On This Day - December 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Thursday | $27,395,725 | $936,662,225 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Tuesday | $20,270,474 | $515,202,542 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Friday | $19,655,506 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Sunday | $17,629,999 | $620,181,382 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saturday | $15,308,508 | $533,539,991 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Saturday | $14,869,288 | $684,075,767 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Thursday | $11,150,998 | $785,221,649 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Monday | $10,851,928 | $335,061,807 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Sunday | $9,049,833 | $404,508,916 |
| 2016 | Sing | Saturday | $7,915,035 | $270,329,045 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Samâ uôzu | Friday | $531 | $78,182 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $84,548,505 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | $71,565,498 | $620,181,382 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $64,033,768 | $533,539,991 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $63,338,220 | $684,075,767 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | $46,120,980 | $279,167,575 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $36,169,328 | $404,508,916 |
| 2016 | Sing | $35,258,145 | $270,329,045 |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | $30,833,665 | $148,438,600 |
| 2006 | Night at the Museum | $30,433,781 | $250,863,268 |
| 2011 | Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol | $29,556,629 | $209,397,903 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Michael Curtiz (1886, died on April 11, 1962 at the age of 75), Joseph Cornell (1903, died on December 29, 1972 at the age of 69), Howard Hughes (1905, died on April 5, 1976 at the age of 70), Janet Carroll (1910, died on May 22, 2012 at the age of 101), Ava Gardner (1922, died on December 24, 1922 at the age of 0), Norman Rossington (1924, died on May 21, 1999 at the age of 74), Robert Ridgely (1931, turns 93 this year), Jill Bennett (1931, turns 93 this year), Philippe Nahon (1938, died on April 19, 2020 at the age of 81), Sharon Farrell (1940, turns 84 this year), Nicholas Meyer (1945, turns 79 this year), Edwige Fenech (1948, turns 76 this year), Timothy Carhart (1953, turns 71 this year), Julius Tennon (1953, turns 71 this year), Clarence Gilyard Jr. (1955, died on November 28, 2022 at the age of 66), Grand L Bush (1955, turns 69 this year), Anil Kapoor (1956, turns 68 this year), Stephanie Hodge (1956, turns 68 this year), Scott Spiegel (1957, turns 67 this year), Lee Daniels (1959, turns 65 this year), Wade Williams (1961, turns 63 this year), Bill Siegel (1962, died on December 11, 2018 at the age of 55), Gavin O’Connor (1963, turns 61 this year), Mark Valley (1964, turns 60 this year), Diedrich Bader (1966, turns 58 this year), Randy J. Goodwin (1967, turns 57 this year), Nick Love (1969, turns 55 this year), Pernille Fischer Christensen (1969, turns 55 this year), Amaury Nolasco (1970, turns 54 this year), Keith Silverstein (1970, turns 54 this year), Breck Eisner (1970, turns 54 this year), Jeremy Davidson (1971, turns 53 this year), Ricky Martin (1971, turns 53 this year), Stephenie Meyer (1973, turns 51 this year), Matt Passmore (1973, turns 51 this year), J.D. Walsh (1974, turns 50 this year), Ryan Seacrest (1974, turns 50 this year), Thure Lindhardt (1974, turns 50 this year), Michael Raymond-James (1977, turns 47 this year), Ben Geurens (1979, turns 45 this year), Robert Schwartzman (1982, turns 42 this year), Austin Stowell (1984, turns 40 this year), Laura Aikman (1985, turns 39 this year), Abigail Klein (1988, turns 36 this year), Louis Tomlinson (1991, turns 33 this year), Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991, turns 33 this year), Millie Brady (1993, turns 31 this year)
Died on this day in history: Ava Gardner (1922, at the age of 0), Peter Lawford (1984, at the age of 61), Ian Hendry (1984, at the age of 53), Rossano Brazzi (1994, at the age of 78), Toshiro Mifune (1997, at the age of 77), Jack Klugman (2012, at the age of 90), Charles Durning (2012, at the age of 89), Richard Adams (2016, at the age of 96), Liz Smith (2016, at the age of 95), Heather Menzies (2017, at the age of 68), Patrice Martinez (2018, at the age of 55), Allee Willis (2019, at the age of 72), Tunisha Sharma (2022, at the age of 20), Catherine Cyran (2022, at the age of 20), Epigmenio Rodríguez (2023, at the age of 70), David Leland (2024, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.