On This Day - August 4
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Sunday | $30,403,979 | $636,745,858 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Saturday | $25,290,665 | $227,471,070 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Saturday | $23,636,500 | $226,164,286 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Friday | $18,016,961 | $148,213,377 |
| 2002 | Signs | Sunday | $17,548,154 | $227,969,295 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Friday | $16,543,731 | $636,785,476 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Sunday | $15,880,625 | $173,956,935 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | Saturday | $14,731,942 | $220,159,104 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Saturday | $14,273,114 | $448,139,099 |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Friday | $12,146,883 | $82,633,033 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 4.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Friday | $18,016,961 | $148,213,377 |
| 2023 | Meg 2: The Trench | Friday | $12,146,883 | $82,633,033 |
| 2000 | Hollow Man | Friday | $9,082,000 | $73,209,340 |
| 2017 | The Dark Tower | Friday | $7,724,436 | $50,701,325 |
| 2000 | Coyote Ugly | Friday | $7,116,000 | $60,786,269 |
| 2006 | Barnyard: The Original Party Animals | Friday | $5,481,275 | $72,779,000 |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Friday | $5,206,000 | $90,454,043 |
| 2017 | Kidnap | Friday | $3,729,150 | $30,718,107 |
| 2006 | The Descent | Friday | $3,389,298 | $26,024,456 |
| 2015 | Doragon bôru Z: Fukkatsu no 'F' | Tuesday | $1,975,568 | $8,008,363 |
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 4.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $96,809,328 | $636,745,858 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | $69,283,690 | $227,471,070 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | $67,408,222 | $226,164,286 |
| 2002 | Signs | $60,116,619 | $227,969,295 |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | $60,038,950 | $173,956,935 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $53,008,647 | $636,785,476 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | $47,042,215 | $148,213,377 |
| 2019 | The Lion King | $38,520,022 | $543,638,043 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $35,737,330 | $448,139,099 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | $35,323,815 | $220,159,104 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Joseph Calleia (1897, died on October 31, 1975 at the age of 78), Anita Page (1910, died on September 6, 2008 at the age of 98), Wesley Addy (1913, died on December 31, 1996 at the age of 83), Kishore Kumar (1929, died on October 13, 1987 at the age of 58), Jeanne Carmen (1930, died on December 20, 2007 at the age of 77), David Seidler (1937, died on March 16, 2024 at the age of 86), Martin Jarvis (1941, turns 84 this year), Paul Mooney (1941, died on May 19, 2021 at the age of 79), Don S. Davis (1942, turns 83 this year), Richard Belzer (1944, died on February 19, 2023 at the age of 78), William Frankfather (1944, died on December 28, 1998 at the age of 54), Ian Liston (1948, died on October 1, 2016 at the age of 68), Sara Botsford (1951, turns 74 this year), Kristoffer Tabori (1952, turns 73 this year), Donald Gibb (1954, turns 71 this year), Billy Bob Thornton (1955, turns 70 this year), Victor Love (1957, turns 68 this year), Kym Karath (1958, turns 67 this year), Bernard Rose (1960, turns 65 this year), Lauren Tom (1961, turns 64 this year), Barack Obama (1961, turns 64 this year), Sebastian Roche (1964, turns 61 this year), James Tupper (1965, turns 60 this year), Amelia Campbell (1965, turns 60 this year), Timothy Adams (1967, turns 58 this year), Arbaaz Khan (1967, turns 58 this year), Daniel Dae Kim (1968, turns 57 this year), Lexie Bigham (1968, turns 57 this year), Fenella Woolgar (1969, turns 56 this year), Vlad Ivanov (1969, turns 56 this year), Ron Lester (1970, died on June 17, 2016 at the age of 45), Kristin Richardson (1970, turns 55 this year), John August (1970, turns 55 this year), Thomas J. Churchill (1970, turns 55 this year), Dan Payne (1972, turns 53 this year), Sabine Singh (1974, turns 51 this year), Sari Lennick (1975, turns 50 this year), Daniella van Graas (1975, turns 50 this year), David Lewis (1976, turns 49 this year), Marco Bocci (1977, turns 48 this year), Satoshi Hino (1978, turns 47 this year), Nikolett Barabas (1979, turns 46 this year), Abigail Spencer (1981, turns 44 this year), Meghan Markle (1981, turns 44 this year), Marques Houston (1981, turns 44 this year), Greta Gerwig (1983, turns 42 this year), Adhir Kalyan (1983, turns 42 this year), Lily Costner (1986, turns 39 this year), Sam Underwood (1987, turns 38 this year), David Kaye (1988, turns 37 this year), Jessica Mauboy (1989, turns 36 this year), Chet Hanks (1990, turns 35 this year), Cole Sprouse (1992, turns 33 this year), Dylan Sprouse (1992, turns 33 this year), Meghan Rienks (1993, turns 32 this year), Emilija Baranac (1994, turns 31 this year), Lara Peake (1998, turns 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Melvyn Douglas (1981, at the age of 80), Victor Mature (1999, at the age of 86), Blake Snyder (2009, at the age of 51), Kathleen M. Shea (2017, at the age of 71), Daisy Coleman (2020, at the age of 23), Christian Barbier (2022, at the age of 82), Luis Alarcón (2023, at the age of 93), Charles Ogletree (2023, at the age of 70), Charles Cyphers (2024, at the age of 85)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.