On This Day - December 28
| ← December 27 | Day Index | December 29 → |
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Monday | $31,362,029 | $936,662,225 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Saturday | $25,075,535 | $515,202,542 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Tuesday | $21,346,817 | $814,115,070 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Wednesday | $20,582,014 | $684,075,767 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Thursday | $19,490,329 | $620,181,382 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Monday | $19,418,139 | $785,221,649 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Wednesday | $18,021,482 | $533,539,991 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Saturday | $17,227,061 | $342,548,984 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Friday | $17,041,113 | $335,061,807 |
| 2016 | Sing | Wednesday | $15,501,840 | $270,329,045 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 28.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Simmba | Friday | $512,891 | $5,102,129 |
| 2005 | Match Point | Wednesday | $96,000 | $23,089,926 |
| 2012 | Promised Land | Friday | $53,453 | $7,597,898 |
| 2011 | Pariah | Wednesday | $21,824 | $769,552 |
| 2016 | Paterson | Wednesday | $16,829 | $2,141,423 |
| 2016 | Umi ga kikoeru | Wednesday | $1,845 | $87,737 |
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 28.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | $72,389,590 | $515,202,542 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | $52,114,571 | $335,061,807 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $50,598,104 | $379,021,990 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $48,875,549 | $342,548,984 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $40,921,395 | $255,119,788 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $38,695,582 | $315,544,750 |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | $36,672,708 | $219,961,501 |
| 2008 | Marley & Me | $36,357,586 | $143,153,751 |
| 1997 | Titanic | $35,455,673 | $674,460,013 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | $35,249,690 | $316,831,246 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: F.W. Murnau (1888, died on March 11, 1931 at the age of 42), Mikhail Kalatozov (1903, died on March 27, 1973 at the age of 69), Lew Ayres (1908, died on December 30, 1996 at the age of 88), Lou Jacobi (1913, died on October 23, 2009 at the age of 95), Stan Lee (1922, died on November 12, 2018 at the age of 95), Andrew Duggan (1923, turns 101 this year), Hildegard Knef (1925, turns 99 this year), Kim Chan (1928, turns 96 this year), Nichelle Nichols (1932, died on July 30, 2022 at the age of 89), Charles Portis (1933, died on February 17, 2020 at the age of 86), Maggie Smith (1934, turns 90 this year), Fernando Lopes (1935, died on May 2, 2012 at the age of 76), William Bassett (1935, turns 89 this year), Lawrence Schiller (1936, turns 88 this year), Frank Kelly (1938, died on February 28, 2016 at the age of 77), Peter MacGregor-Scott (1947, died on October 25, 2017 at the age of 69), Mary Weiss (1948, died on January 19, 2024 at the age of 75), Randle Mell (1951, turns 73 this year), James Foley (1953, turns 71 this year), Denzel Washington (1954, turns 70 this year), Gayle King (1954, turns 70 this year), Chad McQueen (1960, turns 64 this year), Jan Bijvoet (1966, turns 58 this year), Lior Ashkenazi (1969, turns 55 this year), Elaine Hendrix (1970, turns 54 this year), Seth Meyers (1973, turns 51 this year), Alex Dimitriades (1973, turns 51 this year), Tannis Vallely (1975, turns 49 this year), Joe Manganiello (1976, turns 48 this year), Brendan Hines (1976, turns 48 this year), Vanessa Ferlito (1977, turns 47 this year), Michael Spears (1977, turns 47 this year), John Legend (1978, turns 46 this year), Noomi Rapace (1979, turns 45 this year), Rob Stewart (1979, died on January 31, 2017 at the age of 37), André Holland (1979, turns 45 this year), Bree Williamson (1979, turns 45 this year), Sienna Miller (1981, turns 43 this year), Beau Garrett (1982, turns 42 this year), Jennifer Decker (1982, turns 42 this year), Thomas Dekker (1987, turns 37 this year), Hannah Tointon (1987, turns 37 this year), Adam Gregory (1987, turns 37 this year), Jessie Buckley (1989, turns 35 this year), Melissa Bolona (1989, turns 35 this year), Mackenzie Rosman (1989, turns 35 this year), Sarah Sofie Boussnina (1990, turns 34 this year), Jared Gilman (1998, turns 26 this year), Madison De La Garza (2001, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Max Steiner (1971, at the age of 83), Dennis Wilson (1983, at the age of 39), William Demarest (1983, at the age of 91), Sam Peckinpah (1984, at the age of 59), Warren Skaaren (1990, at the age of 44), William Frankfather (1998, at the age of 54), Clayton Moore (1999, at the age of 85), Jerry Orbach (2004, at the age of 69), Patrick Cranshaw (2005, at the age of 86), Joseph Ruskin (2013, at the age of 89), Sean Whitesell (2015, at the age of 52), Debbie Reynolds (2016, at the age of 84), Rose Marie (2017, at the age of 94), Dame June Whitfield (2018, at the age of 93), John Madden (2021, at the age of 72), Harry Reid (2021, at the age of 82)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.