On This Day - September 29

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 29.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania Saturday $18,947,063 $148,313,048
2018 Night School Saturday $11,268,050 $77,339,130
2007 The Game Plan Saturday $10,361,769 $90,648,202
2018 Smallfoot Saturday $9,875,229 $83,240,103
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sunday $9,693,422 $119,793,567
2012 Looper Saturday $8,726,716 $66,486,205
2023 Saw X Friday $7,965,110 $53,607,898
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Sunday $7,823,005 $127,214,072
2001 Don’t Say a Word Saturday $7,450,000 $54,997,476
2007 The Kingdom Saturday $6,926,640 $47,467,250

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 29.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2023 Saw X Friday $7,965,110 $53,607,898
2000 Remember the Titans Friday $6,891,000 $115,719,751
2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie Friday $6,828,084 $65,343,309
2006 Open Season Friday $6,212,884 $85,105,259
2017 American Made Friday $6,168,025 $51,342,000
2023 The Creator Friday $5,629,996 $40,774,679
2006 The Guardian Friday $5,600,000 $55,011,732
2006 School for Scoundrels Friday $2,894,108 $17,807,569
2017 Flatliners Friday $2,128,957 $16,883,115
2017 Til Death Do Us Part Friday $492,644 $3,424,454

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 29.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania $42,522,194 $148,313,048
2002 Sweet Home Alabama $35,648,740 $127,214,072
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $34,017,930 $119,793,567
2018 Night School $27,257,615 $77,339,130
2006 Open Season $23,624,548 $85,105,259
2018 Smallfoot $23,045,635 $83,240,103
2007 The Game Plan $22,950,971 $90,648,202
2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie $22,764,354 $65,343,309
2000 Remember the Titans $20,905,831 $115,719,751
2012 Looper $20,801,552 $66,486,205

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Greer Garson (1904, died on April 6, 1996 at the age of 91), Ted de Corsia (1905, died on April 11, 1973 at the age of 67), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912, died on July 30, 2007 at the age of 94), Stanley Kramer (1913, died on February 19, 2001 at the age of 87), Trevor Howard (1913, died on January 7, 1988 at the age of 74), Brenda Marshall (1915, died on July 30, 1992 at the age of 76), Peter Arne (1920, died on August 1, 1983 at the age of 62), Lizabeth Scott (1922, died on January 31, 2015 at the age of 92), Steve Forrest (1925, died on May 18, 2013 at the age of 87), Anita Ekberg (1931, died on January 11, 2015 at the age of 83), Eddie Barth (1931, turns 93 this year), Robert Benton (1932, turns 92 this year), Alan Hopgood (1934, died on March 19, 2022 at the age of 87), Mylene Demongeot (1935, turns 89 this year), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935, died on October 28, 2022 at the age of 87), James Frawley (1936, died on January 22, 2019 at the age of 82), Ian McShane (1942, turns 82 this year), Madeline Kahn (1942, died on December 3, 1999 at the age of 57), Donna Corcoran (1942, turns 82 this year), Toni Myers (1943, died on February 18, 2019 at the age of 75), Isla Blair (1944, turns 80 this year), Mike Post (1944, turns 80 this year), Reggie Bannister (1945, turns 79 this year), Martin Ferrero (1947, turns 77 this year), Donovan Scott (1947, turns 77 this year), Bryant Gumbel (1948, turns 76 this year), C.J. Jones (1950, turns 74 this year), Gabor Csupo (1952, turns 72 this year), Miguel Angel Fuentes (1953, turns 71 this year), Mark Mitchell (1954, turns 70 this year), Cindy Morgan (1954, turns 70 this year), Stuart Charno (1956, turns 68 this year), Andrew Dice Clay (1957, turns 67 this year), Karen Young (1958, turns 66 this year), Raymond Thiry (1959, turns 65 this year), Dale Dickey (1961, turns 63 this year), Roger Bart (1962, turns 62 this year), Francis Jue (1963, turns 61 this year), Rune Temte (1965, turns 59 this year), Ben Miles (1966, turns 58 this year), Luke Goss (1968, turns 56 this year), Mindy Burbano (1968, turns 56 this year), Samir Soni (1968, turns 56 this year), Matt Goss (1968, turns 56 this year), Erika Eleniak (1969, turns 55 this year), Natasha Gregson Wagner (1970, turns 54 this year), Russell Peters (1970, turns 54 this year), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970, turns 54 this year), Emily Lloyd (1970, turns 54 this year), Mackenzie Crook (1971, turns 53 this year), Theodore Shapiro (1971, turns 53 this year), Robert Webb (1972, turns 52 this year), Brad Kane (1973, turns 51 this year), James Lance (1974, turns 50 this year), Matt Hullum (1974, turns 50 this year), Alexis Cruz (1974, turns 50 this year), Anna Khaja (1974, turns 50 this year), Henriette Steenstrup (1974, turns 50 this year), Steve Yedlin (1975, turns 49 this year), Jason Hehir (1976, turns 48 this year), Sasha Rionda (1977, turns 47 this year), Nathan West (1978, turns 46 this year), Michael Ford-Fitzgerald (1979, turns 45 this year), Zachary Levi (1980, turns 44 this year), Chrissy Metz (1980, turns 44 this year), Julie R. Ølgaard (1981, turns 43 this year), Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (1982, died on December 13, 2022 at the age of 40), David Del Rio (1987, turns 37 this year), Helene Reingaard Neumann (1987, turns 37 this year), Halsey (1994, turns 30 this year), Marco Ilsø (1994, turns 30 this year), Sasha Lane (1995, turns 29 this year), Anna Jacoby-Heron (1995, turns 29 this year)

Died on this day in history: Edward Everett Horton (1970, at the age of 84), Gordon Douglas (1993, at the age of 85), Gloria Foster (2001, at the age of 67), Lois Maxwell (2007, at the age of 80), Tony Curtis (2010, at the age of 85), Tom Alter (2017, at the age of 67), Helen Reddy (2020, at the age of 78), Mac Davis (2020, at the age of 78)

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