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.