On This Day - July 27
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | Friday | $30,758,269 | $183,135,014 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Saturday | $29,867,757 | $543,638,043 |
| 2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | Saturday | $25,644,000 | $213,117,789 |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Friday | $25,061,500 | $180,011,740 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Sunday | $23,661,680 | $534,235,491 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | Friday | $22,803,458 | $220,159,104 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Thursday | $21,238,020 | $636,238,421 |
| 2013 | The Wolverine | Saturday | $18,191,631 | $132,556,852 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Friday | $17,734,545 | $448,139,099 |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood | Saturday | $13,282,692 | $142,502,728 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | Friday | $30,758,269 | $183,135,014 |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Friday | $25,061,500 | $180,011,740 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | Friday | $22,803,458 | $220,159,104 |
| 2012 | Step Up Revolution | Friday | $4,929,590 | $35,074,677 |
| 2012 | The Watch | Friday | $4,487,725 | $34,353,000 |
| 2018 | Teen Titans Go! To The Movies | Friday | $4,239,719 | $29,790,236 |
| 2007 | No Reservations | Friday | $3,997,589 | $43,107,979 |
| 2016 | Nerve | Wednesday | $3,727,584 | $38,583,626 |
| 2007 | I Know Who Killed Me | Friday | $1,327,127 | $7,233,485 |
| 2007 | Who's Your Caddy? | Friday | $952,025 | $5,694,308 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was July 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Lion King | $76,621,553 | $543,638,043 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | $75,166,466 | $534,235,491 |
| 2007 | The Simpsons Movie | $74,036,787 | $183,135,014 |
| 2002 | Austin Powers in Goldmember | $73,071,188 | $213,117,789 |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | $68,532,960 | $180,011,740 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $62,101,451 | $448,139,099 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | $61,236,534 | $220,159,104 |
| 2013 | The Wolverine | $53,113,752 | $132,556,852 |
| 2014 | Lucy | $43,899,340 | $126,573,960 |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood | $41,082,018 | $142,502,728 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Donald Crisp (1882, died on May 25, 1974 at the age of 91), Charles Vidor (1900, died on June 4, 1959 at the age of 58), Keenan Wynn (1916, died on October 14, 1986 at the age of 70), Norman Lear (1922, died on December 5, 2023 at the age of 101), Adolfo Celi (1922, died on February 19, 1986 at the age of 63), Will Jordan (1927, died on September 6, 2018 at the age of 91), Nathan George (1936, turns 88 this year), Don Galloway (1937, died on January 8, 2009 at the age of 71), Danielle De Metz (1938, turns 86 this year), Dean Hargrove (1938, turns 86 this year), James Victor (1939, died on June 20, 2016 at the age of 76), Gary Kurtz (1940, died on September 23, 2018 at the age of 78), John Pleshette (1942, turns 82 this year), Susan Silo (1942, turns 82 this year), Lanny Flaherty (1942, turns 82 this year), Jim Jansen (1945, turns 79 this year), Neal Israel (1945, turns 79 this year), Rade Serbedzija (1946, turns 78 this year), Betty Thomas (1947, turns 77 this year), Ilya Salkind (1947, turns 77 this year), Lenore Kasdorf (1948, turns 76 this year), Maury Chaykin (1949, died on July 27, 2010 at the age of 61), Simon Jones (1950, turns 74 this year), Roxanne Hart (1952, turns 72 this year), Yahoo Serious (1953, turns 71 this year), Roger Guenveur Smith (1955, turns 69 this year), Patricia Bethune (1956, turns 68 this year), Bill Engvall (1957, turns 67 this year), Rebecca Staab (1961, turns 63 this year), John Putch (1961, turns 63 this year), Donnie Yen (1963, turns 61 this year), Jill Messick (1967, died on February 7, 2018 at the age of 50), Sasha Mitchell (1967, turns 57 this year), Rahul Bose (1967, turns 57 this year), Cliff Curtis (1968, turns 56 this year), Julian McMahon (1968, turns 56 this year), Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968, turns 56 this year), Bryan Fuller (1969, turns 55 this year), Paul "Triple H" Levesque (1969, turns 55 this year), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970, turns 54 this year), Maya Rudolph (1972, turns 52 this year), Takashi Shimizu (1972, turns 52 this year), Takako Fuji (1972, turns 52 this year), Brian Hooks (1973, turns 51 this year), Ryan Michelle Bathe (1976, turns 48 this year), Leticia Jimenez (1976, turns 48 this year), Diana Gettinger (1976, turns 48 this year), Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (1977, turns 47 this year), Carmen Chaplin (1977, turns 47 this year), Martha Madison (1977, turns 47 this year), Jeff Fowler (1978, turns 46 this year), Georgina Sutcliffe (1978, turns 46 this year), Ewen Leslie (1980, turns 44 this year), Dan Jones (1981, turns 43 this year), Rebekah Graf (1982, turns 42 this year), Blair Redford (1983, turns 41 this year), Taylor Schilling (1984, turns 40 this year), Kenny Wormald (1984, turns 40 this year), Lindsay Burdge (1984, turns 40 this year), Lou Taylor Pucci (1985, turns 39 this year), Tamla Kari (1988, turns 36 this year), Charlotte Arnold (1989, turns 35 this year), Jete Laurence (2007, turns 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: James Mason (1984, at the age of 75), Bob Hope (2003, at the age of 100), Maury Chaykin (2010, at the age of 61), R.G. Armstrong (2012, at the age of 95), Norman Alden (2012, at the age of 87), Tony Martin (2012, at the age of 98), Geoffrey Hughes (2012, at the age of 68), Michel Lemoine (2013, at the age of 90), Sam Shepard (2017, at the age of 73), Edward Lewis (2019, at the age of 99), Dianne Foster (2019, at the age of 90), Stephen Gaffney (2022, at the age of 34)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.