On This Day - August 14
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 14.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | Friday | $24,124,665 | $161,197,785 |
| 2009 | District 9 | Friday | $14,163,902 | $115,646,235 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Sunday | $12,901,642 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | Saturday | $12,614,277 | $80,281,096 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | Saturday | $11,899,925 | $103,068,524 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | Saturday | $10,357,786 | $121,626,598 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | Saturday | $10,025,000 | $293,506,292 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Sunday | $9,354,930 | $97,670,358 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Sunday | $8,796,455 | $176,760,185 |
| 2004 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Saturday | $8,493,888 | $95,149,435 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 14.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | Friday | $24,124,665 | $161,197,785 |
| 2009 | District 9 | Friday | $14,163,902 | $115,646,235 |
| 2009 | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Friday | $7,720,103 | $63,414,846 |
| 2015 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Friday | $4,804,022 | $45,445,109 |
| 1998 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Friday | $4,010,000 | $37,672,944 |
| 1998 | The Avengers | Friday | $3,770,000 | $23,385,416 |
| 2009 | The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard | Friday | $2,070,193 | $15,122,676 |
| 2009 | Ponyo (崖の上のポニョ) | Friday | $1,174,539 | $15,090,399 |
| 2009 | Bandslam | Friday | $896,354 | $5,210,988 |
| 2020 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | Friday | $338,084 | $4,810,790 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 14.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Straight Outta Compton | $60,200,180 | $161,197,785 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $43,536,013 | $325,100,054 |
| 2004 | AVP: Alien Vs. Predator | $38,291,056 | $80,281,096 |
| 2009 | District 9 | $37,354,308 | $115,646,235 |
| 2010 | The Expendables | $34,825,135 | $103,068,524 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | $34,263,534 | $97,670,358 |
| 2021 | Free Guy | $28,365,416 | $121,626,598 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $27,832,307 | $176,760,185 |
| 2011 | The Help | $26,044,590 | $169,705,587 |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | $25,764,991 | $293,506,292 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Audrey Geisel (1921, died on December 19, 2018 at the age of 97), Alice Ghostley (1923, died on September 21, 2007 at the age of 84), Buddy Greco (1926, died on January 10, 2017 at the age of 90), Lina Wertmuller (1928, died on December 9, 2021 at the age of 93), Thomas Meehan (1929, died on August 21, 2017 at the age of 88), William Kittredge (1932, died on December 4, 2020 at the age of 88), Vernon Dobtcheff (1934, turned 90 this year), David Crosby (1941, died on January 19, 2023 at the age of 81), Steve Martin (1945, turned 79 this year), Wim Wenders (1945, turned 79 this year), Brenda Benet (1945, turned 79 this year), Susan Saint James (1946, turned 78 this year), Antonio Fargas (1946, turned 78 this year), Joseph Marcell (1948, turned 76 this year), Lou Wagner (1948, turned 76 this year), Jim Wynorski (1950, turned 74 this year), Carl Lumbly (1951, turned 73 this year), James Horner (1953, died on June 22, 2015 at the age of 61), Felice Farina (1954, died on September 18, 2023 at the age of 69), Jackée Harry (1956, turned 68 this year), Jose Coronado (1957, turned 67 this year), Marcia Gay Harden (1959, turned 65 this year), Russell Hodgkinson (1959, turned 65 this year), Lucinda Dickey (1960, turned 64 this year), Sarah Brightman (1960, turned 64 this year), Steve Reevis (1962, died on December 7, 2017 at the age of 55), Emmanuelle Beart (1963, turned 61 this year), Andrew Kevin Walker (1964, turned 60 this year), Halle Berry (1966, turned 58 this year), Catherine Bell (1968, turned 56 this year), Adrian Lester (1968, turned 56 this year), Sylvia Jefferies (1969, turned 55 this year), Leah Purcell (1970, turned 54 this year), Peter Franzen (1971, turned 53 this year), Scott Michael Campbell (1971, turned 53 this year), Raoul Bova (1971, turned 53 this year), Misty Rosas (1973, turned 51 this year), Christopher Gorham (1974, turned 50 this year), Tomer Sisley (1974, turned 50 this year), Frankie Ingrassia (1978, turned 46 this year), Sandra McCoy (1979, turned 45 this year), Adrienne C. Moore (1980, turned 44 this year), Mila Kunis (1983, turned 41 this year), James Buckley (1987, turned 37 this year), Cassi Thomson (1993, turned 31 this year), Brianna Hildebrand (1996, turned 28 this year), Marsai Martin (2004, turned 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Patrick Magee (1982, at the age of 60), Gale Sondergaard (1985, at the age of 86), Bruno Kirby (2006, at the age of 57), Abbey Lincoln (2010, at the age of 80), Ron Palillo (2012, at the age of 63), Fyvush Finkel (2016, at the age of 93), Andrzej Blumenfeld (2017, at the age of 66), Linda Manz (2020, at the age of 58), Piera Degli Esposti (2021, at the age of 83), Marshall Napier (2022, at the age of 83), Gena Rowlands (2024, at the age of 94), Denise Gagnon (2024, at the age of 87)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.