On This Day - November 20
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $297,214,449 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | Saturday | $38,226,254 | $297,414,693 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | Sunday | $26,450,532 | $281,791,883 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Sunday | $25,848,463 | $291,147,424 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Sunday | $19,710,460 | $453,829,060 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Sunday | $18,493,911 | $234,037,575 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Saturday | $16,437,835 | $129,360,575 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | Saturday | $14,588,162 | $173,005,002 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | Saturday | $14,220,000 | $126,930,660 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $297,214,449 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Friday | $11,038,423 | $255,959,475 |
| 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Friday | $6,730,000 | $100,494,685 |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Friday | $6,360,000 | $111,549,836 |
| 2015 | The Night Before | Friday | $3,561,439 | $43,035,725 |
| 2009 | Planet 51 | Friday | $3,185,083 | $42,194,060 |
| 2015 | Secret in Their Eyes | Friday | $2,331,446 | $20,180,155 |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Friday | $515,000 | $5,078,660 |
| 2009 | Kurbaan | Friday | $127,809 | $754,269 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was November 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | $142,839,137 | $297,214,449 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $138,122,261 | $281,791,883 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | $125,017,372 | $297,414,693 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $102,685,961 | $291,147,424 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | $102,665,981 | $281,723,902 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $74,403,387 | $234,037,575 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | $66,482,266 | $453,829,060 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | $44,008,406 | $129,360,575 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | $35,519,007 | $126,930,660 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | $35,142,554 | $173,005,002 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Warner Bros. Film, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Robert Armstrong (1890, died on April 20, 1973 at the age of 82), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907, died on January 12, 1977 at the age of 69), Kon Ichikawa (1915, died on February 13, 2008 at the age of 92), Evelyn Keyes (1916, died on July 4, 2008 at the age of 91), Phyllis Thaxter (1919, turned 106 this year), Kaye Ballard (1925, died on January 21, 2019 at the age of 93), Estelle Parsons (1927, turned 98 this year), Jerry Hardin (1929, turned 96 this year), Richard Dawson (1932, died on June 2, 2012 at the age of 79), Bob Einstein (1942, died on January 2, 2019 at the age of 76), Joseph Biden (1942, turned 83 this year), Veronica Hamel (1943, turned 82 this year), Mie Hama (1943, turned 82 this year), Samuel E. Wright (1946, died on May 24, 2021 at the age of 74), Rodger Bumpass (1951, turned 74 this year), Bo Derek (1956, turned 69 this year), Gregg Champion (1956, turned 69 this year), Sean Young (1959, turned 66 this year), Rajkumar Hirani (1962, turned 63 this year), Ming-Na Wen (1963, turned 62 this year), Ned Vaughn (1964, turned 61 this year), Richard Masur (1969, turned 56 this year), Callie Thorne (1969, turned 56 this year), Angelica Bridges (1970, turned 55 this year), Joel McHale (1971, turned 54 this year), Melissa McMeekin (1972, turned 53 this year), Marisa Ryan (1974, turned 51 this year), David O'Donnell (1974, turned 51 this year), Florian David Fitz (1974, turned 51 this year), Laura Harris (1976, turned 49 this year), Nadine Velazquez (1978, turned 47 this year), Jacob Pitts (1979, turned 46 this year), Andrea Riseborough (1981, turned 44 this year), Margo Stilley (1982, turned 43 this year), Halley Feiffer (1984, turned 41 this year), Dan Byrd (1985, turned 40 this year), Ashley Fink (1986, turned 39 this year), Kingsley Ben-Adir (1986, turned 39 this year), Amelia Rose Blaire (1987, turned 38 this year), Rhys Wakefield (1988, turned 37 this year), Gabrielle Stone (1988, turned 37 this year), Cody Linley (1989, turned 36 this year), Sergei Polunin (1989, turned 36 this year), Madisyn Shipman (2002, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Richard Loo (1983, at the age of 80), Emile Ardolino (1993, at the age of 50), Nora Denney (2005, at the age of 78), Robert Altman (2006, at the age of 81), William Trevor (2016, at the age of 88), Robert Blythe (2018, at the age of 71), Michael J. Pollard (2019, at the age of 80), Fábio Barreto (2019, at the age of 62), Peter Aykroyd (2021, at the age of 66), Gray Frederickson (2022, at the age of 85), Andy Paley (2024, at the age of 71)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.