On This Day - December 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Thursday | $27,395,725 | $936,662,225 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Tuesday | $20,270,474 | $515,202,542 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Friday | $19,655,506 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Sunday | $17,629,999 | $620,181,382 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saturday | $15,308,508 | $533,539,991 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Saturday | $14,869,288 | $684,075,767 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Thursday | $11,150,998 | $785,221,649 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Monday | $10,851,928 | $335,061,807 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Sunday | $9,049,833 | $404,508,916 |
| 2016 | Sing | Saturday | $7,915,035 | $270,329,045 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ) | Friday | $531 | $78,182 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $84,548,505 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | $71,565,498 | $620,181,382 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $64,033,768 | $533,539,991 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $63,338,220 | $684,075,767 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | $46,120,980 | $279,167,575 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $36,169,328 | $404,508,916 |
| 2016 | Sing | $35,258,145 | $270,329,045 |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | $30,833,665 | $148,438,600 |
| 2006 | Night at the Museum | $30,433,781 | $250,863,268 |
| 2011 | Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol | $29,556,629 | $209,397,903 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Michael Curtiz (1886, died on April 11, 1962 at the age of 75), Joseph Cornell (1903, died on December 29, 1972 at the age of 69), Howard Hughes (1905, died on April 5, 1976 at the age of 70), Janet Carroll (1910, died on May 22, 2012 at the age of 101), Ava Gardner (1922, died on December 24, 1922 at the age of 0), Norman Rossington (1924, died on May 21, 1999 at the age of 74), Robert Ridgely (1931, turns 94 this year), Jill Bennett (1931, turns 94 this year), Philippe Nahon (1938, died on April 19, 2020 at the age of 81), Sharon Farrell (1940, turns 85 this year), Nicholas Meyer (1945, turns 80 this year), Edwige Fenech (1948, turns 77 this year), Timothy Carhart (1953, turns 72 this year), Julius Tennon (1953, turns 72 this year), Clarence Gilyard Jr. (1955, died on November 28, 2022 at the age of 66), Grand L Bush (1955, turns 70 this year), Anil Kapoor (1956, turns 69 this year), Stephanie Hodge (1956, turns 69 this year), Scott Spiegel (1957, turns 68 this year), Lee Daniels (1959, turns 66 this year), Wade Williams (1961, turns 64 this year), Bill Siegel (1962, died on December 11, 2018 at the age of 55), Gavin O’Connor (1963, turns 62 this year), Mark Valley (1964, turns 61 this year), Diedrich Bader (1966, turns 59 this year), Randy J. Goodwin (1967, turns 58 this year), Nick Love (1969, turns 56 this year), Pernille Fischer Christensen (1969, turns 56 this year), Amaury Nolasco (1970, turns 55 this year), Keith Silverstein (1970, turns 55 this year), Breck Eisner (1970, turns 55 this year), Jeremy Davidson (1971, turns 54 this year), Ricky Martin (1971, turns 54 this year), Stephenie Meyer (1973, turns 52 this year), Matt Passmore (1973, turns 52 this year), J.D. Walsh (1974, turns 51 this year), Ryan Seacrest (1974, turns 51 this year), Thure Lindhardt (1974, turns 51 this year), Michael Raymond-James (1977, turns 48 this year), Ben Geurens (1979, turns 46 this year), Robert Schwartzman (1982, turns 43 this year), Austin Stowell (1984, turns 41 this year), Laura Aikman (1985, turns 40 this year), Abigail Klein (1988, turns 37 this year), Louis Tomlinson (1991, turns 34 this year), Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991, turns 34 this year), Millie Brady (1993, turns 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Ava Gardner (1922, at the age of 0), Peter Lawford (1984, at the age of 61), Ian Hendry (1984, at the age of 53), Rossano Brazzi (1994, at the age of 78), Toshiro Mifune (1997, at the age of 77), Jack Klugman (2012, at the age of 90), Charles Durning (2012, at the age of 89), Richard Adams (2016, at the age of 96), Liz Smith (2016, at the age of 95), Heather Menzies (2017, at the age of 68), Patrice Martinez (2018, at the age of 55), Allee Willis (2019, at the age of 72), Tunisha Sharma (2022, at the age of 20), Catherine Cyran (2022, at the age of 20), Epigmenio Rodríguez (2023, at the age of 70), David Leland (2024, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.