On This Day - January 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $34,368,250 | $936,662,225 |
| 2010 | Avatar | Saturday | $25,835,551 | $785,221,649 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Monday | $21,411,622 | $688,809,501 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $17,502,959 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Monday | $15,913,674 | $533,539,991 |
| 2017 | Sing | Monday | $14,394,090 | $270,329,045 |
| 2010 | Sherlock Holmes | Saturday | $14,373,564 | $209,028,679 |
| 2010 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Saturday | $14,373,273 | $219,614,612 |
| 2026 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Friday | $14,034,307 | $347,000,577 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Friday | $11,698,861 | $674,460,013 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Friday | $7,746,085 | $26,501,323 |
| 2026 | We Bury the Dead | Friday | $1,340,103 | $3,524,912 |
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 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $90,241,673 | $936,662,225 |
| 2010 | Avatar | $68,490,688 | $785,221,649 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $56,023,590 | $814,811,535 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | $41,741,785 | $279,167,575 |
| 2026 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | $41,419,407 | $347,000,577 |
| 2010 | Sherlock Holmes | $36,612,481 | $209,028,679 |
| 2010 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $35,189,653 | $219,614,612 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $33,315,278 | $674,460,013 |
| 2016 | Daddy’s Home | $29,205,583 | $150,357,137 |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $28,180,378 | $381,518,844 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: D’Arcy Corrigan (1870, turned 156 this year), Walter Baldwin (1889, turned 137 this year), Dziga Vertov (1896, died on February 12, 1954 at the age of 58), Anna Lee (1913, died on May 14, 2004 at the age of 91), Harold Bradley (1926, died on January 31, 2019 at the age of 93), John Considine (1935, turned 91 this year), Christopher Durang (1949, died on April 3, 2024 at the age of 75), Tadeusz Bradecki (1955, died on January 24, 2022 at the age of 67), John Bedford Lloyd (1956, turned 70 this year), Debi Connor (1956, died on August 29, 2025 at the age of 69), Joanna Pacula (1957, turned 69 this year), Neal Jones (1960, turned 66 this year), Todd Haynes (1961, turned 65 this year), Kate Hodge (1966, turned 60 this year), Tia Carrere (1967, turned 59 this year), James Marshall (1967, turned 59 this year), Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1968, turned 58 this year), Evan Parke (1968, turned 58 this year), Tommy Morrison (1969, turned 57 this year), Christy Turlington (1969, turned 57 this year), Patrick Huard (1969, turned 57 this year), Taye Diggs (1971, turned 55 this year), Renee Elise Goldsberry (1971, turned 55 this year), Lucy Davis (1973, turned 53 this year), Dax Shepard (1975, turned 51 this year), Dan Cadan (1975, turned 51 this year), Paz Vega (1976, turned 50 this year), Patricia De Leon (1978, turned 48 this year), Karina Smirnoff (1978, turned 48 this year), Erica Hubbard (1979, turned 47 this year), Catherine Bailey (1980, turned 46 this year), Dustin Clare (1982, turned 44 this year), Kate Bosworth (1983, turned 43 this year), Kristen Hager (1984, turned 42 this year), Peter Gadiot (1986, turned 40 this year), Shelley Hennig (1987, turned 39 this year), Lauren Storm (1987, turned 39 this year), Ben Hardy (1991, turned 35 this year), Alden Richards (1992, turned 34 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jack Carson (1963, at the age of 52), Dick Powell (1963, at the age of 58), Una Merkel (1986, at the age of 82), Lynn Cartwright (2004, at the age of 76), Osa Massen (2006, at the age of 91), George MacDonald Fraser (2008, at the age of 82), Steven Gilborn (2009, at the age of 72), Anne Francis (2011, at the age of 80), Pete Postlethwaite (2011, at the age of 64), Michel Delpech (2016, at the age of 69), Bob Einstein (2019, at the age of 76), Ken Block (2023, at the age of 76)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.