On This Day - November 23
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Saturday | $52,619,106 | $424,668,047 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Saturday | $50,041,031 | $477,373,578 |
| 2024 | Wicked | Saturday | $35,492,555 | $473,231,120 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Sunday | $25,851,819 | $337,135,885 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Friday | $22,987,000 | $317,871,467 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | Friday | $21,711,098 | $201,091,711 |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | Saturday | $19,079,622 | $172,438,016 |
| 2002 | Die Another Day | Saturday | $19,045,657 | $160,942,139 |
| 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Saturday | $18,706,328 | $263,581,232 |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | Friday | $17,546,033 | $292,914,737 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Moana | Wednesday | $15,519,234 | $248,757,044 |
| 2011 | The Muppets | Wednesday | $6,510,912 | $88,625,922 |
| 2005 | Rent | Wednesday | $4,751,680 | $29,077,547 |
| 2022 | Strange World | Wednesday | $4,192,614 | $39,089,002 |
| 2005 | Yours, Mine and Ours | Wednesday | $3,181,912 | $53,359,917 |
| 2016 | Allied | Wednesday | $2,702,288 | $40,098,064 |
| 2011 | Arthur Christmas | Wednesday | $2,389,269 | $46,462,469 |
| 2005 | Just Friends | Wednesday | $2,000,000 | $32,596,916 |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Wednesday | $2,000,000 | $15,000,000 |
| 2022 | Devotion | Wednesday | $1,825,172 | $20,511,938 |
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 23.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $158,074,286 | $424,668,047 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | $130,263,358 | $477,373,578 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | $121,897,634 | $337,135,885 |
| 2024 | Wicked | $112,508,890 | $473,231,120 |
| 2008 | Twilight | $69,637,740 | $194,318,433 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $57,487,755 | $317,871,467 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | $56,237,634 | $201,091,711 |
| 2024 | Gladiator II | $55,034,715 | $172,438,016 |
| 2002 | Die Another Day | $47,072,040 | $160,942,139 |
| 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 | $43,641,448 | $292,914,737 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Boris Karloff (1887, died on February 2, 1969 at the age of 81), Bess Flowers (1898, died on July 28, 1984 at the age of 85), George O'Hanlon (1912, died on February 11, 1989 at the age of 76), Ellen Drew (1914, died on December 3, 2003 at the age of 89), John Dehner (1915, died on February 4, 1992 at the age of 76), Michael Gough (1916, died on March 17, 2011 at the age of 94), Paul Richards (1924, died on December 10, 1974 at the age of 50), Elmarie Wendel (1928, died on July 21, 2018 at the age of 89), Leo T. Fong (1928, died on February 18, 2022 at the age of 93), Ricou Browning (1930, died on February 27, 2023 at the age of 92), Krzysztof Penderecki (1933, died on March 29, 2020 at the age of 86), Paul Maslansky (1933, died on November 6, 2024 at the age of 90), Robert Towne (1934, died on July 1, 2024 at the age of 89), Franco Nero (1941, turns 84 this year), Susan Anspach (1942, died on April 2, 2018 at the age of 75), Joe Eszterhas (1944, turns 81 this year), James Toback (1944, turns 81 this year), Peter Maloney (1944, turns 81 this year), Assi Dayan (1945, died on May 1, 2014 at the age of 68), Bruce Vilanch (1948, turns 77 this year), David Rappaport (1951, died on May 2, 1990 at the age of 38), Dominique Dunne (1959, died on November 4, 1982 at the age of 22), Maxwell Caulfield (1959, turns 66 this year), Rodrigo Prieto (1965, turns 60 this year), Vincent Cassel (1966, turns 59 this year), Michelle Gomez (1966, turns 59 this year), Sally Richardson-Whitfield (1967, turns 58 this year), Brennan Brown (1968, turns 57 this year), Oded Fehr (1970, turns 55 this year), Chris Hardwick (1971, turns 54 this year), Page Kennedy (1976, turns 49 this year), Kayvan Novak (1978, turns 47 this year), Destin Daniel Cretton (1978, turns 47 this year), Kelly Brook (1979, turns 46 this year), Jonathan Sadowski (1979, turns 46 this year), Tim Chiou (1979, turns 46 this year), Lucas Grabeel (1984, turns 41 this year), Nicole Polizzi (1987, turns 38 this year), Miley Cyrus (1992, turns 33 this year), Austin Majors (1995, turns 30 this year), Lia Marie Johnson (1996, turns 29 this year), Chloe Coleman (2008, turns 17 this year), Diana Quick (2020, turns 5 this year)
Died on this day in history: Claire Dodd (1973, at the age of 61), Yasuzô Masumura (1986, at the age of 62), Roald Dahl (1990, at the age of 74), Klaus Kinski (1991, at the age of 65), Louis Malle (1995, at the age of 63), Philippe Noiret (2006, at the age of 76), Larry Hagman (2012, at the age of 81), Andrew Sachs (2016, at the age of 86), Anthony Harvey (2017, at the age of 87), Nicolas Roeg (2018, at the age of 90), José Barahona (2024, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.