | $18,451,251 |
2009 | Whip It | Friday | $1,598,957 | $13,077,184 |
2019 | War | Wednesday | $310,262 | $3,640,355 |
2014 | Bang Bang | Thursday | $170,525 | $2,581,138 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 2.
Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|
2021 | Venom: Let There be Carnage | $90,033,210 | $213,550,366 |
2015 | The Martian | $54,308,575 | $228,433,663 |
2004 | Shark Tale | $47,604,606 | $161,412,000 |
2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
2016 | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | $28,871,140 | $87,242,834 |
2009 | Zombieland | $24,733,155 | $75,590,286 |
2022 | Smile | $22,609,925 | $105,935,048 |
2010 | The Social Network | $22,445,653 | $96,962,694 |
2004 | Ladder 49 | $22,088,204 | $74,541,707 |
2016 | Deepwater Horizon | $20,223,544 | $61,433,527 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: The Batman: Part II
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bud Abbott (1897, died on April 24, 1974 at the age of 76), Charles Drake (1917, died on September 10, 1994 at the age of 76), Herbert Voland (1918, died on April 26, 1981 at the age of 62), George ‘Spanky’ McFarland (1928, died on June 30, 1993 at the age of 64), Robin Hardy (1929, died on July 1, 2016 at the age of 86), Moses Gunn (1929, died on December 16, 1993 at the age of 64), David Gale (1936, turns 88 this year), Sandra Seacat (1936, died on January 18, 2023 at the age of 86), Rex Reed (1938, turns 86 this year), Kevin Cooney (1945, turns 79 this year), Avery Brooks (1948, turns 76 this year), Ian McNeice (1950, turns 74 this year), Angelyne (1950, turns 74 this year), Sting (1951, turns 73 this year), Claudio Fragasso (1951, turns 73 this year), Robin Riker (1952, turns 72 this year), David Bradley (1953, turns 71 this year), Lorraine Bracco (1954, turns 70 this year), Charlie Adler (1956, turns 68 this year), Kym Herrin (1957, turns 67 this year), Jeffrey Weissman (1958, turns 66 this year), Daniel Peacock (1958, turns 66 this year), Terence Winter (1960, turns 64 this year), Jeff Bennett (1962, turns 62 this year), Andrew Polk (1962, turns 62 this year), Gary Green (1964, turns 60 this year), Richard Ashton (1965, turns 59 this year), Kay Kay Menon (1966, turns 58 this year), Lew Temple (1967, turns 57 this year), Lucy Cohu (1968, turns 56 this year), Joey Slotnick (1968, turns 56 this year), Natasha Little (1969, turns 55 this year), Dragomir Mrsic (1969, turns 55 this year), Kristin Carey (1969, turns 55 this year), Maribel Verdu (1970, turns 54 this year), Kelly Ripa (1970, turns 54 this year), Catherine Kellner (1970, turns 54 this year), Tiffany (1971, turns 53 this year), Efren Ramirez (1973, turns 51 this year), Danny Smith (1973, turns 51 this year), Andrey Danilko (1973, turns 51 this year), Michelle Krusiec (1974, turns 50 this year), Brianna Brown (1979, turns 45 this year), Goran Bogdan (1980, turns 44 this year), Michele Nordin (1980, turns 44 this year), Erik Fellows (1981, turns 43 this year), J.J. Nolan (1985, turns 39 this year), Camilla Belle (1986, turns 38 this year), Filip Berg (1986, turns 38 this year), Dia Frampton (1987, turns 37 this year), Marta Gastini (1989, turns 35 this year), Samantha Barks (1990, turns 34 this year), Maria Evoli (1990, turns 34 this year), Castille Landon (1991, turns 33 this year), Tara Lynne Barr (1993, turns 31 this year), Elizabeth McLaughlin (1993, turns 31 this year), Brendan Meyer (1994, turns 30 this year), Hana Sugisaki (1997, turns 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: George Bancroft (1956, at the age of 74), Rock Hudson (1985, at the age of 59), Lee Richardson (1999, at the age of 73), Hamilton Camp (2005, at the age of 70), Frances Bergen (2006, at the age of 84), George Grizzard (2007, at the age of 79), Tom Petty (2017, at the age of 66), Paul LeBlanc (2019, at the age of 72), Edward S. Feldman (2020, at the age of 91), Sacheen Littlefeather (2022, at the age of 75), Douglas Kirkland (2022, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.