On This Day - October 4
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Saturday | $15,175,369 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | Saturday | $13,979,788 | $84,273,813 |
| 2015 | The Martian | Sunday | $13,911,129 | $228,433,663 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Saturday | $12,482,375 | $94,514,402 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sunday | $9,982,870 | $169,700,110 |
| 2003 | School of Rock | Saturday | $8,712,422 | $81,261,177 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | Saturday | $8,446,549 | $101,530,738 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Friday | $39,350,693 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Friday | $17,484,818 | $274,092,705 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Friday | $13,478,355 | $92,955,420 |
| 2013 | Runner Runner | Friday | $2,786,580 | $19,316,646 |
| 2002 | Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie | Friday | $1,898,000 | $25,571,351 |
| 2013 | Pulling Strings | Friday | $758,787 | $5,842,961 |
| 2021 | God’s Not Dead: We the People | Monday | $387,379 | $1,170,387 |
| 2013 | Grace Unplugged | Friday | $346,973 | $2,507,159 |
| 2019 | Lucy in the Sky | Friday | $19,405 | $319,976 |
| 2013 | Nothing Left to Fear | Friday | $3,759 | $7,886 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 4.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | $96,202,337 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $55,785,112 | $274,092,705 |
| 2015 | The Martian | $54,308,575 | $228,433,663 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | $37,513,109 | $167,767,189 |
| 2014 | Annabelle | $37,134,255 | $84,273,813 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | $36,540,945 | $92,955,420 |
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $33,192,596 | $169,700,110 |
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua | $29,300,465 | $94,514,402 |
| 2009 | Zombieland | $24,733,155 | $75,590,286 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | $21,325,435 | $127,214,072 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: White Bird, Joker: Folie á Deux
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Buster Keaton (1895, died on February 1, 1966 at the age of 70), John Larch (1914, died on October 16, 2005 at the age of 91), George Sidney (1916, died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 85), Charlton Heston (1923, died on April 5, 2008 at the age of 84), Edmund Lyndeck (1925, died on December 14, 2015 at the age of 90), Scotty Beckett (1929, turns 95 this year), Erwin C. Dietrich (1930, died on March 15, 2018 at the age of 87), Stan Dragoti (1932, died on July 13, 2018 at the age of 85), Robert Wilson (1941, turns 83 this year), Anne Rice (1941, died on December 11, 2021 at the age of 80), Mick Jackson (1943, turns 81 this year), Kate McGregor-Stewart (1944, turns 80 this year), Michael C. Gross (1945, died on November 16, 2015 at the age of 70), Clifton Davis (1945, turns 79 this year), Susan Sarandon (1946, turns 78 this year), Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949, turns 75 this year), Armand Assante (1949, turns 75 this year), Alan Rosenberg (1950, turns 74 this year), Rob Fruithof (1951, died on August 25, 2023 at the age of 71), Tcheky Karyo (1953, turns 71 this year), Christopher Fairbank (1953, turns 71 this year), Kerry Sherman (1953, turns 71 this year), Christoph Waltz (1956, turns 68 this year), Bill Fagerbakke (1957, turns 67 this year), Wendy Makkena (1958, turns 66 this year), Annabelle Lanyon (1960, turns 64 this year), Loren Lester (1960, turns 64 this year), Mike Norris (1962, turns 62 this year), Mark Powley (1963, turns 61 this year), Sarah Lancashire (1964, turns 60 this year), Leah Daniels-Butler (1965, turns 59 this year), Caroline Barclay (1966, turns 58 this year), Liev Schreiber (1967, turns 57 this year), Abraham Benrubi (1969, turns 55 this year), Jerry Minor (1969, turns 55 this year), Hoyte Van Hoytema (1971, turns 53 this year), Mark Kassen (1971, turns 53 this year), Pablo Trapero (1971, turns 53 this year), Trond Espen Seim (1971, turns 53 this year), Dennis Gansel (1973, turns 51 this year), Paco Leon (1974, turns 50 this year), Alicia Silverstone (1976, turns 48 this year), Alycia Delmore (1977, turns 47 this year), Phillip Glasser (1978, turns 46 this year), Rachael Leigh Cook (1979, turns 45 this year), Caitriona Balfe (1979, turns 45 this year), Dana Davis (1979, turns 45 this year), Nick Mohammed (1980, turns 44 this year), Vicky Krieps (1983, turns 41 this year), Laila Berzins (1983, turns 41 this year), Gerard Kearns (1984, turns 40 this year), James Landry Hebert (1984, turns 40 this year), Natalia Ryumina (1984, turns 40 this year), Cody McMains (1985, turns 39 this year), Kali Hawk (1986, turns 38 this year), Sara Forestier (1986, turns 38 this year), Michael Charles Roman (1987, turns 37 this year), Melissa Benoist (1988, turns 36 this year), Dakota Johnson (1989, turns 35 this year), Cole Hawkins (1991, turns 33 this year), Sam Earle (1993, turns 31 this year), Ella Balinska (1996, turns 28 this year), Ryan Lee (1996, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: Graham Chapman (1989, at the age of 48), Tom Bell (2006, at the age of 73), William Tepper (2017, at the age of 73), Audrey Wells (2018, at the age of 58), Will Vinton (2018, at the age of 70), Diahann Carroll (2019, at the age of 84), Clark Middleton (2020, at the age of 62), Shawna Trpcic (2023, at the age of 57)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.