On This Day - August 30
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | Friday | $8,868,530 | $28,873,374 |
| 2009 | The Final Destination | Sunday | $6,402,975 | $66,477,700 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Saturday | $6,220,274 | $333,714,112 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | Saturday | $5,443,000 | $35,623,801 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Sunday | $5,386,278 | $120,774,594 |
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Saturday | $4,532,929 | $191,204,754 |
| 2008 | Tropic Thunder | Saturday | $4,200,171 | $110,515,313 |
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | Sunday | $3,707,560 | $161,197,785 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Friday | $3,620,610 | $116,632,095 |
| 2003 | Freaky Friday | Saturday | $3,511,000 | $110,222,438 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | Friday | $8,868,530 | $28,873,374 |
| 2013 | No se Aceptan Devoluciones | Friday | $1,928,863 | $44,467,206 |
| 2002 | FearDotCom | Friday | $1,800,000 | $13,208,023 |
| 2013 | Getaway | Friday | $1,430,885 | $10,501,938 |
| 2019 | Don’t Let Go | Friday | $760,446 | $5,215,062 |
| 2019 | Tod@s Caen | Friday | $334,345 | $2,670,925 |
| 2019 | Bennett’s War | Friday | $143,675 | $725,042 |
| 2013 | Satyagraha | Friday | $115,420 | $738,525 |
| 2019 | Official Secrets | Friday | $19,934 | $1,996,766 |
| 2019 | Before You Know It | Friday | $7,420 | $151,307 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 30.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Final Destination | $27,408,309 | $66,477,700 |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | $19,303,653 | $120,774,594 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | $17,082,262 | $333,714,112 |
| 2009 | Halloween 2 | $16,349,565 | $33,392,973 |
| 2013 | One Direction: This is Us | $15,815,497 | $28,873,374 |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers 2 | $15,269,324 | $35,623,801 |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | $14,878,286 | $116,632,095 |
| 2002 | Signs | $13,440,774 | $227,969,295 |
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | $13,133,560 | $161,197,785 |
| 2013 | We’re the Millers | $12,715,243 | $150,394,119 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Reagan, Kraven the Hunter, City of Dreams
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Mary Shelley (1797, died on February 1, 1851 at the age of 53), Raymond Massey (1896, died on July 29, 1983 at the age of 86), John Eldredge (1904, turns 120 this year), Joan Blondell (1906, died on December 25, 1979 at the age of 73), Fred MacMurray (1908, died on November 5, 1991 at the age of 83), William Duell (1923, died on December 22, 2011 at the age of 88), Peter Brace (1924, turns 100 this year), Donald Symington (1925, died on July 24, 2013 at the age of 87), Laurent De Brunhoff (1925, died on March 22, 2024 at the age of 98), Warren Buffett (1930, turns 94 this year), Luis Bacalov (1933, died on November 15, 2017 at the age of 84), Tom Lacy (1933, turns 91 this year), Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934, died on June 11, 1982 at the age of 47), John Phillips (1935, died on March 18, 2001 at the age of 65), Elizabeth Ashley (1939, turns 85 this year), William G. Schilling (1939, died on February 28, 2019 at the age of 79), Suzanne Roquette (1942, turns 82 this year), Wolf Roth (1944, turns 80 this year), Peggy Lipton (1946, died on May 11, 2019 at the age of 72), Lewis Black (1948, turns 76 this year), Brian Yuzna (1949, turns 75 this year), Christopher Collins (1949, turns 75 this year), Timothy Bottoms (1951, turns 73 this year), Lech Majewski (1953, turns 71 this year), Robin Harris (1953, died on March 18, 1990 at the age of 36), David Paymer (1954, turns 70 this year), Ely Pouget (1960, turns 64 this year), Rick McKay (1960, died on January 29, 2018 at the age of 57), Karl T. Wright (1961, turns 63 this year), Michael Chiklis (1963, turns 61 this year), Nelson Ascencio (1964, turns 60 this year), Laeta Kalogridis (1965, turns 59 this year), Michael Michele (1966, turns 58 this year), Frederique Van Der Wal (1967, turns 57 this year), Annika Pergament (1968, turns 56 this year), Kent Osborne (1969, turns 55 this year), Lars P. Winther (1969, turns 55 this year), Dylan Kidd (1969, turns 55 this year), Cameron Diaz (1972, turns 52 this year), Michael Ohoven (1974, turns 50 this year), Sarah-Jane Potts (1976, turns 48 this year), Elden Henson (1977, turns 47 this year), Leon Lopez (1979, turns 45 this year), Marin Ireland (1979, turns 45 this year), Fletcher Sheridan (1980, turns 44 this year), Michael Kennedy (1980, turns 44 this year), Csilla Barath (1981, turns 43 this year), Tony Yo-ning Yang (1982, turns 42 this year), Emily Montague (1984, turns 40 this year), Max Hoffman (1984, turns 40 this year), Holly Weston (1985, turns 39 this year), Johanna Braddy (1987, turns 37 this year), Cameron Finley (1987, turns 37 this year), Bebe Rexha (1989, turns 35 this year), Gaia Weiss (1991, turns 33 this year), Jessica Henwick (1992, turns 32 this year), Raffey Cassidy (2002, turns 22 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean Seberg (1979, at the age of 40), Vera Ellen (1981, at the age of -40), Lindsay Anderson (1994, at the age of 71), Charles Bronson (2003, at the age of 81), Glenn Ford (2006, at the age of 90), Andrew V. McLaglen (2014, at the age of 94), Brad Anderson (2015, at the age of 91), Wes Craven (2015, at the age of 76), Alan MacDonald (2017, at the age of 76), Károly Makk (2017, at the age of 91), Franco Columbu (2019, at the age of 78), Valerie Harper (2019, at the age of 80), Mikhail Gorbachev (2022, at the age of 91)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.