On This Day - December 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $68,294,204 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $64,232,578 | $814,811,535 |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Friday | $36,486,725 | $368,140,888 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Saturday | $25,529,036 | $785,221,649 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Friday | $21,811,549 | $381,981,648 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Tuesday | $20,254,189 | $620,181,382 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Wednesday | $18,214,211 | $323,680,679 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Monday | $17,596,150 | $533,539,991 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Friday | $16,563,371 | $255,119,788 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Monday | $16,257,078 | $688,809,501 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Friday | $36,486,725 | $368,140,888 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Wednesday | $18,214,211 | $323,680,679 |
| 2025 | David | Friday | $9,662,302 | $78,496,554 |
| 1997 | Titanic | Friday | $8,658,814 | $674,460,013 |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | Friday | $8,570,000 | $125,304,276 |
| 2025 | The Housemaid | Friday | $8,019,221 | $108,861,235 |
| 2008 | Yes Man | Friday | $6,495,077 | $97,690,976 |
| 2025 | The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants | Friday | $6,003,950 | $68,242,224 |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Friday | $5,655,945 | $113,746,621 |
| 2014 | Annie | Friday | $5,289,149 | $85,911,262 |
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 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $260,138,569 | $814,811,535 |
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $247,966,675 | $936,662,225 |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | $89,160,860 | $368,140,888 |
| 2009 | Avatar | $77,025,481 | $785,221,649 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $72,629,713 | $381,981,648 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $54,724,334 | $255,119,788 |
| 2010 | Tron: Legacy | $44,026,211 | $172,062,763 |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events | $30,061,756 | $118,627,117 |
| 1997 | Titanic | $28,638,131 | $674,460,013 |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | $25,143,007 | $125,304,276 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2031: Avatar 5
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Ralph Richardson (1902, died on October 10, 1983 at the age of 80), Lee Rich (1918, died on May 24, 2012 at the age of 93), Gordon Jackson (1923, died on January 15, 1990 at the age of 66), Cicely Tyson (1924, died on January 28, 2021 at the age of 96), Edmund Purdom (1924, died on January 1, 2009 at the age of 84), Gary Morton (1924, died on March 30, 1999 at the age of 74), Robert B. Sherman (1925, died on March 6, 2012 at the age of 86), James Booth (1927, died on August 11, 2005 at the age of 77), Howard Sackler (1929, died on October 12, 1982 at the age of 52), Wayne Tippit (1932, died on April 28, 2009 at the age of 76), A.B.Yehoshua (1936, died on June 14, 2022 at the age of 85), Peter H. Hunt (1938, died on April 26, 2020 at the age of 81), Sam Kelly (1943, died on June 14, 2014 at the age of 70), Tim Reid (1944, turns 82 this year), Elaine Joyce (1945, turns 81 this year), Jack Fisk (1945, turns 81 this year), Robert Urich (1946, died on April 16, 2002 at the age of 55), John Gulager (1957, turns 69 this year), Mike Lookinland (1960, turns 66 this year), Scott Cohen (1961, turns 65 this year), Gary Fleder (1962, turns 64 this year), Jill Talley (1962, turns 64 this year), Aki Aleong (1962, died on June 24, 2025 at the age of 62), Til Schweiger (1963, turns 63 this year), Jennifer Beals (1963, turns 63 this year), Paul Rhys (1963, turns 63 this year), Beatrice Dalle (1964, turns 62 this year), Jessica Steen (1965, turns 61 this year), Robert MacNaughton (1966, turns 60 this year), Ken Marino (1968, turns 58 this year), Kristy Swanson (1969, turns 57 this year), Lauren Sanchez (1969, turns 57 this year), Tyson Beckford (1970, turns 56 this year), Alyssa Milano (1972, turns 54 this year), Rosa Blasi (1972, turns 54 this year), Blake Lindsley (1973, turns 53 this year), Claire Cox (1975, turns 51 this year), Mahie Gill (1975, turns 51 this year), Patrick Casey (1978, turns 48 this year), A.J. Tesler (1978, turns 48 this year), Tara Summers (1979, turns 47 this year), Marla Sokoloff (1980, turns 46 this year), Jake Gyllenhaal (1980, turns 46 this year), Amy Locane (1983, turns 43 this year), Annie Murphy (1986, turns 40 this year), Natalia de Molina (1989, turns 37 this year), Libe Barer (1991, turns 35 this year), Hermione Corfield (1993, turns 33 this year)
Died on this day in history: Emily Bronte (1848, at the age of 30), Jacques Tourneur (1977, at the age of 73), Paul Maxwell (1991, at the age of 70), Marcello Mastroianni (1996, at the age of 72), Michael Alldredge (1997, at the age of 56), Desmond Llewelyn (1999, at the age of 85), Hope Lange (2003, at the age of 70), Les Tremayne (2003, at the age of 90), Ned Vizzini (2013, at the age of 32), Dick Latessa (2016, at the age of 87), Richard Venture (2017, at the age of 94), Audrey Geisel (2018, at the age of 97), David Giler (2020, at the age of 77), Rosalind Knight (2020, at the age of 87), James Ransone (2025, at the age of 46), Helen Siff (2025, at the age of 46)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.