On This Day - January 1

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 1.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2016 Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens Friday $34,394,152 $936,662,225
2010 Avatar Friday $25,274,008 $785,221,649
2023 Avatar: The Way of Water Sunday $24,519,161 $684,075,767
2022 Spider-Man: No Way Home Saturday $23,112,936 $814,115,070
2005 Meet the Fockers Saturday $18,271,940 $279,167,575
2020 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Wednesday $17,076,472 $515,202,542
2017 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Sunday $16,751,857 $533,539,991
2019 Aquaman Tuesday $16,377,779 $335,061,807
2018 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Monday $16,222,389 $404,508,916
2010 Sherlock Holmes Friday $14,889,882 $209,028,679

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 1.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2021 Shadow in the Cloud Friday $16,681 $156,932
2016 Omohide poro poro (おもひでぽろぽろ) Friday $6,769 $453,241

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 1.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2016 Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens $90,241,673 $936,662,225
2010 Avatar $68,490,688 $785,221,649
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water $67,409,155 $684,075,767
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home $56,023,590 $814,115,070
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $49,609,002 $533,539,991
2016 Sing $42,896,330 $270,329,045
2004 Meet the Fockers $41,741,785 $279,167,575
2010 Sherlock Holmes $36,612,481 $209,028,679
2010 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel $35,189,653 $219,614,612
2011 Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol $29,421,879 $209,397,903

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Charles Bickford (1889, died on November 9, 1967 at the age of 78), Dana Andrews (1909, died on December 17, 1992 at the age of 83), Basil Dearden (1911, died on March 23, 1971 at the age of 60), J.D. Salinger (1919, died on January 27, 2010 at the age of 91), Kenne Fant (1923, died on May 29, 2016 at the age of 93), Matthew Beard (1925, died on January 8, 1981 at the age of 56), Ernest Tidyman (1928, died on July 14, 1984 at the age of 56), Frederick Wiseman (1930, turned 94 this year), Jacqueline Scott (1932, died on July 23, 2020 at the age of 88), Abraham Stavans (1933, died on March 5, 2019 at the age of 86), Suzy Kendall (1937, turned 87 this year), Frank Langella (1938, turned 86 this year), Michele Mercier (1939, turned 85 this year), Don Novello (1943, turned 81 this year), Diahnne Abbott (1945, turned 79 this year), Rick Hurst (1946, turned 78 this year), Deepa Mehta (1950, turned 74 this year), Nana Patekar (1951, turned 73 this year), Stephanie Faracy (1952, turned 72 this year), Brian Pettifer (1953, turned 71 this year), Richard Edson (1954, turned 70 this year), Sheila McCarthy (1956, turned 68 this year), Madolyn Smith Osborne (1957, turned 67 this year), Meagen Fay (1957, turned 67 this year), Carlos Gomez (1962, turned 62 this year), Dedee Pfeiffer (1964, turned 60 this year), Jennifer Hale (1965, turned 59 this year), Sharon Small (1967, turned 57 this year), Verne Troyer (1969, died on April 21, 2018 at the age of 49), Morris Chestnut (1969, turned 55 this year), Mr. Lawrence (1969, turned 55 this year), Gabriel Jarret (1970, turned 54 this year), Danny Lloyd (1973, turned 51 this year), Sam Spruell (1977, turned 47 this year), Vidya Balan (1979, turned 45 this year), David Gyasi (1980, turned 44 this year), Jonas Armstrong (1981, turned 43 this year), Dana DeLorenzo (1983, turned 41 this year), Hannah Barefoot (1984, turned 40 this year), Juliana Harkavy (1985, turned 39 this year), Colin Morgan (1986, turned 38 this year), Anna Brewster (1986, turned 38 this year), Gia Coppola (1987, turned 37 this year), Adele Haenel (1989, turned 35 this year), Andrew Simpson (1989, turned 35 this year), Stacy Martin (1991, turned 33 this year), Lara Robinson (1998, turned 26 this year), Diamond White (1999, turned 25 this year), Angourie Rice (2001, turned 23 this year), Ekaterina Samsonov (2003, turned 21 this year)

Died on this day in history: Margaret Sullavan (1960, at the age of 50), Barton MacLane (1969, at the age of 66), Maurice Chevalier (1972, at the age of 83), Victor Buono (1982, at the age of 43), Cesar Romero (1994, at the age of 86), Ray Walston (2001, at the age of 86), Julia Phillips (2002, at the age of 57), Royce D. Applegate (2003, at the age of 63), Edmund Purdom (2009, at the age of 84), Juanita Moore (2014, at the age of 99), Donna Douglas (2015, at the age of 82), Vilmos Zsigmond (2016, at the age of 85), Joe Stapleton (2019, at the age of 56), David Stern (2020, at the age of 77), George Gerdes (2021, at the age of 72), Max Julien (2022, at the age of 88), Mickey Cottrell (2024, at the age of 79)

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