On This Day - November 16
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | Friday | $71,167,839 | $292,324,737 |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Saturday | $34,213,803 | $262,233,381 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Friday | $32,333,203 | $317,871,467 |
| 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Friday | $25,473,261 | $159,555,901 |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Saturday | $16,761,427 | $206,362,140 |
| 2008 | Quantum of Solace | Sunday | $14,690,029 | $169,368,427 |
| 2019 | Ford v. Ferrari | Saturday | $12,409,617 | $117,624,357 |
| 2013 | The Best Man Holiday | Saturday | $12,265,995 | $70,525,195 |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Friday | $12,252,756 | $304,360,277 |
| 2014 | Big Hero 6 | Sunday | $10,274,455 | $222,527,828 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | Friday | $71,167,839 | $292,324,737 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Friday | $32,333,203 | $317,871,467 |
| 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | Friday | $25,473,261 | $159,555,901 |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Friday | $10,005,134 | $82,280,579 |
| 2018 | Instant Family | Friday | $4,535,317 | $67,363,237 |
| 2018 | Widows | Friday | $4,204,512 | $42,402,632 |
| 2007 | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium | Friday | $2,602,698 | $32,061,555 |
| 2007 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Friday | $647,000 | $4,617,608 |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | Friday | $120,770 | $132,092,958 |
| 2018 | Green Book | Friday | $93,036 | $85,080,171 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was November 16.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | $141,067,634 | $292,324,737 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $90,294,621 | $317,871,467 |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | $88,357,488 | $262,233,381 |
| 2008 | Quantum of Solace | $67,528,882 | $169,368,427 |
| 2018 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald | $62,163,104 | $159,555,901 |
| 2012 | Skyfall | $41,104,513 | $304,360,277 |
| 2018 | Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch | $38,587,130 | $272,699,130 |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | $36,586,016 | $206,362,140 |
| 2014 | Dumb and Dumber To | $36,111,775 | $86,208,010 |
| 2008 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | $35,017,301 | $180,174,880 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Burgess Meredith (1907, died on September 9, 1997 at the age of 89), Patricia Barry (1922, died on October 11, 2016 at the age of 93), Royal Dano (1922, died on May 15, 1994 at the age of 71), Remo Remotti (1924, died on June 21, 2015 at the age of 90), Clu Gulager (1928, died on August 5, 2022 at the age of 93), Steve Railsback (1945, turns 79 this year), David Leisure (1950, turns 74 this year), Miguel Sandoval (1951, turns 73 this year), Dan Shor (1956, turns 68 this year), Marg Helgenberger (1958, turns 66 this year), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964, turns 60 this year), Mark Benton (1965, turns 59 this year), Lisa Bonet (1967, turns 57 this year), James Parks (1968, turns 56 this year), Martha Plimpton (1970, turns 54 this year), Missi Pyle (1972, turns 52 this year), Michael Irby (1972, turns 52 this year), Ona Grauer (1975, turns 49 this year), Demore Barnes (1976, turns 48 this year), Kristen Harris (1976, turns 48 this year), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977, turns 47 this year), Mauricio Ochmann (1977, turns 47 this year), Michael Faustino (1979, turns 45 this year), Alexa Havins (1980, turns 44 this year), Kimberly J. Brown (1984, turns 40 this year), Gemma Atkinson (1984, turns 40 this year), Milo Gibson (1990, turns 34 this year), Pete Davidson (1993, turns 31 this year), Brandon Larracuente (1994, turns 30 this year), India Ennenga (1994, turns 30 this year), Noah Gray Cabey (1995, turns 29 this year), Francesca Scorsese (1999, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Clark Gable (1960, at the age of 59), Dean McDermott (1966, at the age of 59), Claude Dauphin (1978, at the age of 75), Gary Graver (2006, at the age of 68), Edward Woodward (2009, at the age of 79), Michael C. Gross (2015, at the age of 70), Ann Wedgeworth (2017, at the age of 83), William Goldman (2018, at the age of 87), Nancy Brunning (2019, at the age of 47), Terry O'Neill (2019, at the age of 81), Robert Clary (2022, at the age of 96), Meto Jovanovski (2023, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.