On This Day - November 20
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $297,214,449 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | Saturday | $38,226,254 | $297,414,693 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | Sunday | $26,450,532 | $281,791,883 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Sunday | $25,848,463 | $291,147,424 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Sunday | $19,710,460 | $453,829,060 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Sunday | $18,493,911 | $234,037,575 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Saturday | $16,437,835 | $129,360,575 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | Saturday | $14,588,162 | $173,005,002 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | Saturday | $14,220,000 | $126,930,660 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $297,214,449 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Friday | $11,038,423 | $255,959,475 |
| 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Friday | $6,730,000 | $100,494,685 |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Friday | $6,360,000 | $111,549,836 |
| 2015 | The Night Before | Friday | $3,561,439 | $43,035,725 |
| 2009 | Planet 51 | Friday | $3,185,083 | $42,194,060 |
| 2015 | Secret in Their Eyes | Friday | $2,331,446 | $20,180,155 |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Friday | $515,000 | $5,078,660 |
| 2009 | Kurbaan | Friday | $127,809 | $754,269 |
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 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | $142,839,137 | $297,214,449 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $138,122,261 | $281,791,883 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | $125,017,372 | $297,414,693 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $102,685,961 | $291,147,424 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | $102,665,981 | $281,723,902 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $74,403,387 | $234,037,575 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | $66,482,266 | $453,829,060 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | $44,008,406 | $129,360,575 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | $35,519,007 | $126,930,660 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | $35,142,554 | $173,005,002 |
Released Today
Movies that were released today: Raju Weds Rambai
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Warner Bros. Film, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Robert Armstrong (1890, died on April 20, 1973 at the age of 82), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907, died on January 12, 1977 at the age of 69), Kon Ichikawa (1915, died on February 13, 2008 at the age of 92), Evelyn Keyes (1916, died on July 4, 2008 at the age of 91), Phyllis Thaxter (1919, turns 106 today), Kaye Ballard (1925, died on January 21, 2019 at the age of 93), Estelle Parsons (1927, turns 98 today), Jerry Hardin (1929, turns 96 today), Richard Dawson (1932, died on June 2, 2012 at the age of 79), Bob Einstein (1942, died on January 2, 2019 at the age of 76), Joseph Biden (1942, turns 83 today), Veronica Hamel (1943, turns 82 today), Mie Hama (1943, turns 82 today), Samuel E. Wright (1946, died on May 24, 2021 at the age of 74), Rodger Bumpass (1951, turns 74 today), Bo Derek (1956, turns 69 today), Gregg Champion (1956, turns 69 today), Sean Young (1959, turns 66 today), Rajkumar Hirani (1962, turns 63 today), Ming-Na Wen (1963, turns 62 today), Ned Vaughn (1964, turns 61 today), Richard Masur (1969, turns 56 today), Callie Thorne (1969, turns 56 today), Angelica Bridges (1970, turns 55 today), Joel McHale (1971, turns 54 today), Melissa McMeekin (1972, turns 53 today), Marisa Ryan (1974, turns 51 today), David O'Donnell (1974, turns 51 today), Florian David Fitz (1974, turns 51 today), Laura Harris (1976, turns 49 today), Nadine Velazquez (1978, turns 47 today), Jacob Pitts (1979, turns 46 today), Andrea Riseborough (1981, turns 44 today), Margo Stilley (1982, turns 43 today), Halley Feiffer (1984, turns 41 today), Dan Byrd (1985, turns 40 today), Ashley Fink (1986, turns 39 today), Kingsley Ben-Adir (1986, turns 39 today), Amelia Rose Blaire (1987, turns 38 today), Rhys Wakefield (1988, turns 37 today), Gabrielle Stone (1988, turns 37 today), Cody Linley (1989, turns 36 today), Sergei Polunin (1989, turns 36 today), Madisyn Shipman (2002, turns 23 today)
Died on this day in history: Richard Loo (1983, at the age of 80), Emile Ardolino (1993, at the age of 50), Nora Denney (2005, at the age of 78), Robert Altman (2006, at the age of 81), William Trevor (2016, at the age of 88), Robert Blythe (2018, at the age of 71), Michael J. Pollard (2019, at the age of 80), Fábio Barreto (2019, at the age of 62), Peter Aykroyd (2021, at the age of 66), Gray Frederickson (2022, at the age of 85), Andy Paley (2024, at the age of 71)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.