On This Day - February 8

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 8.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2014 The Lego Movie Saturday $30,813,599 $257,784,718
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Sunday $16,372,597 $162,994,032
2020 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Saturday $12,193,732 $84,158,461
2013 Identity Thief Friday $11,087,755 $134,506,920
2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Saturday $10,056,761 $105,807,520
2014 The Monuments Men Saturday $9,609,847 $78,031,620
2019 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Friday $8,461,120 $105,806,508
2003 Shanghai Knights Saturday $8,330,676 $60,470,220
2008 Fool’s Gold Friday $7,514,370 $70,231,041
2019 What Men Want Friday $6,590,556 $54,611,903

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 8.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2013 Identity Thief Friday $11,087,755 $134,506,920
2019 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Friday $8,461,120 $105,806,508
2008 Fool’s Gold Friday $7,514,370 $70,231,041
2019 What Men Want Friday $6,590,556 $54,611,903
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins Friday $4,905,285 $42,436,517
2002 Collateral Damage Friday $4,773,000 $40,048,332
2019 Cold Pursuit Friday $3,649,657 $32,138,862
2002 Rollerball Friday $2,920,000 $18,990,542
2013 Side Effects Friday $2,800,011 $32,172,757
2002 Big Fat Liar Friday $2,523,000 $47,811,275

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 8.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2014 The Lego Movie $69,050,279 $257,784,718
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water $55,365,012 $162,994,032
2013 Identity Thief $34,551,025 $134,506,920
2019 The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part $34,115,335 $105,806,508
2020 Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) $33,010,017 $84,158,461
2009 He's Just Not That Into You $27,785,487 $93,953,653
1997 Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope $24,277,091 $460,998,007
2004 Barbershop 2: Back in Business $24,241,612 $65,070,412
2003 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days $23,774,850 $105,807,520
2015 American Sniper $23,289,113 $350,126,372

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Charles Ruggles (1886, died on December 23, 1970 at the age of 84), King Vidor (1894, died on November 1, 1982 at the age of 88), Betty Field (1913, died on September 13, 1973 at the age of 60), Lana Turner (1921, died on June 29, 1995 at the age of 74), Audrey Meadows (1922, died on February 3, 1996 at the age of 73), Jack Lemmon (1925, died on June 27, 2001 at the age of 76), Jack Larson (1928, died on September 20, 2015 at the age of 87), Claude Rich (1929, died on July 20, 2017 at the age of 88), James Dean (1931, died on September 30, 1955 at the age of 24), John Williams (1932, turned 92 this year), Nick Nolte (1941, turned 83 this year), Robert Klein (1942, turned 82 this year), Creed Bratton (1943, turned 81 this year), Richard Durden (1944, turned 80 this year), Niels Arestrup (1949, turned 75 this year), Brooke Adams (1949, turned 75 this year), George Cheung (1949, turned 75 this year), Carolyn Pickles (1952, turned 72 this year), Mary Steenburgen (1953, turned 71 this year), Ethan Phillips (1955, turned 69 this year), John Grisham (1955, turned 69 this year), Kambuzia Partovi (1956, died on November 24, 2020 at the age of 64), Henry Czerny (1959, turned 65 this year), Toby Emmerich (1963, turned 61 this year), Santosh Sivan (1964, turned 60 this year), Larry Clarke (1964, turned 60 this year), Mathilda May (1965, turned 59 this year), Gary Coleman (1968, died on May 28, 2010 at the age of 42), Missy Yager (1968, turned 56 this year), Mary McCormack (1969, turned 55 this year), Stephanie Courtney (1970, turned 54 this year), Enid Graham (1970, turned 54 this year), Susan Misner (1971, turned 53 this year), Paul "Big Show" Wight (1972, turned 52 this year), Brendan Wayne (1972, turned 52 this year), Seth Green (1974, turned 50 this year), Susan May Pratt (1974, turned 50 this year), Pooch Hall (1976, turned 48 this year), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (1976, turned 48 this year), Josh Keaton (1979, turned 45 this year), William Jackson Harper (1980, turned 44 this year), Dawn Olivieri (1981, turned 43 this year), Jim Parrack (1981, turned 43 this year), Liam McIntyre (1982, turned 42 this year), Cecily Strong (1984, turned 40 this year), Anna Hutchison (1986, turned 38 this year), Ryan Pinkston (1988, turned 36 this year), Brittany Bristow (1990, turned 34 this year), Roger Lloyd-Pack (1994, died on January 15, 2014 at the age of 19), Jordan Todosey (1995, turned 29 this year), Kathryn Newton (1997, turned 27 this year)

Died on this day in history: Anna Nicole Smith (2007, at the age of 39), Alan Sharp (2013, at the age of 79), Marie Gruber (2018, at the age of 62), Joachim Tomaschewsky (2019, at the age of 99), Carl Aldana (2019, at the age of 80), Grazia Volpi (2020, at the age of 78), Ron McLarty (2020, at the age of 72), Mary Wilson (2021, at the age of 76), Jean-Claude Carriere (2021, at the age of 89), Lucy Roucis (2021, at the age of 61), Rynagh O'Grady (2021, at the age of 66), Burt Bacharach (2023, at the age of 94)

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