On This Day - October 31

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 31.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2009 Michael Jackson's This Is It Saturday $7,075,741 $72,091,016
2009 Paranormal Activity Saturday $6,576,554 $107,918,810
2010 Saw 3D Sunday $5,681,091 $45,710,178
2018 Halloween Wednesday $5,547,305 $159,366,015
2004 Saw Sunday $5,392,153 $55,968,727
2004 The Grudge Sunday $5,286,361 $110,359,362
2023 Five Nights at Freddy’s Tuesday $5,249,255 $137,275,620
2004 Ray Sunday $4,964,685 $75,305,995
2003 Scary Movie 3 Friday $4,670,000 $110,000,082
2015 The Martian Saturday $4,564,809 $228,433,663

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 31.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2014 Nightcrawler Friday $3,200,000 $32,381,218
2008 Zack and Miri Make a Porno Friday $2,194,513 $31,457,946
2008 The Haunting of Molly Hartley Friday $1,788,263 $13,442,412
1997 Red Corner Friday $1,760,000 $22,442,815
2015 The Met: Live in HD - Tannhauser Saturday $1,150,000 $1,150,000
2014 Before I Go to Sleep Friday $571,469 $3,242,457
1997 Switchback Friday $555,000 $6,504,442
2017 Keep Watching Tuesday $94,178 $94,178
2000 Mercy Streets Tuesday $33,814 $173,599
2014 Horns Friday $31,100 $164,480

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 31.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2010 Saw 3D $24,230,123 $45,710,178
2009 Michael Jackson's This Is It $23,234,394 $72,091,016
2004 The Grudge $21,817,598 $110,359,362
2004 Ray $20,039,730 $75,305,995
2003 Scary Movie 3 $20,017,468 $110,000,082
2003 Brother Bear $19,404,492 $85,336,277
2004 Saw $18,276,468 $55,968,727
2010 Paranormal Activity 2 $16,508,107 $84,752,907
2009 Paranormal Activity $16,387,327 $107,918,810
1999 House on Haunted Hill $15,946,032 $40,846,082

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Dale Evans (1912, died on February 7, 2001 at the age of 88), Barbara Bel Geddes (1922, died on August 8, 2005 at the age of 82), Lee Grant (1925, turned 99 this year), Dianne Foster (1928, died on July 27, 2019 at the age of 90), Bud Spencer (1929, died on June 27, 2016 at the age of 86), April Ferry (1932, died on January 11, 2024 at the age of 91), Richard Bradford (1934, died on March 22, 2016 at the age of 81), Suzanne Shepherd (1934, died on November 17, 2023 at the age of 89), Ron Rifkin (1939, turned 85 this year), Tom O’Connor (1939, turned 85 this year), Sally Kirkland (1941, turned 83 this year), David Ogden Stiers (1942, died on March 3, 2018 at the age of 75), Pierre William Glenn (1943, died on September 24, 2024 at the age of 80), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945, turned 79 this year), Stephen Rea (1946, turned 78 this year), Michael Kitchen (1948, turned 76 this year), John Candy (1950, died on March 4, 1994 at the age of 43), Joe West (1952, turned 72 this year), Lynda Goodfriend (1953, turned 71 this year), Ken Wahl (1954, turned 70 this year), Brian Stokes Mitchell (1957, turned 67 this year), Michael DeLorenzo (1959, turned 65 this year), Arnaud Desplechin (1960, turned 64 this year), Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961, turned 63 this year), Peter Jackson (1961, turned 63 this year), Rob Schneider (1963, turned 61 this year), Dermot Mulroney (1963, turned 61 this year), Sanjeev Bhaskar (1963, turned 61 this year), Mike O'Malley (1966, turned 58 this year), Adam Horovitz (1966, turned 58 this year), Adam Schlesinger (1967, died on March 31, 2020 at the age of 52), Nolan North (1970, turned 54 this year), Irina Pantaeva (1971, turned 53 this year), Christopher Bevins (1973, turned 51 this year), Ruben Fleischer (1974, turned 50 this year), David Dencik (1974, turned 50 this year), Johnny Whitworth (1975, turned 49 this year), Keith Jardine (1975, turned 49 this year), Piper Perabo (1976, turned 48 this year), Brian Hallisay (1978, turned 46 this year), Erica Cerra (1979, turned 45 this year), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980, turned 44 this year), Samaire Armstrong (1980, turned 44 this year), Justin Chatwin (1982, turned 42 this year), Kether Donohue (1985, turned 39 this year), Jordan-Claire Green (1991, turned 33 this year), Vanessa Marano (1992, turned 32 this year), Letitia Wright (1993, turned 31 this year), Sydney Park (1997, turned 27 this year), Danielle Rose Russell (1999, turned 25 this year), Willow Smith (2000, turned 24 this year), Dixie Egerickx (2005, turned 19 this year)

Died on this day in history: Henry Daniell (1963, at the age of 69), Rita Johnson (1965, at the age of 52), Joseph Calleia (1975, at the age of 78), John Houseman (1988, at the age of 86), River Phoenix (1993, at the age of 23), Federico Fellini (1993, at the age of 73), Rosalind Cash (1995, at the age of 56), Marcel Carne (1996, at the age of 90), Raf Vallone (2002, at the age of 86), Gregg Palmer (2015, at the age of 88), Andrew Duncan (2022, at the age of 88), Andrew Prine (2022, at the age of 86), Tyler Christopher (2023, at the age of 50), Stephanie Collie (2024, at the age of 60)

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