On This Day - February 27
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | Friday | $22,800,000 | $370,782,930 |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Saturday | $14,160,782 | $363,070,709 |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Saturday | $10,323,195 | $128,012,934 |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Tuesday | $10,204,038 | $700,059,566 |
| 2010 | Cop Out | Saturday | $7,742,374 | $44,875,481 |
| 2010 | Avatar | Saturday | $6,639,830 | $785,221,649 |
| 2015 | Focus | Friday | $6,451,899 | $53,862,963 |
| 2010 | The Crazies | Saturday | $6,346,995 | $39,123,589 |
| 2022 | Uncharted | Sunday | $6,317,243 | $148,648,820 |
| 1999 | 8MM | Saturday | $5,875,000 | $36,443,442 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Focus | Friday | $6,451,899 | $53,862,963 |
| 2009 | Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | Friday | $4,960,309 | $19,162,740 |
| 2015 | The Lazarus Effect | Friday | $3,786,762 | $25,801,570 |
| 2004 | Twisted | Friday | $2,900,000 | $25,195,050 |
| 2004 | Dirty Dancing Havana Nights | Friday | $2,200,000 | $14,140,215 |
| 1998 | Dark City | Friday | $1,950,000 | $14,435,076 |
| 2009 | Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li | Friday | $1,764,444 | $8,742,261 |
| 2004 | Club Dread | Friday | $1,300,000 | $5,001,655 |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's Tribe | Friday | $910,000 | $7,571,115 |
| 2015 | A La Mala | Friday | $429,302 | $3,629,842 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | The Passion of the Christ | $83,848,082 | $370,782,930 |
| 2016 | Deadpool | $31,115,195 | $363,070,709 |
| 2022 | Uncharted | $23,001,773 | $148,648,820 |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | $22,665,205 | $128,012,934 |
| 2005 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | $21,905,089 | $50,406,346 |
| 2005 | Hitch | $20,420,799 | $177,784,257 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $19,633,056 | $674,460,013 |
| 2015 | Focus | $18,685,137 | $53,862,963 |
| 2010 | Cop Out | $18,211,126 | $44,875,481 |
| 2009 | Madea Goes To Jail | $16,175,926 | $90,508,336 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: K-POPS!, Uma Musume: Pretty Derby — Beginning of a New Era, Scream 7, Undercard, Dreams, The Napa Boys, Matter of Time
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: William Demarest (1892, died on December 28, 1983 at the age of 91), Ed Brophy (1895, died on May 27, 1960 at the age of 65), Franchot Tone (1905, died on September 18, 1968 at the age of 63), Joan Bennett (1910, died on December 7, 1990 at the age of 80), Michael Fox (1921, died on June 1, 1996 at the age of 75), Dexter Gordon (1923, died on April 25, 1990 at the age of 67), Lynn Cartwright (1927, died on January 2, 2004 at the age of 76), Joanne Woodward (1930, turns 96 this year), Peter Stone (1930, died on April 26, 2003 at the age of 73), Elizabeth Taylor (1932, died on March 23, 2011 at the age of 79), Ralph Nader (1934, turns 92 this year), Barbara Babcock (1937, turns 89 this year), P.H. Moriarty (1939, died on February 2, 2025 at the age of 85), Bill Hunter (1940, died on May 21, 2011 at the age of 71), Howard Hesseman (1940, died on January 29, 2022 at the age of 81), Charlotte Stewart (1941, turns 85 this year), Alan Fudge (1944, died on October 10, 2011 at the age of 67), Bolo Yeung (1946, turns 80 this year), Debra Monk (1949, turns 77 this year), Rene Kirby (1955, turns 71 this year), Angela Aames (1956, died on November 27, 1988 at the age of 32), Timothy Spall (1957, turns 69 this year), Grant Shaud (1961, turns 65 this year), Adam Baldwin (1962, turns 64 this year), Grant Show (1962, turns 64 this year), John Pyper-Ferguson (1964, turns 62 this year), Noah Emmerich (1965, turns 61 this year), Baltasar Kormakur (1966, turns 60 this year), Donal Logue (1966, turns 60 this year), Rozonda Thomas (1971, turns 55 this year), Charles Baker (1971, turns 55 this year), Susan Yeagley (1971, turns 55 this year), Richard Coyle (1972, turns 54 this year), Li Bingbing (1973, turns 53 this year), Quentin Kenihan (1975, died on October 6, 2018 at the age of 43), Christopher Landon (1975, turns 51 this year), Nikki Amuka-Bird (1976, turns 50 this year), Stoney Jackson (1976, turns 50 this year), Ji Sung (1977, turns 49 this year), Loredana Simioli (1978, died on June 26, 2019 at the age of 41), Alba Rohrwacher (1979, turns 47 this year), Stephen Wight (1980, turns 46 this year), Josh Groban (1981, turns 45 this year), Juan Riedlinger (1981, turns 45 this year), Adetokumboh M'Cormack (1982, turns 44 this year), Kate Mara (1983, turns 43 this year), Stephanie Beran (1983, turns 43 this year), Jenni 'JWOWW' Farley (1985, turns 41 this year), Kim Whalen (1985, turns 41 this year), Lindsey Morgan (1990, turns 36 this year), Theo Stevenson (1998, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: George Tobias (1980, at the age of 78), J. Pat O'Malley (1985, at the age of 80), David Huffman (1985, at the age of 39), Joe Silver (1989, at the age of 66), Lillian Gish (1993, at the age of 99), J.T. Walsh (1998, at the age of 54), Fred Rogers (2003, at the age of 74), Gary Winick (2011, at the age of 49), Leonard Nimoy (2015, at the age of 83), Bruce Golin (2016, at the age of 83), R.D. Call (2020, at the age of 70), Gene Dynarski (2020, at the age of 26), Ned Eisenberg (2022, at the age of 65), Burny Mattinson (2023, at the age of 87), Ricou Browning (2023, at the age of 92), Richard Lewis (2024, at the age of 92), Michael Culver (2024, at the age of 85), Michael Preece (2025, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.