On This Day - December 7
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Frozen II | Saturday | $16,050,532 | $477,373,578 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Saturday | $15,063,237 | $400,953,009 |
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Friday | $13,300,000 | $183,417,150 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Saturday | $11,922,878 | $424,668,047 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Friday | $8,689,000 | $70,107,728 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Sunday | $6,686,637 | $111,110,575 |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Saturday | $6,237,162 | $165,364,060 |
| 2002 | Die Another Day | Saturday | $5,872,000 | $160,942,139 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Sunday | $5,449,393 | $337,135,885 |
| 2002 | Analyze That | Saturday | $4,780,000 | $32,122,249 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | Friday | $13,300,000 | $183,417,150 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Friday | $8,689,000 | $70,107,728 |
| 2012 | Playing for Keeps | Friday | $2,127,859 | $13,103,272 |
| 2023 | Waitress: The Musical | Thursday | $672,105 | $5,402,148 |
| 2007 | Atonement | Friday | $243,000 | $50,980,159 |
| 2018 | Kedarnath | Friday | $116,574 | $893,582 |
| 2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Friday | $67,992 | $16,648,499 |
| 2018 | Vox Lux | Friday | $67,967 | $727,119 |
| 2018 | Ben is Back | Friday | $25,197 | $3,703,182 |
| 2012 | Hyde Park on Hudson | Friday | $23,371 | $6,376,145 |
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 7.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Ocean's Eleven | $38,107,822 | $183,417,150 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | $35,165,614 | $477,373,578 |
| 2013 | Frozen | $31,616,230 | $400,953,009 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $26,185,886 | $424,668,047 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | $25,783,232 | $70,107,728 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | $24,271,354 | $111,110,575 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | $22,026,762 | $337,135,885 |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | $18,162,837 | $74,888,996 |
| 2008 | Four Christmases | $16,755,478 | $120,146,040 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | $16,253,831 | $201,091,711 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fay Bainter (1893, died on April 16, 1968 at the age of 74), Clarence Nash (1904, died on February 20, 1985 at the age of 80), Louis Prima (1910, died on August 24, 1978 at the age of 67), Eli Wallach (1915, died on June 24, 2014 at the age of 98), Leigh Brackett (1915, died on March 18, 1978 at the age of 62), Timuel Black (1918, died on October 13, 2021 at the age of 102), Jack Couffer (1924, died on July 30, 2021 at the age of 96), Ellen Burstyn (1932, turns 92 this year), Kenneth Colley (1937, turns 87 this year), Sue Johnston (1943, turns 81 this year), Clive Russell (1945, turns 79 this year), Tom Waits (1946, turns 78 this year), Rosalind Ayres (1946, turns 78 this year), James Keach (1947, turns 77 this year), Tony Thomas (1948, turns 76 this year), Georges Corraface (1952, turns 72 this year), Priscilla Barnes (1954, turns 70 this year), Mark Rolston (1956, turns 68 this year), Abdellatif Kechiche (1960, turns 64 this year), Patrick Fabian (1964, turns 60 this year), Hugo E. Blick (1964, turns 60 this year), Jeffrey Wright (1965, turns 59 this year), C. Thomas Howell (1966, turns 58 this year), Derrick Borte (1967, turns 57 this year), Bryan Johnson (1967, turns 57 this year), Patrice O'Neal (1969, turns 55 this year), Christa Campbell (1972, turns 52 this year), Ellen Burstyn (1976, turns 48 this year), Shiri Appleby (1978, turns 46 this year), Kristofer Hivju (1978, turns 46 this year), Jeff Nichols (1978, turns 46 this year), Ayako Fujitani (1979, turns 45 this year), Sara Bareilles (1979, turns 45 this year), Jennifer Carpenter (1979, turns 45 this year), Eric Bauza (1979, turns 45 this year), Jack Huston (1982, turns 42 this year), Aaron Carter (1987, died on November 5, 2022 at the age of 34), Emily Browning (1988, turns 36 this year), Nicholas Hoult (1989, turns 35 this year), Caleb Landry-Jones (1989, turns 35 this year)
Died on this day in history: Joan Bennett (1990, at the age of 80), Harry Morgan (2011, at the age of 96), Steve Reevis (2017, at the age of 55), Zaza Urushadze (2019, at the age of 54), Natalie Desselle Reid (2020, at the age of 53), Eduardo Galvão (2020, at the age of 57), Harold Budd (2020, at the age of 84), Natalie Desselle (2020, at the age of 53), Greg Tate (2021, at the age of 64), Jan Nowicki (2022, at the age of 83), Keisha Whitaker (2023, at the age of 51)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.