On This Day - September 3
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Friday | $29,502,259 | $224,543,292 |
| 2023 | The Equalizer 3 | Sunday | $10,512,162 | $92,373,751 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Monday | $6,611,877 | $174,532,921 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | Saturday | $5,947,359 | $89,217,875 |
| 2005 | The Transporter 2 | Saturday | $5,815,921 | $43,095,856 |
| 2011 | The Help | Saturday | $5,364,078 | $169,705,587 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Friday | $5,353,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | Saturday | $4,859,175 | $109,449,237 |
| 2006 | Invincible | Sunday | $4,502,442 | $57,806,952 |
| 2007 | Halloween | Monday | $4,229,392 | $58,269,151 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Friday | $29,502,259 | $224,543,292 |
| 2010 | Machete | Friday | $3,866,357 | $26,593,646 |
| 2010 | Going the Distance | Friday | $2,229,382 | $17,804,299 |
| 2004 | Paparazzi | Friday | $1,800,000 | $15,712,072 |
| 2004 | Wicker Park | Friday | $1,700,000 | $13,001,257 |
| 2004 | The Cookout | Friday | $1,600,000 | $11,540,112 |
| 2010 | We Are Family | Friday | $72,150 | $638,144 |
| 2021 | Tango Shalom | Friday | $4,725 | $102,651 |
| 2021 | Celle que vous croyez | Friday | $2,584 | $45,265 |
| 2010 | White Wedding | Friday | $2,384 | $11,711 |
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 3.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | $75,388,688 | $224,543,292 |
| 2023 | The Equalizer 3 | $34,604,229 | $92,373,751 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $29,271,146 | $293,506,292 |
| 1993 | The Fugitive | $17,239,413 | $183,875,760 |
| 2005 | The Transporter 2 | $16,540,720 | $43,095,856 |
| 2016 | Don’t Breathe | $15,833,223 | $89,217,875 |
| 2011 | The Help | $14,594,623 | $169,705,587 |
| 2000 | Bring it On | $14,170,825 | $68,353,550 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | $13,301,085 | $109,449,237 |
| 2010 | The American | $13,177,790 | $35,606,376 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Heather Thatcher (1896, turns 128 this year), Cecil Parker (1897, died on April 20, 1971 at the age of 73), Alan Ladd (1913, died on January 29, 1964 at the age of 50), Burt Kennedy (1922, died on February 15, 2001 at the age of 78), Anne Jackson (1925, died on April 12, 2016 at the age of 90), Uttam Kumar (1926, died on July 24, 1980 at the age of 53), Irene Papas (1926, died on September 14, 2022 at the age of 96), Nora Denney (1927, died on November 20, 2005 at the age of 78), Whitey Bulger (1929, died on October 30, 2018 at the age of 89), James R. Alexander (1930, died on August 19, 2019 at the age of 88), Eileen Brennan (1932, died on July 28, 2013 at the age of 80), David Byrd (1932, turns 92 this year), Christian Barbier (1939, died on August 4, 2022 at the age of 82), Pauline Collins (1940, turns 84 this year), Macha Meril (1940, turns 84 this year), Ray Xifo (1942, turns 82 this year), Valerie Perrine (1943, turns 81 this year), R. Bruce Elliott (1949, turns 75 this year), Lou Richards (1951, turns 73 this year), Shakti Kapoor (1952, turns 72 this year), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953, turns 71 this year), Stephen Woolley (1956, turns 68 this year), Adam Brooks (1956, turns 68 this year), Steve Schirripa (1957, turns 67 this year), Kevin McCorkle (1958, turns 66 this year), Merritt Butrick (1959, turns 65 this year), Holt McCallany (1963, turns 61 this year), A.J. Johnson (1963, turns 61 this year), Serena Gordon (1963, turns 61 this year), Daniel Myrick (1963, turns 61 this year), Beth McCarthy-Miller (1963, turns 61 this year), Spike Feresten (1964, turns 60 this year), Charlie Sheen (1965, turns 59 this year), Costas Mandylor (1965, turns 59 this year), Drena De Niro (1967, turns 57 this year), Catya Sassoon (1968, turns 56 this year), Raymond Coulthard (1968, turns 56 this year), John Fugelsang (1969, turns 55 this year), Noah Baumbach (1969, turns 55 this year), Maria Bamford (1970, turns 54 this year), Scott Robinson (1970, turns 54 this year), Trevor St. John (1971, turns 53 this year), Yuval Segal (1971, turns 53 this year), Maja Ostaszewska (1972, turns 52 this year), Jeroen Van Koningsbrugge (1973, turns 51 this year), Clare Kramer (1974, turns 50 this year), Daniel Chan (1975, turns 49 this year), Ashley Jones (1976, turns 48 this year), Shonka Dukureh (1977, died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 44), Nick Wechsler (1978, turns 46 this year), Nichole Hiltz (1978, turns 46 this year), David Shae (1981, turns 43 this year), Evgenia Brik (1981, died on February 10, 2022 at the age of 40), Angus Sutherland (1982, turns 42 this year), Christine Woods (1983, turns 41 this year), Garrett Hedlund (1984, turns 40 this year), Paz de la Huerta (1984, turns 40 this year), Yūki Kaji (1985, turns 39 this year), Leah McKendrick (1986, turns 38 this year), Shaun White (1986, turns 38 this year), Matteo Simoni (1987, turns 37 this year), Hana Makhmalbaf (1988, turns 36 this year), Rita Volk (1990, turns 34 this year), Nina Kiri (1992, turns 32 this year), Shota Sometani (1992, turns 32 this year), Ashley Boettcher (2000, turns 24 this year), Jack Dylan Grazer (2003, turns 21 this year), Eloise Webb (2003, turns 21 this year)
Died on this day in history: Eugene Pallette (1954, at the age of 55), Frank Capra (1991, at the age of 94), Edward Anhalt (2000, at the age of 86), Michael Clarke Duncan (2012, at the age of 54), Leslie H. Martinson (2016, at the age of 101), John Ashbery (2017, at the age of 90), John Byrne Cooke (2017, at the age of 76), Carol Lynley (2019, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.