On This Day - October 7
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Venom | Sunday | $21,380,299 | $213,511,408 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | Sunday | $12,321,133 | $215,288,866 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | Sunday | $12,214,296 | $139,854,287 |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | Saturday | $11,819,000 | $166,225,040 |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Saturday | $11,301,357 | $92,054,159 |
| 2006 | The Departed | Saturday | $10,743,556 | $132,384,315 |
| 2019 | Joker | Monday | $9,702,049 | $335,451,311 |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Friday | $9,261,655 | $75,395,035 |
| 2023 | The Exorcist: Believer | Saturday | $9,034,495 | $65,537,395 |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Sunday | $8,771,278 | $148,313,048 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | Friday | $9,261,655 | $75,395,035 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | Friday | $8,533,690 | $85,463,309 |
| 2022 | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Friday | $3,630,915 | $46,888,441 |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | Friday | $3,426,434 | $40,962,534 |
| 2005 | In Her Shoes | Friday | $3,011,843 | $32,880,591 |
| 2005 | 2 For the Money | Friday | $2,917,020 | $22,991,379 |
| 2022 | Amsterdam | Friday | $2,642,736 | $14,947,969 |
| 2016 | The Birth of a Nation | Friday | $2,619,859 | $15,861,566 |
| 2005 | The Gospel | Friday | $2,596,454 | $15,778,152 |
| 2005 | Waiting... | Friday | $2,145,611 | $16,124,543 |
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 7.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Venom | $80,255,756 | $213,511,408 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | $49,514,769 | $139,854,287 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | $42,908,051 | $215,288,866 |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | $32,753,122 | $92,054,159 |
| 2000 | Meet the Parents | $28,623,300 | $166,225,040 |
| 2011 | Real Steel | $27,319,677 | $85,463,309 |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | $27,053,395 | $148,313,048 |
| 2006 | The Departed | $26,887,467 | $132,384,315 |
| 2023 | The Exorcist: Believer | $26,497,600 | $65,537,395 |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train | $24,536,265 | $75,395,035 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Andy Devine (1905, died on February 18, 1977 at the age of 71), June Allyson (1917, died on July 8, 2006 at the age of 88), Helmut Dantine (1917, died on May 2, 1982 at the age of 64), Tony Beckley (1927, died on April 19, 1980 at the age of 52), Graeme Ferguson (1929, died on May 8, 2021 at the age of 91), Desmond Tutu (1931, died on December 26, 2021 at the age of 90), Paul Vachon (1937, died on February 29, 2024 at the age of 86), Joy Behar (1942, turns 83 this year), Austin Stoker (1943, died on October 7, 2022 at the age of 79), Michael Wallis (1945, turns 80 this year), Jill Larson (1947, turns 78 this year), John Mellencamp (1951, turns 74 this year), Mary Badham (1952, turns 73 this year), Mark Radcliffe (1952, turns 73 this year), James Van Patten (1956, turns 69 this year), Screaming Mad George (1956, turns 69 this year), Michael W. Smith (1957, turns 68 this year), Joey Marquez (1957, turns 68 this year), Marcus Lamb (1957, died on November 30, 2021 at the age of 64), Frank Deal (1958, turns 67 this year), Dylan Baker (1959, turns 66 this year), Simon Cowell (1959, turns 66 this year), Gary Scott Thompson (1959, turns 66 this year), Wendy Vanden Heuvel (1959, turns 66 this year), Warrington Gillette (1960, turns 65 this year), David Born (1960, turns 65 this year), Lynette Walden (1961, turns 64 this year), Jacqueline Antaramian (1962, turns 63 this year), Tammy Klein (1963, turns 62 this year), Marco Beltrami (1966, turns 59 this year), Toni Braxton (1967, turns 58 this year), Andrew Dominik (1967, turns 58 this year), Thom Yorke (1968, turns 57 this year), Nicole Ari Parker (1970, turns 55 this year), Sabrina Grdevich (1970, turns 55 this year), James Whitaker (1970, turns 55 this year), Ben Younger (1972, turns 53 this year), Sharad Kelkar (1972, turns 53 this year), Jessy Terrero (1972, turns 53 this year), Christine Conradt (1973, turns 52 this year), Numan Acar (1974, turns 51 this year), Alexander Polinsky (1974, turns 51 this year), Tim Minchin (1975, turns 50 this year), Jamie Hector (1975, turns 50 this year), Yeniffer Behrens (1976, turns 49 this year), Omar Benson Miller (1978, turns 47 this year), Tony Way (1978, turns 47 this year), Shao feng Feng (1978, turns 47 this year), Shawn Ashmore (1979, turns 46 this year), Aaron Ashmore (1979, turns 46 this year), Wei Tang (1979, turns 46 this year), Edison Chen (1980, turns 45 this year), Matt Dellapina (1980, turns 45 this year), Jake McLaughlin (1982, turns 43 this year), Giuseppe Sulfaro (1984, turns 41 this year), Hannah Fidell (1985, turns 40 this year), Bree Olson (1986, turns 39 this year), Holland Roden (1986, turns 39 this year), Connor Christie (1997, turns 28 this year), Lulu Wilson (2005, turns 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Mario Lanza (1959, at the age of 38), Gustaf Gründgens (1963, at the age of 63), Agnes de Mille (1993, at the age of 88), Cyril Cusack (1993, at the age of 82), Charles Rocket (2005, at the age of 56), Patrice Chéreau (2013, at the age of 68), Peggy McCay (2018, at the age of 90), Austin Stoker (2022, at the age of 79), Terence Davies (2023, at the age of 77), Cissy Houston (2024, at the age of 91), Nicholas Pryor (2024, at the age of 89)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.