On This Day - September 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | Saturday | $9,564,725 | $96,853,865 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Saturday | $8,995,489 | $61,002,302 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | Sunday | $7,782,073 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | Saturday | $7,703,689 | $211,593,228 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | Saturday | $7,372,043 | $50,188,370 |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Saturday | $7,014,908 | $104,963,598 |
| 2019 | Rambo: Last Blood | Saturday | $6,966,288 | $44,819,352 |
| 2013 | Insidious Chapter 2 | Saturday | $6,454,569 | $83,586,447 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | Friday | $9,614,163 | $50,648,679 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | Friday | $7,792,860 | $68,549,695 |
| 2007 | Good Luck Chuck | Friday | $5,137,326 | $35,017,297 |
| 2012 | House at the End of the Street | Friday | $4,621,259 | $31,611,916 |
| 2012 | End of Watch | Friday | $4,603,191 | $41,003,371 |
| 2012 | Trouble with the Curve | Friday | $4,171,545 | $35,763,137 |
| 2012 | Dredd | Friday | $2,219,943 | $13,414,714 |
| 2007 | Sydney White | Friday | $1,766,905 | $11,892,415 |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 11/9 | Friday | $1,063,442 | $6,352,306 |
| 2018 | Life Itself | Friday | $747,398 | $4,095,431 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 21.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | $32,512,804 | $102,427,862 |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey | $31,033,665 | $96,853,865 |
| 2018 | The House with a Clock in its Walls | $26,608,020 | $68,549,695 |
| 2007 | Resident Evil: Extinction | $23,678,580 | $50,648,679 |
| 2003 | Underworld | $21,753,759 | $51,970,690 |
| 2013 | Prisoners | $20,817,053 | $61,002,302 |
| 2019 | Ad Astra | $19,001,398 | $50,188,370 |
| 1996 | The First Wives Club | $18,913,411 | $105,489,203 |
| 2019 | Rambo: Last Blood | $18,872,919 | $44,819,352 |
| 2019 | It: Chapter Two | $17,006,478 | $211,593,228 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: H.G. Wells (1866, died on August 13, 1946 at the age of 79), Chuck Jones (1912, died on February 22, 2002 at the age of 89), Nigel Stock (1919, turns 105 this year), Elsa Raven (1929, died on November 3, 2020 at the age of 91), John Morgan (1930, died on November 15, 2004 at the age of 74), Larry Hagman (1931, died on November 23, 2012 at the age of 81), Leonard Cohen (1934, died on November 7, 2016 at the age of 82), Henry Gibson (1935, died on September 14, 2009 at the age of 73), Tracy Reed (1941, turns 83 this year), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943, turns 81 this year), Fannie Flagg (1944, turns 80 this year), Caleb Deschanel (1944, turns 80 this year), Stephen King (1947, turns 77 this year), Nick Castle (1947, turns 77 this year), Yusaku Matsuda (1949, died on November 6, 1989 at the age of 40), Bill Murray (1950, turns 74 this year), Michael Hirst (1952, turns 72 this year), Sunny Johnson (1953, turns 71 this year), Mika Kaurismaki (1955, turns 69 this year), François Cluzet (1955, turns 69 this year), Mercedes Moran (1955, turns 69 this year), Marta Kauffman (1956, turns 68 this year), Ethan Coen (1957, turns 67 this year), Dave Coulier (1959, turns 65 this year), David James Elliott (1960, turns 64 this year), Mary Mara (1960, turns 64 this year), James Colby (1961, died on February 23, 2018 at the age of 56), Nancy Travis (1961, turns 63 this year), Serena Scott Thomas (1961, turns 63 this year), Rob Morrow (1962, turns 62 this year), Michael Potts (1962, turns 62 this year), Angus MacFadyen (1963, turns 61 this year), Cheryl Hines (1965, turns 59 this year), David Wenham (1965, turns 59 this year), Faith Hill (1967, turns 57 this year), Brooke Stacy Mills (1967, turns 57 this year), Ricki Lake (1968, turns 56 this year), Billy Porter (1969, turns 55 this year), Adam Lazarre-White (1969, turns 55 this year), Rob Benedict (1970, turns 54 this year), James Lesure (1970, turns 54 this year), Luke Wilson (1971, turns 53 this year), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971, turns 53 this year), Liam Gallagher (1972, turns 52 this year), Troy Bishop (1972, turns 52 this year), Taral Hicks (1974, turns 50 this year), Diego Martin (1974, turns 50 this year), Dominic Pace (1975, turns 49 this year), Jessica St. Clair (1976, turns 48 this year), Shelley Conn (1976, turns 48 this year), Eric Michael Cole (1976, turns 48 this year), Ben Bailey Smith (1977, turns 47 this year), Anthony Hayes (1977, turns 47 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turns 46 this year), Paulo Costanzo (1978, turns 46 this year), Kareena Kapoor (1980, turns 44 this year), Aleksa Palladino (1980, turns 44 this year), Robert Hoffman (1980, turns 44 this year), Nicole Richie (1981, turns 43 this year), Rudy Youngblood (1982, turns 42 this year), Elise Schaap (1982, turns 42 this year), Joseph Mazzello (1983, turns 41 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turns 41 this year), Scott Evans (1983, turns 41 this year), Maggie Grace (1983, turns 41 this year), Atlee Kumar (1983, turns 41 this year), Ahna O'Reilly (1984, turns 40 this year), Stevie Nelson (1985, turns 39 this year), Carolina Bang (1985, turns 39 this year), Ryan Guzman (1987, turns 37 this year), Brytni Sarpy (1987, turns 37 this year), Jason Derulo (1989, turns 35 this year), Christian Serratos (1990, turns 34 this year), Allison Scagliotti (1990, turns 34 this year), Hadas Yaron (1990, turns 34 this year), Fumi Nikaido (1994, turns 30 this year), Kristine Froseth (1995, turns 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Harry Carey (1947, at the age of 69), Walter Brennan (1974, at the age of 80), Autumn Reeser (1980, at the age of 80), Nigel Patrick (1981, at the age of 69), Henry Koster (1988, at the age of 83), Bill Williams (1992, at the age of 77), Alice Ghostley (2007, at the age of 84), Robert Ginty (2009, at the age of 60), George Odom (2016, at the age of 66), Sid Haig (2019, at the age of 80), Boris Teterev (2019, at the age of 65), Christopher Rouse (2019, at the age of 70), Michael Lonsdale (2020, at the age of 89), Michael Chapman (2020, at the age of 84), Tommy DeVito (2020, at the age of 92), Willie Garson (2021, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.