On This Day - December 13
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Friday | $31,190,587 | $258,241,522 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Friday | $19,722,984 | $316,831,246 |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | Saturday | $14,200,000 | $101,363,301 |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Saturday | $11,920,581 | $79,366,978 |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Saturday | $9,246,422 | $65,014,513 |
| 2002 | Star Trek: Nemesis | Friday | $7,732,988 | $43,254,409 |
| 2003 | Something’s Gotta Give | Saturday | $7,026,916 | $124,685,242 |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | Sunday | $6,663,537 | $104,400,899 |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Friday | $6,572,968 | $93,932,896 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Saturday | $6,028,707 | $111,110,575 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 13.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Friday | $31,190,587 | $258,241,522 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Friday | $19,722,984 | $316,831,246 |
| 2002 | Star Trek: Nemesis | Friday | $7,732,988 | $43,254,409 |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Friday | $6,572,968 | $93,932,896 |
| 2013 | Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas | Friday | $5,748,584 | $52,543,354 |
| 2024 | Kraven the Hunter | Friday | $4,801,608 | $25,026,310 |
| 2002 | Drumline | Friday | $4,125,718 | $56,398,162 |
| 2002 | The Hot Chick | Friday | $2,598,364 | $35,081,550 |
| 2024 | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Friday | $2,013,310 | $9,158,572 |
| 2019 | Black Christmas | Friday | $1,809,875 | $10,429,730 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was December 13.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | $73,645,197 | $258,241,522 |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | $59,251,543 | $316,831,246 |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | $32,926,342 | $101,363,301 |
| 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | $30,480,153 | $79,366,978 |
| 2024 | Moana 2 | $26,499,368 | $460,405,297 |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | $24,208,916 | $104,400,899 |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | $24,115,934 | $65,014,513 |
| 2024 | Wicked | $22,649,405 | $474,436,385 |
| 2013 | Frozen | $22,568,138 | $400,953,009 |
| 1998 | Star Trek: Insurrection | $22,052,836 | $70,187,658 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Van Heflin (1908, died on July 23, 1971 at the age of 62), Sol Saks (1910, died on April 16, 2011 at the age of 100), Curd Jurgens (1915, turns 110 this year), Don Taylor (1920, died on December 29, 1998 at the age of 78), Dick Van Dyke (1925, turns 100 this year), Genevieve Page (1927, died on February 14, 2025 at the age of 97), Christopher Plummer (1929, died on February 5, 2021 at the age of 91), Robert Prosky (1930, died on December 8, 2008 at the age of 77), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932, turns 93 this year), Richard D. Zanuck (1934, died on July 13, 2012 at the age of 77), Herman Cain (1945, died on July 30, 2020 at the age of 74), Kathy Garver (1945, turns 80 this year), Darlene Cates (1947, died on March 26, 2017 at the age of 69), Ted Nugent (1948, turns 77 this year), Robert Lindsay (1949, turns 76 this year), Paula Wilcox (1949, turns 76 this year), Wendie Malick (1950, turns 75 this year), Afemo Omilami (1950, turns 75 this year), Juan Fernandez (1956, turns 69 this year), Steve Buscemi (1957, turns 68 this year), Billy Van Zandt (1957, turns 68 this year), Amy Stoch (1958, turns 67 this year), Lynn-Holly Johnson (1958, turns 67 this year), Rusty Cundieff (1960, turns 65 this year), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961, turns 64 this year), NeNe Leakes (1966, turns 59 this year), Jamie Foxx (1967, turns 58 this year), Scott Stuber (1968, turns 57 this year), Tony Curran (1969, turns 56 this year), Bart Johnson (1970, turns 55 this year), Vasco Nunes (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Richard Hillman (1974, turns 51 this year), James Kyson (1975, turns 50 this year), Charlie Talbert (1978, turns 47 this year), Tanya van Graan (1983, turns 42 this year), Satya Bhabha (1983, turns 42 this year), Laurence Leboeuf (1985, turns 40 this year), Michael Socha (1987, turns 38 this year), Taylor Swift (1989, turns 36 this year), Emily Peachey (1990, turns 35 this year)
Died on this day in history: Tim Moore (1958, at the age of 71), Jon Hall (1979, at the age of 64), Floyd Red Crow Westerman (2007, at the age of 71), Alan Thicke (2016, at the age of 69), Bruce Gray (2017, at the age of 81), Martin Ransohoff (2017, at the age of 90), Sergey Solovyov (2021, at the age of 77), Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (2022, at the age of 40), Yilmaz Atadeniz (2023, at the age of 90), Wolfgang Becker (2024, at the age of 70)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.