On This Day - December 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Saturday | $11,980,000 | $262,425,630 |
| 2017 | Coco | Saturday | $11,867,693 | $210,460,015 |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | Saturday | $8,227,390 | $198,000,317 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | Sunday | $7,909,049 | $201,091,711 |
| 2017 | Justice League | Saturday | $7,439,921 | $229,024,295 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Sunday | $7,121,000 | $317,871,467 |
| 2006 | Casino Royale | Saturday | $6,824,841 | $167,365,000 |
| 2025 | Zootopia 2 | Tuesday | $6,687,449 | $232,661,494 |
| 2016 | Moana | Friday | $6,544,643 | $248,757,044 |
| 2000 | Unbreakable | Saturday | $6,425,000 | $94,999,143 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Violent Night | Friday | $4,869,770 | $50,057,405 |
| 2005 | Aeon Flux | Friday | $4,669,229 | $25,857,987 |
| 2016 | Incarnate | Friday | $915,217 | $4,799,774 |
| 2022 | The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (映画 五等分の花嫁) | Friday | $266,000 | $502,000 |
| 2022 | HIT: The 2nd Case | Friday | $230,000 | $600,000 |
| 2016 | Believe | Friday | $168,900 | $890,303 |
| 2011 | Shame | Friday | $110,476 | $4,002,293 |
| 2016 | Jackie | Friday | $90,742 | $13,960,394 |
| 2022 | Spoiler Alert | Friday | $45,841 | $1,384,003 |
| 2011 | Pastorela | Friday | $23,784 | $161,194 |
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 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Moana | $28,270,989 | $248,757,044 |
| 2017 | Coco | $27,533,304 | $210,460,015 |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | $27,096,630 | $262,425,630 |
| 2018 | Ralph Breaks The Internet | $25,566,945 | $201,091,711 |
| 2001 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | $23,642,327 | $317,871,467 |
| 2023 | RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ | $21,801,216 | $33,889,684 |
| 1995 | Toy Story | $20,164,662 | $199,242,025 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $19,878,136 | $291,147,424 |
| 2001 | Behind Enemy Lines | $18,736,133 | $58,855,732 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $18,118,111 | $234,037,575 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Warren William (1894, died on September 24, 1948 at the age of 53), Donald Woods (1906, died on March 5, 1998 at the age of 91), Bill Erwin (1914, died on December 29, 2010 at the age of 96), Maria Callas (1923, died on September 16, 1977 at the age of 53), Jonathan Frid (1924, died on April 14, 2012 at the age of 87), Vilgot Sjöman (1924, died on April 9, 2006 at the age of 81), Julie Harris (1925, died on August 24, 2013 at the age of 87), Dan Jenkins (1928, died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 90), Brian Phelan (1934, died on May 29, 2024 at the age of 89), Hy Pyke (1935, turned 90 this year), Jan Burrell (1939, turned 86 this year), Harry Reid (1939, died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 82), Henry Kingi (1943, turned 82 this year), Cathy Lee Crosby (1944, turned 81 this year), Penelope Spheeris (1945, turned 80 this year), Keith Szarabajka (1952, turned 73 this year), Dan Butler (1954, turned 71 this year), Dennis Christopher (1955, turned 70 this year), Steven Bauer (1956, turned 69 this year), Alexander Kuznetsov (1959, died on June 6, 2019 at the age of 59), Boman Irani (1959, turned 66 this year), Brendan Coyle (1963, turned 62 this year), Grant Masters (1964, turned 61 this year), Lucy Alexis Liu (1968, turned 57 this year), Rena Sofer (1968, turned 57 this year), Charlotte Munck (1969, turned 56 this year), Joe Lo Truglio (1970, turned 55 this year), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1971, turned 54 this year), Suzy Nakamura (1973, turned 52 this year), François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Sadie Alexandru (1977, turned 48 this year), Nelly Furtado (1978, turned 47 this year), Yvonne Catterfeld (1979, turned 46 this year), Britney Spears (1981, turned 44 this year), Eric Jungmann (1981, turned 44 this year), Jana Kramer (1983, turned 42 this year), Colleen Rennison (1987, turned 38 this year), Alfie Enoch (1988, turned 37 this year), Cassie Steele (1989, turned 36 this year), Dylan McLaughlin (1993, turned 32 this year), Annalise Basso (1998, turned 27 this year), Amber Frank (1998, turned 27 this year), Fred Hechinger (1999, turned 26 this year), Dusan Brown (2001, turned 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Marty Feldman (1982, at the age of 48), Robert Cummings (1990, at the age of 80), Will McMillan (2015, at the age of 71), Gabriele Ferzetti (2015, at the age of 90), Anthony Valentine (2015, at the age of 76), Joe Smith (2019, at the age of 91), Rafer Johnson (2020, at the age of 85), Franco Giraldi (2020, at the age of 89), Warren Berlinger (2020, at the age of 83), Pamela Tiffin (2020, at the age of 84), Al Strobel (2022, at the age of 84), Concha Velasco (2023, at the age of 84), David Matalon (2025, at the age of 82)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.