On This Day - January 6
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | Friday | $16,756,764 | $53,262,945 |
| 2018 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Saturday | $15,821,094 | $404,508,916 |
| 2023 | M3GAN | Friday | $11,726,555 | $95,159,005 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Friday | $11,421,079 | $688,809,501 |
| 2001 | Cast Away | Saturday | $11,110,000 | $233,632,142 |
| 2018 | Insidious: The Last Key | Saturday | $11,023,230 | $67,745,330 |
| 2007 | Night at the Museum | Saturday | $10,485,369 | $250,863,268 |
| 2018 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Saturday | $10,398,845 | $620,181,382 |
| 2019 | Aquaman | Sunday | $8,561,508 | $335,061,807 |
| 2017 | Hidden Figures | Friday | $7,621,334 | $169,607,287 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | Friday | $16,756,764 | $53,262,945 |
| 2023 | M3GAN | Friday | $11,726,555 | $95,159,005 |
| 2006 | Hostel | Friday | $7,620,052 | $47,326,473 |
| 2017 | Underworld: Blood Wars | Friday | $4,870,916 | $30,353,973 |
| 2013 | Struck By Lightning | Sunday | $9,990 | $28,378 |
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 6.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $45,838,986 | $688,809,501 |
| 2018 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $37,233,653 | $404,508,916 |
| 2012 | The Devil Inside | $33,732,515 | $53,262,945 |
| 2019 | Aquaman | $31,003,280 | $335,061,807 |
| 2023 | M3GAN | $30,429,860 | $95,159,005 |
| 2018 | Insidious: The Last Key | $29,581,355 | $67,745,330 |
| 2007 | Night at the Museum | $23,743,960 | $250,863,268 |
| 2018 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | $23,728,944 | $620,181,382 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $23,006,447 | $319,232,617 |
| 2017 | Hidden Figures | $22,800,057 | $169,607,287 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fred Niblo (1874, died on November 11, 1948 at the age of 74), Loretta Young (1913, died on August 12, 2000 at the age of 87), Toru Tanaka (1930, died on August 22, 2000 at the age of 70), Kaoru Yachigusa (1931, died on October 24, 2019 at the age of 88), John Clive (1933, died on October 14, 2012 at the age of 79), Todd Gitlin (1943, died on February 5, 2022 at the age of 79), Elaine Bromka (1950, turns 76 this year), Richard Norton (1950, died on March 30, 2025 at the age of 75), Frank Sivero (1952, turns 74 this year), Trudie Styler (1954, turns 72 this year), Anthony Minghella (1954, turns 72 this year), Nicolette Scorsese (1954, turns 72 this year), Rowan Atkinson (1955, turns 71 this year), Angus Deayton (1956, turns 70 this year), Cara Seymour (1964, turns 62 this year), John Singleton (1968, died on April 28, 2019 at the age of 51), Norman Reedus (1969, turns 57 this year), David Prior (1969, turns 57 this year), Greg Lauren (1970, turns 56 this year), Edoardo Ponti (1973, turns 53 this year), Nicole DeHuff (1975, turns 51 this year), Johnny Yong Bosch (1976, turns 50 this year), Danny Pintauro (1976, turns 50 this year), Genevieve O'Reilly (1977, turns 49 this year), Tara Spencer-Nairn (1978, turns 48 this year), Cristela Alonzo (1979, turns 47 this year), Jérémie Renier (1981, turns 45 this year), Rinko Kikuchi (1981, turns 45 this year), Eddie Redmayne (1982, turns 44 this year), Cristina Rosato (1983, turns 43 this year), Efrat Dor (1983, turns 43 this year), Kate McKinnon (1984, turns 42 this year), Irina Shayk (1986, turns 40 this year), Elizabeth Blackmore (1987, turns 39 this year), Max Pirkis (1989, turns 37 this year), Masey McLain (1994, turns 32 this year), Courtney Eaton (1996, turns 30 this year), Eliza Scanlen (1999, turns 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Victor Fleming (1949, at the age of 59), Ian Charleson (1990, at the age of 40), Catherine Scorsese (1997, at the age of 84), Scott Marlowe (2001, at the age of 68), Lou Rawls (2006, at the age of 72), Ron Asheton (2009, at the age of 60), Om Puri (2017, at the age of 66), Francine York (2017, at the age of 80), W. Morgan Sheppard (2019, at the age of 86), Gregg Rudloff (2019, at the age of 63), William Morgan Sheppard (2019, at the age of 86), Peter Bogdanovich (2022, at the age of 82), Owen Roizman (2023, at the age of 86)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.