On This Day - February 23

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 23.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther Friday $28,789,877 $700,059,566
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Saturday $22,289,305 $160,799,505
2008 Vantage Point Saturday $9,940,407 $72,266,306
2014 The Lego Movie Sunday $9,550,587 $257,784,718
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog Sunday $7,871,248 $146,066,470
2013 Identity Thief Saturday $6,668,780 $134,506,920
2020 The Call of the Wild Sunday $6,616,300 $62,342,368
2008 The Spiderwick Chronicles Saturday $6,042,362 $71,195,053
2007 Ghost Rider Friday $5,895,703 $115,802,596
2007 The Number 23 Friday $5,800,000 $35,193,167

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 23.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2007 The Number 23 Friday $5,800,000 $35,193,167
2024 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—To the Hashira Training (鬼滅の刃 柱稽古編) Friday $5,602,987 $17,657,658
2018 Game Night Friday $5,596,003 $69,179,066
2007 Reno 911!: Miami Friday $4,099,371 $20,342,161
2018 Annihilation Friday $3,866,815 $32,732,301
2024 Ordinary Angels Friday $2,327,954 $19,174,421
2001 3000 Miles to Graceland Friday $2,185,000 $15,738,632
2017 Is Genesis History? Thursday $1,712,472 $2,570,355
2007 Amazing Grace Friday $1,400,000 $21,214,987
2007 The Astronaut Farmer Friday $1,368,337 $11,003,643

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 23.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Black Panther $111,658,835 $700,059,566
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World $55,022,245 $160,799,505
2014 The Lego Movie $31,305,359 $257,784,718
2020 Sonic The Hedgehog $26,192,294 $146,066,470
2020 The Call of the Wild $24,791,624 $62,342,368
2008 Vantage Point $22,874,936 $72,266,306
1997 Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back $21,975,993 $291,738,960
2007 Ghost Rider $20,067,443 $115,802,596
2003 Daredevil $18,092,309 $102,543,518
2003 Old School $17,453,216 $75,155,000

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Victor Fleming (1889, died on January 6, 1949 at the age of 59), Norman Taurog (1899, died on April 7, 1981 at the age of 82), Terence Fisher (1904, died on June 18, 1980 at the age of 76), Jon Hall (1915, died on December 13, 1979 at the age of 64), Claude Sautet (1924, died on July 22, 2000 at the age of 76), Dorothy Steel (1926, died on October 15, 2021 at the age of 95), Joseph Koo (1931, died on January 3, 2023 at the age of 91), Majel Barrett (1932, died on December 18, 2008 at the age of 76), Federico Luppi (1936, died on October 20, 2017 at the age of 81), Paul Morrissey (1938, died on October 28, 2024 at the age of 86), Jiri Menzel (1938, died on September 5, 2020 at the age of 82), Alan Ford (1938, turned 86 this year), Denis Arndt (1939, turned 85 this year), Peter Fonda (1940, died on August 16, 2019 at the age of 79), George Gerdes (1948, died on January 1, 2021 at the age of 72), Mary Pat Gleason (1950, died on June 2, 2020 at the age of 70), Patricia Richardson (1951, turned 73 this year), Kenny Bee (1953, turned 71 this year), Howard Jones (1955, turned 69 this year), David Warshofsky (1961, turned 63 this year), Nigel Whitmey (1963, turned 61 this year), Ronan Vibert (1964, died on December 22, 2022 at the age of 58), Marni Nixon (1965, died on July 24, 2016 at the age of 51), Veronica Webb (1965, turned 59 this year), Marc Price (1968, turned 56 this year), Niecy Nash (1970, turned 54 this year), Marie-Josee Croze (1970, turned 54 this year), Callan Mulvey (1975, turned 49 this year), Robert Lopez (1975, turned 49 this year), Kelly Macdonald (1976, turned 48 this year), Lorne Balfe (1976, turned 48 this year), Kris Lemche (1978, turned 46 this year), Josh Gad (1981, turned 43 this year), Inna Korobkina (1981, turned 43 this year), Adam Hann-Byrd (1982, turned 42 this year), Emily Blunt (1983, turned 41 this year), Aziz Ansari (1983, turned 41 this year), Emily Cox (1985, turned 39 this year), Samara Weaving (1992, turned 32 this year), Dakota Fanning (1994, turned 30 this year), James Paxton (1994, turned 30 this year), Cameron Palatas (1994, turned 30 this year), Christian Martyn (2000, turned 24 this year), Emilia Jones (2002, turned 22 this year)

Died on this day in history: Stan Laurel (1965, at the age of 74), Esmond Knight (1987, at the age of 80), Philip Terry (1993, at the age of 83), Robert Enrico (2001, at the age of 69), James Colby (2018, at the age of 56), Stanley Donen (2019, at the age of 94), Don Brady (2019, at the age of 85), Katherine Helmond (2019, at the age of 89), John Motson (2023, at the age of 77), Chris Gauthier (2024, at the age of 48)

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