On This Day - April 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Sunday | $18,369,560 | $364,001,123 |
| 2009 | Obsessed | Friday | $11,209,297 | $68,261,644 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Saturday | $9,424,420 | $77,906,816 |
| 2004 | 13 Going On 30 | Saturday | $8,721,574 | $57,139,723 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | Saturday | $8,675,000 | $42,326,031 |
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Saturday | $6,775,807 | $217,581,232 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | Sunday | $6,616,800 | $97,459,240 |
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | Saturday | $6,445,970 | $49,888,502 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Sunday | $5,778,015 | $72,708,161 |
| 2011 | Rio | Sunday | $5,756,975 | $143,619,809 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Obsessed | Friday | $11,209,297 | $68,261,644 |
| 2015 | The Age of Adaline | Friday | $4,962,070 | $42,629,776 |
| 2009 | Fighting | Friday | $4,536,995 | $23,091,010 |
| 1998 | The Big Hit | Friday | $3,860,000 | $27,066,941 |
| 2009 | The Soloist | Friday | $3,204,135 | $31,853,584 |
| 2015 | Little Boy | Friday | $1,355,876 | $6,485,961 |
| 2015 | The Water Diviner | Friday | $375,376 | $4,200,117 |
| 1998 | Tarzan and the Lost City | Friday | $300,000 | $2,147,114 |
| 1998 | Two Girls and a Guy | Friday | $195,000 | $2,057,193 |
| 2015 | Brotherly Love | Friday | $78,198 | $478,595 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was April 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $61,538,821 | $364,001,123 |
| 2009 | Obsessed | $28,612,730 | $68,261,644 |
| 2011 | Rio | $26,323,321 | $143,619,809 |
| 2011 | Madea’s Big Happy Family | $25,068,677 | $53,345,287 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | $23,950,245 | $97,459,240 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $23,302,503 | $42,326,031 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | $22,822,455 | $72,708,161 |
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | $22,789,600 | $49,888,502 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | $22,751,490 | $77,906,816 |
| 2004 | 13 Going On 30 | $21,054,238 | $57,139,723 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Marceline Day (1908, died on February 16, 2000 at the age of 91), William Castle (1914, died on May 31, 1977 at the age of 63), Shammi (1929, died on March 6, 2018 at the age of 88), Richard Donner (1930, died on July 5, 2021 at the age of 91), Patricia Bosworth (1933, died on April 2, 2020 at the age of 86), Shirley MacLaine (1934, turned 90 this year), Jill Ireland (1936, turned 88 this year), Michael Parks (1940, died on May 9, 2017 at the age of 77), Barbra Streisand (1942, turned 82 this year), Peter Friedman (1949, turned 75 this year), Ralph Winter (1952, turned 72 this year), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952, turned 72 this year), Eric Bogosian (1953, turned 71 this year), Michael O'Keefe (1955, turned 69 this year), Glenn Morshower (1959, turned 65 this year), Cedric the Entertainer (1964, turned 60 this year), Djimon Hounsou (1964, turned 60 this year), Aidan Gillen (1968, turned 56 this year), Rory McCann (1969, turned 55 this year), Stefania Rocca (1971, turned 53 this year), Damon Lindelof (1973, turned 51 this year), Dean Armstrong (1973, turned 51 this year), Eric Kripke (1974, turned 50 this year), Derek Luke (1974, turned 50 this year), Noah Danby (1974, turned 50 this year), Thad Luckinbill (1975, turned 49 this year), Shane McDermott (1976, turned 48 this year), Eric Balfour (1977, turned 47 this year), Rebecca Mader (1977, turned 47 this year), Austin Nichols (1980, turned 44 this year), Reagan Gomez-Preston (1980, turned 44 this year), Sasha Barrese (1981, turned 43 this year), Jasmine Trinca (1981, turned 43 this year), Kelly Clarkson (1982, turned 42 this year), Lindsey Gort (1984, turned 40 this year), Tyson Ritter (1984, turned 40 this year), Varun Dhawan (1987, turned 37 this year), Jason Maza (1987, turned 37 this year), Kim Tae-ri (1990, turned 34 this year), Joe Keery (1992, turned 32 this year), Jack Quaid (1992, turned 32 this year), Doc Shaw (1992, turned 32 this year), Jordan Fisher (1994, turned 30 this year), Ryan Whitney (1998, turned 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Frank Overton (1967, at the age of 49), Bud Abbott (1974, at the age of 76), Pat Conway (1981, at the age of 50), Donald Cammell (1996, at the age of 62), Pat Paulsen (1997, at the age of 69), Don Gordon (2017, at the age of 90), Jean-Pierre Marielle (2019, at the age of 87), Conrado San Martín (2019, at the age of 98), Michael Koskoff (2019, at the age of 77), Bob Fass (2021, at the age of 87), Ray Chan (2024, at the age of 87)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.