The Numbers - On This Day - September 26
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Saturday | $20,751,428 | $169,700,110 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | Friday | $12,495,441 | $101,530,738 |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Saturday | $11,184,070 | $124,870,275 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Friday | $9,800,184 | $101,440,743 |
| 1998 | Rush Hour | Saturday | $8,936,000 | $141,186,864 |
| 2015 | The Intern | Saturday | $7,350,542 | $75,764,672 |
| 2015 | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials | Saturday | $6,545,738 | $81,697,192 |
| 2003 | The Rundown | Friday | $6,356,000 | $47,641,743 |
| 2009 | Surrogates | Saturday | $6,106,226 | $38,577,772 |
| 2015 | Everest | Saturday | $5,877,105 | $43,482,270 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Equalizer | Friday | $12,495,441 | $101,530,738 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Friday | $9,800,184 | $101,440,743 |
| 2003 | The Rundown | Friday | $6,356,000 | $47,641,743 |
| 2014 | The Boxtrolls | Friday | $4,928,333 | $50,837,305 |
| 2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | Friday | $4,731,824 | $41,850,659 |
| 1997 | The Peacemaker | Friday | $3,989,408 | $41,263,140 |
| 1997 | Soul Food | Friday | $3,367,881 | $43,492,389 |
| 2003 | Under the Tuscan Sun | Friday | $3,030,000 | $43,601,508 |
| 1997 | The Edge | Friday | $2,324,319 | $27,799,255 |
| 2008 | Fireproof | Friday | $2,258,000 | $33,456,317 |
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 26.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Hotel Transylvania 2 | $48,464,322 | $169,700,110 |
| 2014 | The Equalizer | $34,137,828 | $101,530,738 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | $29,150,721 | $101,440,743 |
| 2009 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | $25,038,803 | $124,870,275 |
| 1999 | Double Jeopardy | $23,162,542 | $116,735,231 |
| 1998 | Rush Hour | $21,202,929 | $141,186,864 |
| 2004 | The Forgotten | $21,022,111 | $66,711,892 |
| 2010 | Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps | $19,011,188 | $52,474,616 |
| 2003 | The Rundown | $18,533,765 | $47,641,743 |
| 2015 | The Intern | $17,728,313 | $75,764,672 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, Untitled Saw XI, The Bride
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Edmund Gwenn (1877, died on September 6, 1959 at the age of 81), Gladys Brockwell (1894, died on July 2, 1929 at the age of 34), George Raft (1901, died on November 24, 1980 at the age of 79), Donald Cook (1901, turns 124 this year), Jack LaLanne (1914, died on January 23, 2011 at the age of 96), Patrick O'Neal (1927, died on September 9, 1994 at the age of 66), Philip Bosco (1930, died on December 3, 2018 at the age of 88), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Richard Herd (1932, died on May 26, 2020 at the age of 87), Donna Douglas (1932, died on January 1, 2015 at the age of 82), Lou Myers (1935, turns 90 this year), Jerry Weintraub (1937, died on July 6, 2015 at the age of 77), Carl Aldana (1938, died on February 8, 2019 at the age of 80), Jonathan Goldsmith (1938, turns 87 this year), Ricky Tomlinson (1939, turns 86 this year), Michael Blodgett (1939, turns 86 this year), Martine Beswick (1941, turns 84 this year), Bryan Ferry (1945, turns 80 this year), Mary Beth Hurt (1946, turns 79 this year), Togo Igawa (1946, turns 79 this year), Olivia Newton-John (1948, died on August 8, 2022 at the age of 73), James Keane (1952, turns 73 this year), Leslie Hamilton Gearren (1956, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 63), Linda Hamilton (1956, turns 69 this year), Michael Dweck (1957, turns 68 this year), Andre Harrell (1960, died on May 7, 2020 at the age of 59), Cindy Herron (1961, turns 64 this year), Jacky Wu (1962, turns 63 this year), Chunky Pandey (1962, turns 63 this year), Patrick Bristow (1962, turns 63 this year), Lawrence Leritz (1962, turns 63 this year), Lysette Anthony (1963, turns 62 this year), Jillian Barberie (1966, turns 59 this year), Elizabeth Saunders (1966, turns 59 this year), David Millbern (1967, turns 58 this year), James Caviezel (1968, turns 57 this year), Ben Shenkman (1968, turns 57 this year), David Slade (1969, turns 56 this year), Sheri Moon Zombie (1970, turns 55 this year), Melanie Paxson (1972, turns 53 this year), Caitlin Keats (1972, turns 53 this year), Julienne Davis (1973, turns 52 this year), Maria Bonnevie (1973, turns 52 this year), Fred Raskin (1973, turns 52 this year), Chiara Schoras (1975, turns 50 this year), Jake Paltrow (1975, turns 50 this year), Jacob Tierney (1979, turns 46 this year), Susanne Wuest (1979, turns 46 this year), Mark Famiglietti (1979, turns 46 this year), Christina Milian (1981, turns 44 this year), Serena Williams (1981, turns 44 this year), Zoe Perry (1983, turns 42 this year), Manny Montana (1983, turns 42 this year), Nev Schulman (1984, turns 41 this year), Alaa Safi (1984, turns 41 this year), William Vaughan (1984, turns 41 this year), Talulah Riley (1985, turns 40 this year), Svetlana Ivanova (1985, turns 40 this year), Ashley Leggat (1986, turns 39 this year), Raquel Beaudene (1986, turns 39 this year), Lilly Singh (1988, turns 37 this year), Emma Rigby (1989, turns 36 this year), Alma Jodorowsky (1991, turns 34 this year), Charlotte Spencer (1991, turns 34 this year)
Died on this day in history: Hugh Lofting (1947, at the age of 61), Anna Magnani (1973, at the age of 65), Richard Mulligan (2000, at the age of 67), Paul Newman (2008, at the age of 83), Johnny Lewis (2012, at the age of 28), Herschell Gordon Lewis (2016, at the age of 90), Barry Dennen (2017, at the age of 79), Shoki Mokgapa (2018, at the age of 79), Myron Dewey (2021, at the age of 49), Venetia Stevenson (2022, at the age of 84), Sandra Dorsey (2023, at the age of 83), John Ashton (2024, at the age of 76)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.