On This Day - August 13
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Saturday | $17,530,577 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | Friday | $16,700,000 | $80,281,096 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Friday | $13,330,881 | $103,068,524 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Saturday | $11,397,989 | $97,670,358 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Saturday | $10,927,862 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Sunday | $10,637,908 | $636,238,421 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Friday | $10,445,933 | $121,626,598 |
| 2011 | The Help | Saturday | $9,996,887 | $169,705,587 |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Friday | $8,456,809 | $80,574,010 |
| 2016 | Pete’s Dragon | Saturday | $8,389,791 | $76,233,151 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | Friday | $16,700,000 | $80,281,096 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Friday | $13,330,881 | $103,068,524 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Friday | $10,445,933 | $121,626,598 |
| 2010 | Eat Pray Love | Friday | $8,456,809 | $80,574,010 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Wednesday | $6,503,141 | $110,515,313 |
| 1999 | Bowfinger | Friday | $5,830,000 | $66,458,769 |
| 2014 | Let’s Be Cops | Wednesday | $5,205,858 | $82,390,774 |
| 2010 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | Friday | $4,522,890 | $32,951,310 |
| 2021 | Don’t Breathe 2 | Friday | $4,393,857 | $32,638,038 |
| 2004 | Yu-Gi-Oh | Friday | $4,350,000 | $19,762,690 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 13.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $43,536,013 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $38,291,056 | $80,281,096 |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation | $35,006,404 | $102,092,201 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | $34,825,135 | $103,068,524 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | $34,263,534 | $97,670,358 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $33,833,294 | $636,238,421 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | $28,365,416 | $121,626,598 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $27,832,307 | $176,760,185 |
| 2011 | The Help | $26,044,590 | $169,705,587 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $25,764,991 | $293,506,292 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bert Lahr (1895, died on December 4, 1967 at the age of 72), Regis Toomey (1898, died on October 12, 1991 at the age of 93), Alfred Hitchcock (1899, died on April 29, 1980 at the age of 80), John Beal (1909, turns 115 this year), Kurt Kasznar (1913, died on August 6, 1979 at the age of 65), Rita Johnson (1913, died on October 31, 1965 at the age of 52), Buck Kartalian (1922, died on May 24, 2016 at the age of 93), Madhur Jaffrey (1933, turns 91 this year), Lillian Hurst (1943, turns 81 this year), Kevin Tighe (1944, turns 80 this year), Gretchen Corbett (1945, turns 79 this year), Peter Iacangelo (1948, turns 76 this year), Jane Carr (1950, turns 74 this year), Brandon Smith (1952, died on October 27, 2023 at the age of 71), Paul Greengrass (1955, turns 69 this year), Richard Hawley (1955, turns 69 this year), David Crane (1957, turns 67 this year), Kathleen Gati (1957, turns 67 this year), Hank Cheyne (1958, turns 66 this year), Dawnn Lewis (1961, turns 63 this year), John Slattery (1962, turns 62 this year), Sridevi (1963, died on February 24, 2018 at the age of 54), Debi Mazar (1964, turns 60 this year), Deborah Falconer (1965, turns 59 this year), Jacinto Taras Riddick (1965, turns 59 this year), Quinn Cummings (1967, turns 57 this year), Heike Makatsch (1971, turns 53 this year), Moritz Bleibtreu (1971, turns 53 this year), David Monahan (1971, turns 53 this year), Rolando Molina (1971, turns 53 this year), Vladimir Vdovichenkov (1971, turns 53 this year), Crystal Allen (1972, turns 52 this year), Michael Sinterniklaas (1972, turns 52 this year), James Carpinello (1975, turns 49 this year), Grégory Fitoussi (1976, turns 48 this year), Jody Thompson (1976, turns 48 this year), Lee Quigley (1976, turns 48 this year), Damian O'Hare (1977, turns 47 this year), Euan Morton (1977, turns 47 this year), Kathryn Fiore (1979, turns 45 this year), Kasia Smutniak (1979, turns 45 this year), Alex Gonzalez (1980, turns 44 this year), Sebastian Stan (1982, turns 42 this year), Tatiana Pauhofova (1983, turns 41 this year), Jasmine Burke (1983, turns 41 this year), Mapuana Makia (1983, turns 41 this year), Ashley Spillers (1986, turns 38 this year), Wesley Taylor (1986, turns 38 this year), Catherine Combs (1990, turns 34 this year), Freya Mavor (1993, turns 31 this year), Connor Kalopsis (2003, turns 21 this year)
Died on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1946, at the age of 79), Jane Darwell (1967, at the age of 87), Helen Mack (1986, at the age of 72), Tony Jay (2006, at the age of 73), Joyce Gordon (2008, at the age of 73), Kenny Baker (2016, at the age of 81), Joseph Bologna (2017, at the age of 82), John Carter (2018, at the age of 95), Ash Christian (2020, at the age of 35), Clarence Avant (2023, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.