On This Day - September 27

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 27.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sunday $14,387,467 $169,700,110
2014 The Equalizer Saturday $13,491,996 $101,530,738
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Friday $13,117,937 $127,214,072
2008 Eagle Eye Saturday $12,378,941 $101,440,743
2024 The Wild Robot Friday $11,197,075 $125,717,835
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Friday $9,245,997 $119,793,567
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Sunday $8,242,798 $124,870,275
2014 The Maze Runner Saturday $7,967,538 $102,427,862
2003 The Rundown Saturday $7,675,120 $47,641,743
2014 The Boxtrolls Saturday $7,459,080 $50,837,305

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 27.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Friday $13,117,937 $127,214,072
2024 The Wild Robot Friday $11,197,075 $125,717,835
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Friday $9,245,997 $119,793,567
2019 Abominable Friday $5,654,440 $60,761,390
2002 The Tuxedo Friday $4,595,676 $50,586,000
2024 Devara Part 1 Friday $3,900,000 $5,600,000
2013 Baggage Claim Friday $3,297,613 $21,569,509
2013 Don Jon Friday $3,288,247 $24,477,704
2024 Megalopolis Friday $1,853,074 $7,629,085
2019 Judy Friday $900,327 $24,319,961

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 27.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 $48,464,322 $169,700,110
2024 The Wild Robot $35,790,150 $125,717,835
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
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $25,038,803 $124,870,275
1998 Rush Hour $21,202,929 $141,186,864
2019 Abominable $20,612,100 $60,761,390
2003 The Rundown $18,533,765 $47,641,743

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Jim Thompson (1906, died on April 7, 1977 at the age of 70), Bernard Miles (1907, died on June 14, 1991 at the age of 83), Margery Mason (1913, died on January 26, 2014 at the age of 100), Jayne Meadows (1919, died on April 26, 2015 at the age of 95), William Conrad (1920, died on February 11, 1994 at the age of 73), Arthur Penn (1922, died on September 28, 2010 at the age of 88), Tony Giorgio (1923, died on February 1, 2012 at the age of 88), Yash Chopra (1932, died on October 21, 2012 at the age of 80), Greg Morris (1933, died on August 27, 1996 at the age of 62), Will Sampson (1933, died on June 3, 1987 at the age of 53), Kathleen Nolan (1933, turned 91 this year), Wilford Brimley (1934, died on August 1, 2020 at the age of 85), Jose Maria Sacristan (1937, turned 87 this year), Jean-Loup Dabadie (1938, died on May 24, 2020 at the age of 81), Garrick Hagon (1939, turned 85 this year), Roger Van Hool (1940, died on August 28, 2023 at the age of 82), Bob Spiers (1945, died on December 8, 2008 at the age of 63), Meat Loaf (1947, died on January 20, 2022 at the age of 74), Denis Lawson (1947, turned 77 this year), Liz Torres (1947, turned 77 this year), Tom Braidwood (1948, turned 76 this year), A. Martinez (1948, turned 76 this year), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950, turned 74 this year), Ren Osugi (1951, died on February 21, 2018 at the age of 66), Shaun Cassidy (1958, turned 66 this year), Irvine Welsh (1958, turned 66 this year), Jean-Marc Barr (1960, turned 64 this year), Christopher Cousins (1960, turned 64 this year), Debi Derryberry (1960, turned 64 this year), Andy Lau (1961, turned 63 this year), David McNally (1961, turned 63 this year), Marc Maron (1963, turned 61 this year), Scott Lawrence (1963, turned 61 this year), Sofia Milos (1965, turned 59 this year), Maria Schrader (1965, turned 59 this year), Patrick Muldoon (1968, turned 56 this year), Tod Williams (1968, turned 56 this year), Anthony Rhulen (1969, died on January 15, 2021 at the age of 51), Tamara Taylor (1970, turned 54 this year), Amanda Detmer (1971, turned 53 this year), Agata Kulesza (1971, turned 53 this year), Gwyneth Paltrow (1972, turned 52 this year), Indira Varma (1973, turned 51 this year), Carrie Brownstein (1974, turned 50 this year), Brandy Burre (1974, turned 50 this year), Travis Aaron Wade (1975, turned 49 this year), Jim Klock (1975, turned 49 this year), Jeff Pope (1976, turned 48 this year), Michael C. Maronna (1977, turned 47 this year), Zita Gorog (1979, turned 45 this year), Kristopher Turner (1980, turned 44 this year), Anna Camp (1982, turned 42 this year), Lil' Wayne (1982, turned 42 this year), Ella Scott Lynch (1982, turned 42 this year), Zero Kazama (1982, turned 42 this year), Jose Maria De Tavira (1983, turned 41 this year), Avril Lavigne (1984, turned 40 this year), Grace Helbig (1985, turned 39 this year), Arielle Vandenberg (1986, turned 38 this year), Lola Kirke (1990, turned 34 this year), Andrew Hunter (1990, turned 34 this year), Thomas Mann (1991, turned 33 this year), Sam Lerner (1992, turned 32 this year), Daeg Faerch (1995, turned 29 this year), Jenna Ortega (2002, turned 22 this year)

Died on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1977, at the age of 70), Robert Montgomery (1981, at the age of 77), Lloyd Nolan (1985, at the age of 83), Donald O’Connor (2003, at the age of 78), Herbert Lom (2012, at the age of 95), Phyllis Davis (2013, at the age of 73), Jay Robinson (2013, at the age of 83), Sarah Danielle Madison (2014, at the age of 40), John Guillermin (2015, at the age of 89), Hugh Hefner (2017, at the age of 91), Joseph Wilson (2019, at the age of 69), Linda Porter (2019, at the age of 86), Rob Garrison (2019, at the age of 59), Catherine Lachens (2023, at the age of 78), Maggie Smith (2024, at the age of 89), Warren Wilson (2024, at the age of 89)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.