On This Day - December 8
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Moana 2 | Sunday | $16,469,653 | $460,405,297 |
| 2001 | Ocean’s Eleven | Saturday | $15,500,000 | $183,417,150 |
| 2024 | Wicked | Sunday | $11,843,485 | $474,983,975 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Sunday | $11,298,128 | $477,373,578 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Saturday | $10,271,000 | $70,107,728 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Sunday | $9,829,173 | $400,953,009 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | Saturday | $7,762,516 | $201,091,711 |
| 2018 | Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch | Saturday | $7,091,330 | $272,961,295 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Sunday | $6,487,230 | $424,668,047 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Saturday | $6,388,000 | $317,871,467 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Boy and the Heron (君たちはどう生きるか) | Friday | $5,602,603 | $46,832,867 |
| 2004 | Blade: Trinity | Wednesday | $5,524,000 | $52,397,389 |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Friday | $5,011,000 | $68,473,360 |
| 2006 | Apocalypto | Friday | $4,904,946 | $50,866,635 |
| 2006 | The Holiday | Friday | $4,441,935 | $63,280,000 |
| 2000 | Proof of Life | Friday | $3,270,000 | $32,598,931 |
| 2000 | Dungeons and Dragons | Friday | $2,810,000 | $15,185,241 |
| 2006 | Blood Diamond | Friday | $2,647,260 | $57,377,916 |
| 2006 | Unaccompanied Minors | Friday | $1,557,219 | $16,655,224 |
| 2017 | Just Getting Started | Friday | $1,156,007 | $6,069,605 |
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 8.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Moana 2 | $51,287,053 | $460,405,297 |
| 2001 | Ocean’s Eleven | $38,107,822 | $183,417,150 |
| 2024 | Wicked | $36,448,420 | $474,983,975 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | $18,646,520 | $262,425,630 |
| 2017 | Coco | $18,452,315 | $210,460,015 |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | $18,162,837 | $74,888,996 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Georges Méliès (1861, died on January 21, 1938 at the age of 76), John Qualen (1899, turned 126 this year), Lee J. Cobb (1911, died on February 11, 1976 at the age of 64), Ernest Lehman (1915, died on July 2, 2005 at the age of 89), Richard Fleischer (1916, died on March 25, 2006 at the age of 89), Ben Hammer (1924, died on September 18, 2017 at the age of 92), Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925, died on May 16, 1990 at the age of 64), Maximilian Schell (1930, turned 95 this year), Johnny Green (1933, turned 92 this year), Ana Ofelia Murguia (1933, died on December 31, 2023 at the age of 90), David Carradine (1936, died on June 3, 2009 at the age of 72), James MacArthur (1937, died on October 28, 2010 at the age of 72), Dariush Mehrjui (1939, died on October 14, 2023 at the age of 83), John Banville (1945, turned 80 this year), John Rubinstein (1946, turned 79 this year), Mary Woronov (1946, turned 79 this year), Belinda Balaski (1947, turned 78 this year), Nancy Meyers (1949, turned 76 this year), Rick Baker (1950, turned 75 this year), Sorapong Chatree (1950, died on March 10, 2022 at the age of 71), Greg Collins (1952, turned 73 this year), Sam Kinison (1953, died on April 10, 1992 at the age of 38), Kim Basinger (1953, turned 72 this year), Manobala (1953, died on May 3, 2023 at the age of 69), Deborra-lee Furness (1955, turned 70 this year), Kevin McNulty (1955, turned 70 this year), Wendell Pierce (1963, turned 62 this year), Teri Hatcher (1964, turned 61 this year), David Harewood (1965, turned 60 this year), Ned Dennehy (1965, turned 60 this year), Tyler Mane (1966, turned 59 this year), Matt Adler (1966, turned 59 this year), Kotono Mitsuishi (1967, turned 58 this year), Corey Taylor (1973, turned 52 this year), Dominic Monaghan (1976, turned 49 this year), Matthias Schoenaerts (1977, turned 48 this year), Ian Somerhalder (1978, turned 47 this year), Margaret Anne Florence (1978, turned 47 this year), Raymond Lam (1979, turned 46 this year), Nick Thune (1979, turned 46 this year), Juliette Danielle (1980, turned 45 this year), Nick Nevern (1980, turned 45 this year), Dov Tiefenbach (1981, turned 44 this year), Nicki Minaj (1982, turned 43 this year), Utkarsh Ambudkar (1983, turned 42 this year), Katie Stevens (1992, turned 33 this year), AnnaSophia Robb (1993, turned 32 this year), Teala Dunn (1996, turned 29 this year), Owen Teague (1998, turned 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Martin Ritt (1990, at the age of 76), Bob Spiers (2008, at the age of 63), Robert Prosky (2008, at the age of 77), Bob Harks (2010, at the age of 83), René Auberjonois (2019, at the age of 79), Caroll Spinney (2019, at the age of 85), Paul Volcker (2019, at the age of 92), Helen Slayton-Hughes (2022, at the age of 91), Ryan O'Neal (2023, at the age of 82)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.