On This Day - September 5

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 5.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Sunday $22,696,386 $224,543,292
1999 The Sixth Sense Sunday $8,820,000 $293,506,292
2011 The Help Monday $5,286,948 $169,705,587
2009 The Final Destination Saturday $4,551,785 $66,477,700
2010 The American Sunday $4,491,927 $35,606,376
2009 Inglourious Basterds Saturday $4,076,522 $120,774,594
2009 All About Steve Saturday $4,003,566 $33,862,903
2016 Don’t Breathe Monday $3,874,704 $89,217,875
2010 Machete Sunday $3,744,514 $26,593,646
2010 Takers Sunday $3,606,969 $57,744,720

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 5.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2008 Bangkok Dangerous Friday $2,742,090 $15,298,133
2003 Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star Friday $2,049,000 $22,734,486
1997 Fire Down Below Friday $1,817,651 $16,148,906
2003 The Order Friday $1,589,000 $7,659,747
2014 The Identical Friday $532,544 $2,827,666
2019 K-12 Thursday $303,230 $303,230
2008 Everybody Wants to Be Italian Friday $64,238 $351,416
2014 The Remaining Friday $50,475 $1,169,603
1997 Julian Po Friday $10,081 $33,148
1997 Mouth to Mouth Friday $6,552 $62,411

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 5.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $75,388,688 $224,543,292
1999 The Sixth Sense $29,271,146 $293,506,292
2020 Tenet $20,001,852 $58,504,105
1993 The Fugitive $17,239,413 $183,875,760
2010 The American $13,177,790 $35,606,376
2009 The Final Destination $12,368,882 $66,477,700
2009 Inglourious Basterds $11,629,393 $120,774,594
2010 Machete $11,416,164 $26,593,646
2009 All About Steve $11,241,214 $33,862,903
1998 There's Something About Mary $10,920,201 $176,484,651

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Untitled New Line Horror

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Darryl F. Zanuck (1902, died on December 22, 1979 at the age of 77), Frank Thomas (1912, died on September 8, 2004 at the age of 92), Stuart Freeborn (1914, died on February 5, 2013 at the age of 98), Paul Volcker (1927, died on December 8, 2019 at the age of 92), Bob Newhart (1929, turns 95 this year), Edward S. Feldman (1929, died on October 2, 2020 at the age of 91), Dennis Letts (1934, died on February 22, 2008 at the age of 73), Alejandro Sieveking (1934, died on March 5, 2020 at the age of 85), Dick Clement (1937, turns 87 this year), George Lazenby (1939, turns 85 this year), William Devane (1939, turns 85 this year), Stephen Lawrence (1939, died on December 30, 2021 at the age of 82), Raquel Welch (1940, died on February 15, 2023 at the age of 82), Werner Herzog (1942, turns 82 this year), Jack Charles (1943, died on September 13, 2022 at the age of 79), Dennis Dugan (1946, turns 78 this year), Freddie Mercury (1946, turns 78 this year), Michael Keaton (1951, turns 73 this year), Debbie Turner (1956, turns 68 this year), Graham Yost (1959, turns 65 this year), Denis Forest (1960, died on March 18, 2002 at the age of 41), Peter Wingfield (1962, turns 62 this year), Matthew Barry (1962, turns 62 this year), Terry Ellis (1963, turns 61 this year), Thomas Mikal Ford (1964, died on October 12, 2016 at the age of 52), Sergei Loznitsa (1964, turns 60 this year), Christopher Morris (1965, turns 59 this year), Achero Manas (1966, turns 58 this year), Dweezil Zappa (1969, turns 55 this year), Johnny Vegas (1970, turns 54 this year), Liam Lynch (1970, turns 54 this year), Lucy Decoutere (1970, turns 54 this year), Hye-su Kim (1970, turns 54 this year), Rose McGowan (1973, turns 51 this year), Paddy Considine (1973, turns 51 this year), Carice van Houten (1976, turns 48 this year), Joey Kern (1976, turns 48 this year), Laura Bertram (1978, turns 46 this year), Nan Yu (1978, turns 46 this year), Christine Marzano (1986, turns 38 this year), Korrina Rico (1987, turns 37 this year), Kat Graham (1989, turns 35 this year), Max Mittelman (1990, turns 34 this year), Skandar Keynes (1991, turns 33 this year), Paulina Singer (1991, turns 33 this year), Gage Golightly (1993, turns 31 this year), Caroline Sunshine (1995, turns 29 this year)

Died on this day in history: Gert Fröbe (1988, at the age of 75), Leo Penn (1998, at the age of 77), Cliff Gorman (2002, at the age of 65), Donald Ranvaud (2016, at the age of 62), Hugh O’Brian (2016, at the age of 91), Hansford Rowe (2017, at the age of 93), Christopher Lawford (2018, at the age of 63), Jiri Menzel (2020, at the age of 82), Tony Selby (2021, at the age of 83)

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