On This Day - August 9
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 9.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Saturday | $22,162,059 | $191,204,754 |
2002 | xXx | Friday | $17,311,194 | $141,930,000 |
2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Saturday | $16,947,112 | $333,714,112 |
2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Sunday | $14,385,072 | $150,201,498 |
2016 | Suicide Squad | Tuesday | $14,261,461 | $325,100,054 |
2003 | S.W.A.T. | Saturday | $13,042,768 | $116,877,597 |
2013 | Elysium | Friday | $11,088,228 | $93,050,117 |
2008 | The Dark Knight | Saturday | $10,502,243 | $534,235,491 |
2002 | Signs | Friday | $9,335,139 | $227,969,295 |
2019 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Friday | $8,781,643 | $68,947,075 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 9.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | xXx | Friday | $17,311,194 | $141,930,000 |
2013 | Elysium | Friday | $11,088,228 | $93,050,117 |
2019 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Friday | $8,781,643 | $68,947,075 |
2013 | Disney Planes | Friday | $8,158,972 | $90,282,580 |
2019 | Dora and the Lost City of Gold | Friday | $6,463,828 | $60,477,943 |
2006 | World Trade Center | Wednesday | $4,403,386 | $70,278,893 |
2019 | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Friday | $2,971,423 | $26,402,818 |
2002 | Blood Work | Friday | $2,347,141 | $26,199,517 |
2019 | The Kitchen | Friday | $1,776,847 | $12,180,032 |
2023 | Jailer | Wednesday | $961,000 | $4,088,000 |
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 9.
Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|
2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $65,575,105 | $191,204,754 |
2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | $54,713,046 | $150,201,498 |
2002 | xXx | $44,506,103 | $141,930,000 |
2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $42,124,922 | $333,714,112 |
2003 | S.W.A.T. | $37,062,535 | $116,877,597 |
2013 | Elysium | $29,807,393 | $93,050,117 |
2002 | Signs | $29,454,659 | $227,969,295 |
2015 | Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation | $28,502,372 | $195,042,377 |
2013 | We’re the Millers | $26,419,396 | $150,394,119 |
2008 | The Dark Knight | $26,117,030 | $534,235,491 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Borderlands, The Fire Inside, Cuckoo
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: P.L. Travers (1899, died on April 23, 1996 at the age of 96), Paul Kelly (1899, died on November 6, 1956 at the age of 57), Tom Tyler (1903, died on May 3, 1954 at the age of 50), Robert Aldrich (1918, died on December 5, 1983 at the age of 65), John Stephenson (1923, died on May 15, 2015 at the age of 91), Robert Shaw (1927, died on August 28, 1978 at the age of 51), Malcolm Marmorstein (1928, died on November 21, 2020 at the age of 92), Dick Anthony Williams (1934, died on February 16, 2012 at the age of 77), Cynthia Harris (1934, died on October 3, 2021 at the age of 87), Burton Gilliam (1938, turns 86 this year), Sam Elliott (1944, turns 80 this year), Alf Humphreys (1953, died on January 31, 2018 at the age of 64), Adam Nimoy (1956, turns 68 this year), Melanie Griffith (1957, turns 67 this year), Amanda Bearse (1958, turns 66 this year), Whitney Houston (1963, died on February 11, 2012 at the age of 48), Gillian Anderson (1968, turns 56 this year), Eric Bana (1968, turns 56 this year), Joseph McGinty Nichol (1968, turns 56 this year), Thomas Lennon (1970, turns 54 this year), Nikki Ziering (1971, turns 53 this year), Mark Povinelli (1971, turns 53 this year), Liz Vassey (1972, turns 52 this year), Kevin McKidd (1973, turns 51 this year), Kenya Barris (1974, turns 50 this year), Marya Delver (1974, turns 50 this year), Mahesh Babu (1975, turns 49 this year), Rhona Mitra (1976, turns 48 this year), Audrey Tautou (1976, turns 48 this year), Jessica Capshaw (1976, turns 48 this year), Texas Battle (1976, turns 48 this year), Kelly Albanese (1977, turns 47 this year), Steven Schneider (1980, turns 44 this year), Charlie David (1980, turns 44 this year), Kate Siegel (1982, turns 42 this year), Daniel Henshall (1982, turns 42 this year), Ashley Johnson (1983, turns 41 this year), Anna Kendrick (1985, turns 39 this year), Justine Wachsberger (1988, turns 36 this year), Bill Skarsgård (1990, turns 34 this year), Hagen Mills (1990, died on May 19, 2020 at the age of 29), Adelaide Kane (1990, turns 34 this year), Emily Tennant (1990, turns 34 this year), Burkely Duffield (1992, turns 32 this year), Forrest Landis (1994, turns 30 this year), Justice Smith (1995, turns 29 this year), Kim Hyang-gi (2000, turns 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Harry Davenport (1949, at the age of 83), Sharon Tate (1969, at the age of 26), Gregory Hines (2003, at the age of 57), Jacques Deray (2003, at the age of 74), Matthew McGrory (2005, at the age of 32), Bernie Mac (2008, at the age of 50), Al Freeman, Jr. (2012, at the age of 81), Mel Stuart (2012, at the age of 83), Ed Nelson (2014, at the age of 85), Frank Gifford (2015, at the age of 84), Alex Cord (2021, at the age of 88), Raymond Briggs (2022, at the age of 88), Gene LeBell (2022, at the age of 89), Robert Swan (2023, at the age of 78), Robbie Robertson (2023, at the age of 80), Doreen Mantle (2023, at the age of 97)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.