On This Day - September 27

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 27.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sunday $14,387,467 $169,700,110
2014 The Equalizer Saturday $13,491,996 $101,530,738
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Friday $13,117,937 $127,214,072
2008 Eagle Eye Saturday $12,378,941 $101,440,743
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Friday $9,245,997 $119,793,567
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Sunday $8,242,798 $124,870,275
2014 The Maze Runner Saturday $7,967,538 $102,427,862
2003 The Rundown Saturday $7,675,120 $47,641,743
2014 The Boxtrolls Saturday $7,459,080 $50,837,305
1998 Rush Hour Sunday $5,787,000 $141,186,864

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 27.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Friday $13,117,937 $127,214,072
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Friday $9,245,997 $119,793,567
2019 Abominable Friday $5,654,440 $60,761,390
2002 The Tuxedo Friday $4,595,676 $50,586,000
2013 Baggage Claim Friday $3,297,613 $21,569,509
2013 Don Jon Friday $3,288,247 $24,477,704
2019 Judy Friday $900,327 $24,319,961
2013 Metallica Through the Never Friday $811,449 $3,419,967
2002 Moonlight Mile Friday $100,371 $6,830,957
1997 The Ice Storm Saturday $41,045 $8,038,061

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 27.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 $48,464,322 $169,700,110
2002 Sweet Home Alabama $35,648,740 $127,214,072
2014 The Equalizer $34,137,828 $101,530,738
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $34,017,930 $119,793,567
2008 Eagle Eye $29,150,721 $101,440,743
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $25,038,803 $124,870,275
1998 Rush Hour $21,202,929 $141,186,864
2019 Abominable $20,612,100 $60,761,390
2003 The Rundown $18,533,765 $47,641,743
2015 The Intern $17,728,313 $75,764,672

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Untitled Saw XI

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Jim Thompson (1906, died on April 7, 1977 at the age of 70), Bernard Miles (1907, died on June 14, 1991 at the age of 83), Margery Mason (1913, died on January 26, 2014 at the age of 100), Jayne Meadows (1919, died on April 26, 2015 at the age of 95), William Conrad (1920, died on February 11, 1994 at the age of 73), Arthur Penn (1922, died on September 28, 2010 at the age of 88), Tony Giorgio (1923, died on February 1, 2012 at the age of 88), Yash Chopra (1932, died on October 21, 2012 at the age of 80), Greg Morris (1933, died on August 27, 1996 at the age of 62), Will Sampson (1933, died on June 3, 1987 at the age of 53), Kathleen Nolan (1933, turns 91 this year), Wilford Brimley (1934, died on August 1, 2020 at the age of 85), Jose Maria Sacristan (1937, turns 87 this year), Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938, died on May 24, 2020 at the age of 81), Garrick Hagon (1939, turns 85 this year), Roger Van Hool (1940, died on August 28, 2023 at the age of 82), Bob Spiers (1945, died on December 8, 2008 at the age of 63), Meat Loaf (1947, died on January 20, 2022 at the age of 74), Denis Lawson (1947, turns 77 this year), Liz Torres (1947, turns 77 this year), Tom Braidwood (1948, turns 76 this year), A. Martinez (1948, turns 76 this year), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950, turns 74 this year), Ren Osugi (1951, died on February 21, 2018 at the age of 66), Shaun Cassidy (1958, turns 66 this year), Irvine Welsh (1958, turns 66 this year), Jean-Marc Barr (1960, turns 64 this year), Christopher Cousins (1960, turns 64 this year), Debi Derryberry (1960, turns 64 this year), Andy Lau (1961, turns 63 this year), David McNally (1961, turns 63 this year), Marc Maron (1963, turns 61 this year), Scott Lawrence (1963, turns 61 this year), Sofia Milos (1965, turns 59 this year), Maria Schrader (1965, turns 59 this year), Patrick Muldoon (1968, turns 56 this year), Tod Williams (1968, turns 56 this year), Anthony Rhulen (1969, died on January 15, 2021 at the age of 51), Tamara Taylor (1970, turns 54 this year), Amanda Detmer (1971, turns 53 this year), Agata Kulesza (1971, turns 53 this year), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972, turns 52 this year), Indira Varma (1973, turns 51 this year), Carrie Brownstein (1974, turns 50 this year), Brandy Burre (1974, turns 50 this year), Travis Aaron Wade (1975, turns 49 this year), Jim Klock (1975, turns 49 this year), Jeff Pope (1976, turns 48 this year), Michael C. Maronna (1977, turns 47 this year), Zita Gorog (1979, turns 45 this year), Kristopher Turner (1980, turns 44 this year), Anna Camp (1982, turns 42 this year), Lil' Wayne (1982, turns 42 this year), Ella Scott Lynch (1982, turns 42 this year), Zero Kazama (1982, turns 42 this year), Jose Maria De Tavira (1983, turns 41 this year), Avril Lavigne (1984, turns 40 this year), Grace Helbig (1985, turns 39 this year), Arielle Vandenberg (1986, turns 38 this year), Lola Kirke (1990, turns 34 this year), Andrew Hunter (1990, turns 34 this year), Thomas Mann (1991, turns 33 this year), Sam Lerner (1992, turns 32 this year), Daeg Faerch (1995, turns 29 this year), Jenna Ortega (2002, turns 22 this year)

Died on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1977, at the age of 70), Robert Montgomery (1981, at the age of 77), Lloyd Nolan (1985, at the age of 83), Donald O’Connor (2003, at the age of 78), Herbert Lom (2012, at the age of 95), Phyllis Davis (2013, at the age of 73), Jay Robinson (2013, at the age of 83), Sarah Danielle Madison (2014, at the age of 40), John Guillermin (2015, at the age of 89), Hugh Hefner (2017, at the age of 91), Joseph Wilson (2019, at the age of 69), Linda Porter (2019, at the age of 86), Rob Garrison (2019, at the age of 59), Catherine Lachens (2023, at the age of 78)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.