On This Day - August 12
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Friday | $13,510,615 | $97,670,358 |
| 2001 | American Pie 2 | Sunday | $13,477,000 | $145,096,820 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Saturday | $13,178,714 | $636,238,421 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Friday | $13,103,794 | $325,100,054 |
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | Sunday | $12,894,000 | $140,125,968 |
| 2018 | The Meg | Sunday | $12,520,931 | $145,443,742 |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation | Saturday | $11,677,885 | $102,092,201 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Sunday | $10,016,000 | $226,164,286 |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Sunday | $9,737,000 | $113,203,870 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Sunday | $9,251,865 | $227,471,070 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sausage Party | Friday | $13,510,615 | $97,670,358 |
| 2011 | Final Destination 5 | Friday | $7,339,561 | $42,587,643 |
| 2005 | Four Brothers | Friday | $6,980,721 | $74,494,381 |
| 2016 | Pete’s Dragon | Friday | $6,952,488 | $76,233,151 |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key | Friday | $5,957,650 | $47,907,715 |
| 2011 | 30 Minutes or Less | Friday | $4,845,247 | $37,053,924 |
| 2005 | Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | Friday | $3,480,518 | $22,400,154 |
| 2011 | Glee: The 3D Concert Movie | Friday | $2,734,591 | $11,862,398 |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Friday | $2,082,315 | $27,383,770 |
| 2005 | The Great Raid | Friday | $1,100,000 | $10,166,502 |
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 12.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | $49,100,158 | $140,125,968 |
| 2018 | The Meg | $45,402,195 | $145,443,742 |
| 2001 | American Pie 2 | $45,117,985 | $145,096,820 |
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $43,536,013 | $325,100,054 |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | $38,142,825 | $113,203,870 |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation | $35,006,404 | $102,092,201 |
| 2016 | Sausage Party | $34,263,534 | $97,670,358 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $33,833,294 | $636,238,421 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | $33,117,312 | $226,164,286 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | $32,879,125 | $227,471,070 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Cecil B. DeMille (1881, died on January 21, 1959 at the age of 77), Oscar Homolka (1898, died on January 28, 1978 at the age of 79), Jane Wyatt (1910, died on October 20, 2006 at the age of 96), Ralph Nelson (1916, died on December 21, 1987 at the age of 71), Marjorie Reynolds (1917, died on February 1, 1997 at the age of 79), Fulton Mackay (1922, turns 102 this year), John Derek (1926, died on May 22, 1998 at the age of 71), Dan Curtis (1927, died on March 27, 2006 at the age of 78), John Bluthal (1929, died on November 15, 2018 at the age of 89), William Goldman (1931, died on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87), John Cazale (1935, died on March 12, 1978 at the age of 42), George Hamilton (1939, turns 85 this year), Oliver Ford Davies (1939, turns 85 this year), Tony Allen (1940, died on April 30, 2020 at the age of 79), Dana Ivey (1941, turns 83 this year), L.M. Kit Carson (1941, died on October 20, 2014 at the age of 73), Bruce Solomon (1943, turns 81 this year), Vic Polizos (1947, turns 77 this year), Mark Knopfler (1949, turns 75 this year), Jim Beaver (1950, turns 74 this year), Iris Berben (1950, turns 74 this year), Andrzej Blumenfeld (1951, died on August 14, 2017 at the age of 66), Ronald Guttman (1952, turns 72 this year), Kaige Chen (1952, turns 72 this year), Selina Cadell (1953, turns 71 this year), Sam J. Jones (1954, turns 70 this year), Ray Abruzzo (1954, turns 70 this year), Bruce Greenwood (1956, turns 68 this year), Amanda Redman (1957, turns 67 this year), Isaach de Bankolé (1957, turns 67 this year), Peter Krause (1965, turns 59 this year), James DuMont (1965, turns 59 this year), Sharon D. Clarke (1966, turns 58 this year), Michael Dobson (1966, turns 58 this year), Brent Sexton (1967, turns 57 this year), Katherine Kendall (1969, turns 55 this year), Charles Mesure (1970, turns 54 this year), Michael Ian Black (1971, turns 53 this year), Yvette Nicole Brown (1971, turns 53 this year), Rebecca Gayheart (1971, turns 53 this year), Casey Affleck (1975, turns 49 this year), Stephanie Vogt (1975, turns 49 this year), Carter Bays (1975, turns 49 this year), Natalie Mendoza (1978, turns 46 this year), Rebekah Chaney (1978, turns 46 this year), Maggie Lawson (1980, turns 44 this year), Dominique Swain (1980, turns 44 this year), Steve Talley (1981, turns 43 this year), Erin Bethea (1982, turns 42 this year), Elisabetta Fantone (1982, turns 42 this year), Jade Tailor (1985, turns 39 this year), Electra Avellan (1986, turns 38 this year), Elise Avellan (1986, turns 38 this year), Leah Pipes (1988, turns 36 this year), Lakeith Lee Stanfield (1991, turns 33 this year), Cara Delevingne (1992, turns 32 this year), Imani Hakim (1993, turns 31 this year), Hannah Quinlivan (1993, turns 31 this year), Bex Taylor Klaus (1994, turns 30 this year), Elise Luthman (1999, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Henry Fonda (1982, at the age of 77), Loretta Young (2000, at the age of 87), Lauren Bacall (2014, at the age of 89), Anne Heche (2022, at the age of 53), Wolfgang Petersen (2022, at the age of 81)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.