On This Day - December 20
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Friday | $89,615,288 | $515,202,542 |
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Sunday | $60,553,189 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Monday | $37,138,318 | $814,115,070 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Saturday | $27,492,053 | $379,021,990 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Sunday | $24,744,346 | $785,221,649 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Saturday | $21,397,014 | $255,119,788 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Friday | $19,224,340 | $342,548,984 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Tuesday | $18,288,904 | $684,075,767 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Tuesday | $17,582,978 | $533,539,991 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Wednesday | $16,889,863 | $620,181,382 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Friday | $89,615,288 | $515,202,542 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Wednesday | $7,208,112 | $404,508,916 |
| 2006 | Rocky Balboa | Wednesday | $6,204,105 | $70,269,899 |
| 2002 | Two Weeks Notice | Friday | $4,664,000 | $93,354,918 |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Friday | $2,872,500 | $77,730,500 |
| 2019 | Cats | Friday | $2,599,660 | $27,166,770 |
| 2017 | The Greatest Showman | Wednesday | $2,451,071 | $174,340,174 |
| 2013 | Walking with Dinosaurs | Friday | $2,164,499 | $36,076,121 |
| 2002 | The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Friday | $1,677,000 | $40,108,697 |
| 2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima | Wednesday | $20,522 | $13,756,082 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was December 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $247,966,675 | $936,662,225 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | $177,383,864 | $515,202,542 |
| 2009 | Avatar | $77,025,481 | $785,221,649 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $72,629,713 | $379,021,990 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $62,007,528 | $342,548,984 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $54,724,334 | $255,119,788 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | $31,505,278 | $258,241,522 |
| 1997 | Titanic | $28,638,131 | $674,460,013 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | $26,505,147 | $316,831,246 |
| 2013 | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | $26,232,425 | $127,413,176 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Mufasa: The Lion King, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Homestead
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charley Grapewin (1869, died on February 2, 1956 at the age of 86), Irene Dunne (1898, died on September 4, 1990 at the age of 91), Albert Dekker (1905, died on May 5, 1968 at the age of 62), Audrey Totter (1917, died on December 12, 2013 at the age of 95), George Roy Hill (1922, died on December 27, 2002 at the age of 80), Christopher Knopf (1927, died on February 13, 2019 at the age of 91), John Hillerman (1932, died on November 9, 2017 at the age of 84), Kathryn Joosten (1939, died on June 2, 2012 at the age of 72), Angel Tompkins (1942, turns 82 this year), Jimmie F. Skaggs (1944, died on July 6, 2004 at the age of 59), Dick Wolf (1946, turns 78 this year), John Spencer (1946, died on December 16, 2005 at the age of 58), Leigh Hamilton (1949, died on September 8, 2012 at the age of 62), Jenny Agutter (1952, turns 72 this year), Michael Badalucco (1954, turns 70 this year), David Breashears (1955, died on March 14, 2024 at the age of 68), Blanche Baker (1956, turns 68 this year), Joyce Hyser (1957, turns 67 this year), Kim Ki-Duk (1960, died on December 11, 2020 at the age of 59), Joel Gretsch (1963, turns 61 this year), Iqbal Theba (1963, turns 61 this year), Robert Gustafsson (1964, turns 60 this year), Robert Cavanah (1965, turns 59 this year), Chris Robinson (1966, turns 58 this year), Joe Cornish (1968, turns 56 this year), Eduardo Sanchez (1968, turns 56 this year), Nadia Fares (1968, turns 56 this year), Brian O'Halloran (1969, turns 55 this year), Todd Phillips (1970, turns 54 this year), Nicole de Boer (1970, turns 54 this year), Alexandre Willaume (1972, turns 52 this year), Ramon Rodriguez (1979, turns 45 this year), Melanie Scrofano (1981, turns 43 this year), Jonah Hill (1983, turns 41 this year), Jo Jo (1990, turns 34 this year), Joanna "JoJo" Levesque (1990, turns 34 this year), Jillian Rose Reed (1991, turns 33 this year), Colin Woodell (1991, turns 33 this year), Azie Tesfai (1992, turns 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: C. Aubrey Smith (1948, at the age of 85), Peter Brocco (1992, at the age of 89), Madge Sinclair (1995, at the age of 57), Carl Sagan (1996, at the age of 62), Irving Rapper (1999, at the age of 101), Jeanne Carmen (2007, at the age of 77), Robert Mulligan (2008, at the age of 83), Brittany Murphy (2009, at the age of 32), Angela McEwan (2015, at the age of 81), Michèle Morgan (2016, at the age of 96), Michèle Morgan (2016, at the age of 96), Donald Moffat (2018, at the age of 87), Nicete Bruno (2020, at the age of 87), Quinn K. Redeker (2022, at the age of 86)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.