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 |
2024 | The Wild Robot | Saturday | $14,405,440 | $143,901,945 |
2012 | Hotel Transylvania | Friday | $10,973,012 | $148,313,048 |
2018 | Night School | Friday | $9,520,825 | $77,339,130 |
2019 | Abominable | Saturday | $8,995,905 | $60,761,390 |
2014 | The Equalizer | Sunday | $8,150,391 | $101,530,738 |
2024 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Saturday | $7,467,509 | $294,100,435 |
2008 | Eagle Eye | Sunday | $6,971,596 | $101,440,743 |
2012 | Looper | Friday | $6,804,981 | $66,486,205 |
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 |
2018 | Night School | Friday | $9,520,825 | $77,339,130 |
2012 | Looper | Friday | $6,804,981 | $66,486,205 |
2018 | Smallfoot | Friday | $6,433,241 | $83,240,103 |
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 |
2018 | Hell Fest | Friday | $2,040,141 | $11,107,431 |
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 |
2024 | The Wild Robot | $35,790,150 | $143,901,945 |
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 |
2018 | Night School | $27,257,615 | $77,339,130 |
2018 | Smallfoot | $23,045,635 | $83,240,103 |
2007 | The Game Plan | $22,950,971 | $90,648,202 |
2012 | Looper | $20,801,552 | $66,486,205 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Ed Sullivan (1901, died on October 13, 1974 at the age of 73), Peter Finch (1916, died on January 14, 1977 at the age of 60), Joe Silver (1922, died on February 27, 1989 at the age of 66), Marcello Mastroianni (1924, died on December 19, 1996 at the age of 72), Brigitte Bardot (1934, turns 91 this year), Janet Munro (1934, died on December 6, 1972 at the age of 38), Ronald Lacey (1935, died on May 15, 1991 at the age of 55), Joel Fabiani (1936, turns 89 this year), Sandra Dorsey (1939, died on September 26, 2023 at the age of 83), Pierre Clementi (1942, died on December 27, 1999 at the age of 57), Marshall Bell (1942, turns 83 this year), J.T. Walsh (1943, died on February 27, 1998 at the age of 54), Matthew Cowles (1944, turns 81 this year), Manuel Porto (1945, died on September 28, 2021 at the age of 76), Jeffrey Jones (1946, turns 79 this year), Peter Egan (1946, turns 79 this year), Fiona Lewis (1946, turns 79 this year), Herbert Jr. Jefferson (1946, turns 79 this year), Michael Flynn (1947, turns 78 this year), Eloy Casados (1949, died on April 19, 2016 at the age of 66), John Sayles (1950, turns 75 this year), Sylvia Kristel (1952, died on October 17, 2012 at the age of 60), Jerry Stahl (1953, turns 72 this year), Kiran Shah (1956, turns 69 this year), Peter Gantzler (1958, turns 67 this year), Steve Hytner (1959, turns 66 this year), Gregory Jbara (1961, turns 64 this year), Sam Miller (1962, turns 63 this year), Susan Walters (1963, turns 62 this year), Janeane Garofalo (1964, turns 61 this year), Laura Ceron (1964, turns 61 this year), Brendan Kelly (1964, turns 61 this year), Christopher Evan Welch (1965, turns 60 this year), Joe Torry (1965, turns 60 this year), Roschdy Zem (1965, turns 60 this year), Puri Jagannadh (1966, turns 59 this year), Maria Canals-Barrera (1966, turns 59 this year), Michelle Schumacher (1966, turns 59 this year), Leilani Sarelle (1966, turns 59 this year), Bellina Logan (1966, turns 59 this year), Mira Sorvino (1967, turns 58 this year), Michael Oosterom (1967, turns 58 this year), Naomi Watts (1968, turns 57 this year), Jo Wyatt (1970, turns 55 this year), Matt Day (1971, turns 54 this year), Dita Von Teese (1972, turns 53 this year), Chris Hebert (1973, turns 52 this year), Peter Cambor (1978, turns 47 this year), Rikke Lylloff (1978, turns 47 this year), Erin Carufel (1978, turns 47 this year), Bam Margera (1979, turns 46 this year), Anndi McAfee (1979, turns 46 this year), Jerrika Hinton (1981, turns 44 this year), Melissa Claire Egan (1981, turns 44 this year), Daniel Bonjour (1981, turns 44 this year), Megumi Kagurazaka (1981, turns 44 this year), Ranbir Kapoor (1982, turns 43 this year), Matt Cohen (1982, turns 43 this year), Sarah Wright (1983, turns 42 this year), Sabina Gadecki (1983, turns 42 this year), Sarah Scott (1983, turns 42 this year), Tanisha Long (1984, turns 41 this year), Hilary Duff (1987, turns 38 this year), Hana Mae Lee (1988, turns 37 this year), Olivia Jordan (1988, turns 37 this year), Skye McCole Bartusiak (1992, turns 33 this year), Keir Gilchrist (1992, turns 33 this year), Jenna Craig (1999, turns 26 this year), Frankie Jonas (2000, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Norma Crane (1973, at the age of 44), Robert Helpmann (1986, at the age of 77), Elia Kazan (2003, at the age of 94), Helen Horton (2007, at the age of 83), Arthur Penn (2010, at the age of 88), 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), Gene Corman (2020, at the age of 93), Manuel Porto (2021, at the age of 76), Tommy Kirk (2021, at the age of 79), Coolio (2022, at the age of 59), Bruno Arena (2022, at the age of 65), Michael Gambon (2023, at the age of 82), Kris Kristofferson (2024, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.