On This Day - March 1
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 1.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Friday | $32,211,366 | $277,239,255 |
| 2014 | Non-Stop | Saturday | $12,406,350 | $91,742,160 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Saturday | $10,265,817 | $257,784,718 |
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Monday | $10,132,000 | $370,782,930 |
| 2014 | Son of God | Saturday | $9,346,491 | $59,700,064 |
| 2019 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral | Friday | $9,200,824 | $73,257,045 |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Friday | $7,693,563 | $65,187,603 |
| 2020 | The Invisible Man | Sunday | $7,030,015 | $64,914,050 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Thursday | $6,607,691 | $700,059,566 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Friday | $6,431,160 | $160,799,505 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 1.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Friday | $32,211,366 | $277,239,255 |
| 2019 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral | Friday | $9,200,824 | $73,257,045 |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Friday | $7,693,563 | $65,187,603 |
| 2002 | We Were Soldiers | Friday | $5,545,000 | $78,120,196 |
| 2002 | 40 Days and 40 Nights | Friday | $4,402,000 | $37,939,782 |
| 2013 | 21 and Over | Friday | $3,349,433 | $25,682,380 |
| 2013 | The Last Exorcism Part II | Friday | $3,249,542 | $15,179,303 |
| 2019 | Greta | Friday | $1,603,595 | $10,544,310 |
| 2000 | 3 Strikes | Wednesday | $501,211 | $9,821,335 |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Friday | $401,905 | $9,040,224 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 1.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | $82,505,391 | $277,239,255 |
| 2019 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | $30,028,540 | $160,799,505 |
| 2014 | Non-Stop | $28,875,635 | $91,742,160 |
| 2020 | The Invisible Man | $28,205,665 | $64,914,050 |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | $27,202,226 | $65,187,603 |
| 2019 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral | $27,062,332 | $73,257,045 |
| 2014 | Son of God | $25,601,865 | $59,700,064 |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | $20,828,356 | $257,784,718 |
| 2002 | We Were Soldiers | $20,212,543 | $78,120,196 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $19,633,056 | $674,460,013 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Lionel Atwill (1885, died on April 22, 1946 at the age of 61), David Niven (1910, died on July 29, 1983 at the age of 73), Jack Clayton (1921, died on February 26, 1995 at the age of 73), Robert Clary (1926, died on November 16, 2022 at the age of 96), Claude Gensac (1927, died on December 27, 2016 at the age of 89), Harry Belafonte (1927, died on April 25, 2023 at the age of 96), Jacques Rivette (1928, died on January 29, 2016 at the age of 87), Joan Hackett (1934, died on October 8, 1983 at the age of 49), Roger Daltrey (1944, turned 80 this year), Dirk Benedict (1945, turned 79 this year), Lana Wood (1946, turned 78 this year), Alan Thicke (1947, died on December 13, 2016 at the age of 69), Peter Brant (1947, turned 77 this year), Karl Johnson (1948, turned 76 this year), Chuck Zito (1953, turned 71 this year), Ron Howard (1954, turned 70 this year), Catherine Bach (1954, turned 70 this year), Peter Spellos (1954, died on November 19, 2023 at the age of 69), Tim Daly (1956, turned 68 this year), Russel Wong (1963, turned 61 this year), Bryan Batt (1963, turned 61 this year), Maurice Benard (1963, turned 61 this year), Sean Gilder (1964, turned 60 this year), Chris Eigeman (1965, turned 59 this year), Zack Snyder (1966, turned 58 this year), George Eads (1967, turned 57 this year), Javier Bardem (1969, turned 55 this year), Cara Buono (1971, turned 53 this year), Ma Dong-seok (1971, turned 53 this year), Jack Davenport (1973, turned 51 this year), Chris Webber (1973, turned 51 this year), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (1974, turned 50 this year), Luke Mably (1976, turned 48 this year), Emily Holmes (1977, turned 47 this year), Jensen Ackles (1978, turned 46 this year), Donovan Patton (1978, turned 46 this year), Alicia Leigh Willis (1978, turned 46 this year), Liya Kebede (1978, turned 46 this year), Adam Lavorgna (1981, turned 43 this year), Zach Cregger (1981, turned 43 this year), Anna Bruggemann (1981, turned 43 this year), Dominic Rains (1982, turned 42 this year), Kim Min-hee (1982, turned 42 this year), Lupita Nyong'o (1983, turned 41 this year), Daniella Monet (1989, turned 35 this year), Justin Bieber (1994, turned 30 this year), Millicent Simmonds (2003, turned 21 this year), Izabella Alvarez (2004, turned 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Gregory La Cava (1952, at the age of 59), Jackie Coogan (1984, at the age of 69), Alain Resnais (2014, at the age of 91), Michael Gudinski (2021, at the age of 68), Conrad Janis (2022, at the age of 94), Iris Apfel (2024, at the age of 102), Lynn Fainchtein (2024, at the age of 102)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.