On This Day - January 12
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mean Girls | Friday | $11,527,268 | $72,581,770 |
| 2013 | Zero Dark Thirty | Saturday | $9,354,467 | $95,720,716 |
| 2020 | 1917 | Sunday | $9,294,845 | $159,227,644 |
| 2014 | Lone Survivor | Sunday | $8,984,385 | $125,095,601 |
| 2008 | The Bucket List | Saturday | $8,271,248 | $93,466,502 |
| 2019 | The Upside | Saturday | $7,864,742 | $108,235,497 |
| 2019 | Aquaman | Saturday | $7,747,528 | $335,061,807 |
| 2008 | First Sunday | Saturday | $7,673,647 | $37,931,869 |
| 2013 | A Haunted House | Saturday | $7,537,706 | $40,041,683 |
| 2001 | Save the Last Dance | Friday | $7,512,000 | $91,038,276 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Mean Girls | Friday | $11,527,268 | $72,581,770 |
| 2001 | Save the Last Dance | Friday | $7,512,000 | $91,038,276 |
| 2007 | Stomp the Yard | Friday | $7,210,616 | $61,356,221 |
| 2024 | The Beekeeper | Friday | $6,765,012 | $66,220,535 |
| 2018 | The Commuter | Friday | $4,509,520 | $36,343,858 |
| 2018 | Proud Mary | Friday | $3,189,515 | $20,868,638 |
| 2001 | Double Take | Friday | $3,005,000 | $29,823,162 |
| 2000 | Next Friday | Wednesday | $2,696,871 | $57,176,582 |
| 2018 | Paddington 2 | Friday | $2,422,120 | $40,964,849 |
| 2007 | Alpha Dog | Friday | $2,339,535 | $15,309,602 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 12.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Lone Survivor | $37,849,910 | $125,095,601 |
| 2020 | 1917 | $37,000,200 | $159,227,644 |
| 2024 | Mean Girls | $28,635,307 | $72,581,770 |
| 2018 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $28,101,972 | $404,508,916 |
| 2001 | Save the Last Dance | $27,526,443 | $91,038,276 |
| 2013 | Zero Dark Thirty | $24,438,936 | $95,720,716 |
| 2007 | Stomp the Yard | $21,833,312 | $61,356,221 |
| 2019 | The Upside | $20,355,000 | $108,235,497 |
| 2001 | Cast Away | $19,777,426 | $233,632,142 |
| 2008 | The Bucket List | $19,392,416 | $93,466,502 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charles Perrault (1628, died on May 16, 1703 at the age of 75), Jack London (1876, died on November 22, 1916 at the age of 40), Jean Delannoy (1908, died on June 18, 2008 at the age of 100), Leah Adler (1920, died on February 17, 2017 at the age of 97), Andrew Laszlo (1926, turned 99 this year), Edgar Lansbury (1930, died on May 2, 2024 at the age of 94), Liliana Cavani (1933, turned 92 this year), Alan Sharp (1934, died on February 8, 2013 at the age of 79), Bob Dishy (1934, turned 91 this year), Shirley Eaton (1937, turned 88 this year), John Gregg (1939, died on May 29, 2021 at the age of 82), Matthias Habich (1940, turned 85 this year), Jed Mills (1941, turned 84 this year), Kenneth Danziger (1945, turned 80 this year), Andre De Shields (1946, turned 79 this year), Alex Thomson (1946, turned 79 this year), Roy H. Wagner (1947, turned 78 this year), William Nicholson (1948, turned 77 this year), Anthony Andrews (1948, turned 77 this year), Wayne Wang (1949, turned 76 this year), Haruki Murakami (1949, turned 76 this year), Hector Mercado (1949, turned 76 this year), Kirstie Alley (1951, died on December 5, 2022 at the age of 71), Walter Mosley (1952, turned 73 this year), Mary Harron (1953, turned 72 this year), Phil Reeves (1953, turned 72 this year), Howard Stern (1954, turned 71 this year), Frank LaLoggia (1954, turned 71 this year), Madhumalti Kapoor (1955, turned 70 this year), John Lasseter (1957, turned 68 this year), Bruno Arena (1957, died on September 28, 2022 at the age of 65), Christiane Amanpour (1958, turned 67 this year), Ralf Moeller (1959, turned 66 this year), Debra Feuer (1959, turned 66 this year), Blixa Bargeld (1959, turned 66 this year), Mike van Diem (1959, turned 66 this year), Oliver Platt (1960, turned 65 this year), Simon Russell Beale (1961, turned 64 this year), Catherine Dao (1961, turned 64 this year), Francois Girard (1963, turned 62 this year), Matt Malloy (1963, turned 62 this year), Johnny Martin (1963, turned 62 this year), Jeff Bezos (1964, turned 61 this year), Clare Holman (1964, turned 61 this year), Barry Poltermann (1964, turned 61 this year), Rob Zombie (1965, turned 60 this year), Alexandra Wentworth (1965, turned 60 this year), Olivier Martinez (1966, turned 59 this year), Blanchard Ryan (1967, turned 58 this year), Renata Litvino (1967, turned 58 this year), Rachael Harris (1968, turned 57 this year), Farrah Forke (1968, turned 57 this year), Christopher Gartin (1968, turned 57 this year), Laura Mañá (1968, turned 57 this year), Margaret Nagle (1969, turned 56 this year), Nataliya Vdovina (1969, turned 56 this year), Heidi Jo Markel (1971, turned 54 this year), Jason Sklar (1972, turned 53 this year), Zach Ansley (1972, turned 53 this year), Zabryna Guevara (1972, turned 53 this year), Randy Sklar (1972, turned 53 this year), Sid Owen (1972, turned 53 this year), Jorge Ameer (1972, turned 53 this year), Prashant Bhargava (1973, died on May 16, 2015 at the age of 42), Alex Greenfield (1973, turned 52 this year), Stewart Wright (1974, turned 51 this year), Aaron Seltzer (1974, turned 51 this year), Teuila Blakely (1975, turned 50 this year), Miki Nakatani (1976, turned 49 this year), Piolo Pascual (1977, turned 48 this year), Yohana Cobo (1978, turned 47 this year), Anne Sewitsky (1978, turned 47 this year), Jeremy Camp (1978, turned 47 this year), Bianca Nappi (1979, turned 46 this year), Vanessa Johansson (1980, turned 45 this year), Anjorka Strechel (1982, turned 43 this year), Sara Fletcher (1983, turned 42 this year), Jessie Graff (1984, turned 41 this year), Taraneh Alidoosti (1984, turned 41 this year), Sam Richardson (1984, turned 41 this year), Issa Rae (1985, turned 40 this year), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (1985, turned 40 this year), Danielle Judovits (1985, turned 40 this year), Jakob Oftebro (1986, turned 39 this year), Naya Rivera (1987, died on July 8, 2020 at the age of 33), Will Rothhaar (1987, turned 38 this year), Andrew Lawrence (1988, turned 37 this year), Tiler Peck (1989, turned 36 this year), Pixie Lott (1991, turned 34 this year), Zayn Malik (1993, turned 32 this year), Mithila Palkar (1993, turned 32 this year), Elit Iscan (1994, turned 31 this year), Ai Hashimoto (1996, turned 29 this year), Nathan Gamble (1998, turned 27 this year), Ally Ioannides (1998, turned 27 this year), Ahn Seo-hyun (2004, turned 21 this year)
Died on this day in history: Agatha Christie (1976, at the age of 85), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1977, at the age of 69), Keye Luke (1991, at the age of 86), Betty Lou Gerson (1999, at the age of 84), Maurice Gibb (2003, at the age of 53), Kinji Fukasaku (2003, at the age of 72), Amrish Puri (2005, at the age of 72), Claude Berri (2009, at the age of 74), William Peter Blatty (2017, at the age of 89), Etsuko Ichihara (2019, at the age of 82), William Bogert (2020, at the age of 83), Bogdan Stanoevitch (2021, at the age of 62), Leslie Charleson (2025, at the age of 79), Claude Jarman Jr. (2025, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.