On This Day - December 14
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 14.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Friday | $37,125,547 | $303,003,568 |
| 2007 | I am Legend | Friday | $30,059,386 | $256,393,010 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Saturday | $24,430,416 | $258,241,522 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Saturday | $23,610,586 | $316,831,246 |
| 2007 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Friday | $13,300,713 | $217,326,974 |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D | Friday | $12,665,081 | $190,173,195 |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | Saturday | $12,115,500 | $460,405,297 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Saturday | $10,144,815 | $400,953,009 |
| 2005 | King Kong | Wednesday | $9,755,745 | $218,080,025 |
| 2024 | Wicked | Saturday | $9,442,760 | $473,231,120 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 14.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Friday | $37,125,547 | $303,003,568 |
| 2007 | I am Legend | Friday | $30,059,386 | $256,393,010 |
| 2007 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Friday | $13,300,713 | $217,326,974 |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D | Friday | $12,665,081 | $190,173,195 |
| 2005 | King Kong | Wednesday | $9,755,745 | $218,080,025 |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | Friday | $8,408,000 | $100,614,858 |
| 2018 | The Mule | Friday | $5,848,645 | $103,804,407 |
| 2001 | Not Another Teen Movie | Friday | $4,978,000 | $37,882,551 |
| 2018 | Mortal Engines | Friday | $2,818,295 | $15,951,040 |
| 2007 | The Kite Runner | Friday | $141,375 | $15,800,078 |
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 14.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $84,617,303 | $303,003,568 |
| 2007 | I am Legend | $77,211,321 | $256,393,010 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | $73,645,197 | $258,241,522 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | $59,251,543 | $316,831,246 |
| 2007 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | $44,307,417 | $217,326,974 |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D | $35,363,376 | $190,173,195 |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | $32,926,342 | $101,363,301 |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | $30,480,153 | $79,366,978 |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | $26,499,368 | $460,405,297 |
| 2001 | Vanilla Sky | $25,015,518 | $100,614,858 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Frances Bavier (1902, turns 123 this year), Laurence Naismith (1908, died on June 5, 1992 at the age of 83), Dan Dailey (1915, died on October 16, 1978 at the age of 62), Shirley Jackson (1916, died on August 8, 1965 at the age of 48), Marge Redmond (1924, died on February 10, 2020 at the age of 95), Abbe Lane (1932, turns 93 this year), Shyam Benegal (1934, died on December 23, 2024 at the age of 90), Lee Remick (1935, died on July 2, 1991 at the age of 55), Lewis Arquette (1935, died on February 10, 2001 at the age of 65), Barbara Leigh Hunt (1935, turns 90 this year), Chris Harris (1942, turns 83 this year), Richard Kerr (1944, died on December 11, 2023 at the age of 78), Stanley Crouch (1945, died on September 16, 2020 at the age of 74), Patty Duke (1946, died on March 29, 2016 at the age of 69), Jane Birkin (1946, died on July 16, 2023 at the age of 76), Lynne Marie Stewart (1946, died on February 21, 2025 at the age of 78), Dee Wallace (1948, turns 77 this year), Celia Weston (1951, turns 74 this year), John Lurie (1952, turns 73 this year), Jim Davidson (1953, turns 72 this year), James Horan (1954, turns 71 this year), Debbie Lee Carrington (1959, died on March 23, 2018 at the age of 58), Don Franklin (1960, turns 65 this year), Rebecca Gibney (1964, turns 61 this year), Dino Stamatopoulos (1964, turns 61 this year), Ted Raimi (1965, turns 60 this year), Peter Murnik (1965, turns 60 this year), Michael Stoyanov (1966, turns 59 this year), Noelle Beck (1968, turns 57 this year), Natascha McElhone (1969, turns 56 this year), Archie Kao (1969, turns 56 this year), Michaela Watkins (1971, turns 54 this year), Miranda Hart (1972, turns 53 this year), Jason Barry (1972, turns 53 this year), Hector Jimenez (1973, turns 52 this year), KaDee Strickland (1975, turns 50 this year), Tammy Blanchard (1976, turns 49 this year), Sophie Monk (1979, turns 46 this year), Tia Texada (1981, turns 44 this year), Christine Horne (1981, turns 44 this year), Matthew McNulty (1982, turns 43 this year), Jackson Rathbone (1984, turns 41 this year), Rana Daggubati (1984, turns 41 this year), Vanessa Hudgens (1988, turns 37 this year), Tori Kelly (1992, turns 33 this year), Kedar Williams-Stirling (1994, turns 31 this year), Joshua Rush (2001, turns 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Verna Felton (1966, at the age of 76), Jock Mahoney (1989, at the age of 70), Myrna Loy (1993, at the age of 88), Norman Fell (1998, at the age of 74), Jeanne Crain (2003, at the age of 78), Peter O'Toole (2013, at the age of 81), Edmund Lyndeck (2015, at the age of 90), Bernard Fox (2016, at the age of 89), Neeraj Vora (2017, at the age of 54), Anna Karina (2019, at the age of 79), John Briley (2019, at the age of 94)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.