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On This Day - September 28
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | Saturday | $15,078,511 | $119,793,567 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | Saturday | $14,707,798 | $127,214,072 |
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Friday | $10,973,012 | $148,313,048 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | Sunday | $8,150,391 | $101,530,738 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Sunday | $6,971,596 | $101,440,743 |
| 2012 | Looper | Friday | $6,804,981 | $66,486,205 |
| 2007 | The Game Plan | Friday | $6,336,390 | $90,648,202 |
| 2002 | The Tuxedo | Saturday | $6,329,676 | $50,586,000 |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Friday | $5,963,055 | $47,467,250 |
| 2001 | Don’t Say a Word | Friday | $5,763,000 | $54,997,476 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Friday | $10,973,012 | $148,313,048 |
| 2012 | Looper | Friday | $6,804,981 | $66,486,205 |
| 2007 | The Game Plan | Friday | $6,336,390 | $90,648,202 |
| 2007 | The Kingdom | Friday | $5,963,055 | $47,467,250 |
| 2001 | Don’t Say a Word | Friday | $5,763,000 | $54,997,476 |
| 2001 | Zoolander | Friday | $4,856,000 | $45,172,250 |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Friday | $2,811,000 | $24,185,781 |
| 2012 | Pitch Perfect | Friday | $1,755,935 | $65,001,093 |
| 2012 | Won't Back Down | Friday | $917,768 | $5,310,554 |
| 2007 | Feast of Love | Friday | $607,000 | $3,508,572 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 28.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hotel Transylvania | $42,522,194 | $148,313,048 |
| 2002 | Sweet Home Alabama | $35,648,740 | $127,214,072 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | $34,137,828 | $101,530,738 |
| 2013 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 | $34,017,930 | $119,793,567 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | $29,150,721 | $101,440,743 |
| 2007 | The Game Plan | $22,950,971 | $90,648,202 |
| 2012 | Looper | $20,801,552 | $66,486,205 |
| 2003 | The Rundown | $18,533,765 | $47,641,743 |
| 2014 | The Maze Runner | $17,437,020 | $102,427,862 |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | $17,275,239 | $50,837,305 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2018: Smallfoot, Night School, Boy Erased, Hell Fest, The Old Man and the Gun
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Janeane Garofalo (1964, turns 54 this year), Naomi Watts (1968, turns 50 this year)
Died on this day in history: Catherine E. Coulson (2015, at the age of 71), Marietta Marich (2017, at the age of 87), Benjamin Whitrow (2017, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.
