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, turns 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, turns 85 this year), Tom O’Connor (1939, turns 85 this year), Sally Kirkland (1941, turns 83 this year), David Ogden Stiers (1942, died on March 3, 2018 at the age of 75), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945, turns 79 this year), Stephen Rea (1946, turns 78 this year), Michael Kitchen (1948, turns 76 this year), John Candy (1950, died on March 4, 1994 at the age of 43), Joe West (1952, turns 72 this year), Lynda Goodfriend (1953, turns 71 this year), Ken Wahl (1954, turns 70 this year), Brian Stokes Mitchell (1957, turns 67 this year), Michael DeLorenzo (1959, turns 65 this year), Arnaud Desplechin (1960, turns 64 this year), Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961, turns 63 this year), Peter Jackson (1961, turns 63 this year), Rob Schneider (1963, turns 61 this year), Dermot Mulroney (1963, turns 61 this year), Sanjeev Bhaskar (1963, turns 61 this year), Mike O'Malley (1966, turns 58 this year), Adam Horovitz (1966, turns 58 this year), Adam Schlesinger (1967, died on March 31, 2020 at the age of 52), Nolan North (1970, turns 54 this year), Irina Pantaeva (1971, turns 53 this year), Christopher Bevins (1973, turns 51 this year), Ruben Fleischer (1974, turns 50 this year), David Dencik (1974, turns 50 this year), Johnny Whitworth (1975, turns 49 this year), Keith Jardine (1975, turns 49 this year), Piper Perabo (1976, turns 48 this year), Brian Hallisay (1978, turns 46 this year), Erica Cerra (1979, turns 45 this year), Eddie Kaye Thomas (1980, turns 44 this year), Samaire Armstrong (1980, turns 44 this year), Justin Chatwin (1982, turns 42 this year), Kether Donohue (1985, turns 39 this year), Jordan-Claire Green (1991, turns 33 this year), Vanessa Marano (1992, turns 32 this year), Letitia Wright (1993, turns 31 this year), Sydney Park (1997, turns 27 this year), Danielle Rose Russell (1999, turns 25 this year), Willow Smith (2000, turns 24 this year), Dixie Egerickx (2005, turns 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)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.