On This Day - September 29

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 29.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania Saturday $18,947,063 $148,313,048
2018 Night School Saturday $11,268,050 $77,339,130
2007 The Game Plan Saturday $10,361,769 $90,648,202
2024 The Wild Robot Sunday $10,187,635 $125,717,835
2018 Smallfoot Saturday $9,875,229 $83,240,103
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sunday $9,693,422 $119,793,567
2012 Looper Saturday $8,726,716 $66,486,205
2023 Saw X Friday $7,965,110 $53,607,898
2002 Sweet Home Alabama Sunday $7,823,005 $127,214,072
2001 Don’t Say a Word Saturday $7,450,000 $54,997,476

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 29.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2023 Saw X Friday $7,965,110 $53,607,898
2000 Remember the Titans Friday $6,891,000 $115,719,751
2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie Friday $6,828,084 $65,343,309
2006 Open Season Friday $6,212,884 $85,105,259
2017 American Made Friday $6,168,025 $51,342,000
2023 The Creator Friday $5,629,996 $40,774,679
2006 The Guardian Friday $5,600,000 $55,011,732
2006 School for Scoundrels Friday $2,894,108 $17,807,569
2017 Flatliners Friday $2,128,957 $16,883,115
2017 Til Death Do Us Part Friday $492,644 $3,424,454

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 29.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2012 Hotel Transylvania $42,522,194 $148,313,048
2024 The Wild Robot $35,790,150 $125,717,835
2002 Sweet Home Alabama $35,648,740 $127,214,072
2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 $34,017,930 $119,793,567
2018 Night School $27,257,615 $77,339,130
2006 Open Season $23,624,548 $85,105,259
2018 Smallfoot $23,045,635 $83,240,103
2007 The Game Plan $22,950,971 $90,648,202
2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie $22,764,354 $65,343,309
2000 Remember the Titans $20,905,831 $115,719,751

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Greer Garson (1904, died on April 6, 1996 at the age of 91), Ted de Corsia (1905, died on April 11, 1973 at the age of 67), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912, died on July 30, 2007 at the age of 94), Stanley Kramer (1913, died on February 19, 2001 at the age of 87), Trevor Howard (1913, died on January 7, 1988 at the age of 74), Brenda Marshall (1915, died on July 30, 1992 at the age of 76), Peter Arne (1920, died on August 1, 1983 at the age of 62), Lizabeth Scott (1922, died on January 31, 2015 at the age of 92), Steve Forrest (1925, died on May 18, 2013 at the age of 87), Pete McCloskey (1927, died on May 8, 2024 at the age of 96), Anita Ekberg (1931, died on January 11, 2015 at the age of 83), Eddie Barth (1931, turned 93 this year), Robert Benton (1932, turned 92 this year), Alan Hopgood (1934, died on March 19, 2022 at the age of 87), Mylene Demongeot (1935, turned 89 this year), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935, died on October 28, 2022 at the age of 87), James Frawley (1936, died on January 22, 2019 at the age of 82), Ian McShane (1942, turned 82 this year), Madeline Kahn (1942, died on December 3, 1999 at the age of 57), Donna Corcoran (1942, turned 82 this year), Toni Myers (1943, died on February 18, 2019 at the age of 75), Isla Blair (1944, turned 80 this year), Mike Post (1944, turned 80 this year), Reggie Bannister (1945, turned 79 this year), Martin Ferrero (1947, turned 77 this year), Donovan Scott (1947, turned 77 this year), Bryant Gumbel (1948, turned 76 this year), C.J. Jones (1950, turned 74 this year), Gabor Csupo (1952, turned 72 this year), Miguel Angel Fuentes (1953, turned 71 this year), Mark Mitchell (1954, turned 70 this year), Cindy Morgan (1954, turned 70 this year), Stuart Charno (1956, turned 68 this year), Andrew Dice Clay (1957, turned 67 this year), Karen Young (1958, turned 66 this year), Raymond Thiry (1959, turned 65 this year), Dale Dickey (1961, turned 63 this year), Roger Bart (1962, turned 62 this year), Francis Jue (1963, turned 61 this year), Rune Temte (1965, turned 59 this year), Ben Miles (1966, turned 58 this year), Luke Goss (1968, turned 56 this year), Mindy Burbano (1968, turned 56 this year), Samir Soni (1968, turned 56 this year), Matt Goss (1968, turned 56 this year), Erika Eleniak (1969, turned 55 this year), Natasha Gregson Wagner (1970, turned 54 this year), Russell Peters (1970, turned 54 this year), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970, turned 54 this year), Emily Lloyd (1970, turned 54 this year), Mackenzie Crook (1971, turned 53 this year), Theodore Shapiro (1971, turned 53 this year), Robert Webb (1972, turned 52 this year), Brad Kane (1973, turned 51 this year), Matt Hullum (1974, turned 50 this year), Alexis Cruz (1974, turned 50 this year), Anna Khaja (1974, turned 50 this year), Henriette Steenstrup (1974, turned 50 this year), James Lance (1975, turned 49 this year), Steve Yedlin (1975, turned 49 this year), Jason Hehir (1976, turned 48 this year), Sasha Rionda (1977, turned 47 this year), Nathan West (1978, turned 46 this year), Michael Ford-Fitzgerald (1979, turned 45 this year), Zachary Levi (1980, turned 44 this year), Chrissy Metz (1980, turned 44 this year), Julie R. Ølgaard (1981, turned 43 this year), Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (1982, died on December 13, 2022 at the age of 40), David Del Rio (1987, turned 37 this year), Helene Reingaard Neumann (1987, turned 37 this year), Halsey (1994, turned 30 this year), Marco Ilsø (1994, turned 30 this year), Sasha Lane (1995, turned 29 this year), Anna Jacoby-Heron (1995, turned 29 this year)

Died on this day in history: Edward Everett Horton (1970, at the age of 84), Gordon Douglas (1993, at the age of 85), Gloria Foster (2001, at the age of 67), Lois Maxwell (2007, at the age of 80), Tony Curtis (2010, at the age of 85), Tom Alter (2017, at the age of 67), Helen Reddy (2020, at the age of 78), Mac Davis (2020, at the age of 78)

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