On This Day - January 9
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Avatar | Saturday | $21,269,537 | $785,221,649 |
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $19,204,072 | $936,662,225 |
| 2016 | The Revenant | Saturday | $15,275,109 | $183,637,894 |
| 2015 | Taken 3 | Friday | $14,880,032 | $89,256,424 |
| 2009 | Gran Torino | Friday | $9,631,856 | $148,095,302 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $9,485,183 | $814,115,070 |
| 2009 | The Unborn | Friday | $8,273,070 | $42,670,410 |
| 2009 | Bride Wars | Friday | $8,090,757 | $58,715,510 |
| 2010 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Saturday | $8,049,828 | $219,614,612 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Friday | $7,738,150 | $674,460,013 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Taken 3 | Friday | $14,880,032 | $89,256,424 |
| 2009 | The Unborn | Friday | $8,273,070 | $42,670,410 |
| 2009 | Bride Wars | Friday | $8,090,757 | $58,715,510 |
| 2004 | My Baby's Daddy | Friday | $2,600,000 | $17,321,573 |
| 2004 | Chasing Liberty | Friday | $2,400,000 | $12,189,514 |
| 2009 | Not Easily Broken | Friday | $1,933,066 | $10,572,742 |
| 1998 | Firestorm | Friday | $1,170,000 | $8,123,860 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 9.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Avatar | $50,306,217 | $785,221,649 |
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $42,353,785 | $936,662,225 |
| 2016 | The Revenant | $39,826,840 | $183,637,894 |
| 2015 | Taken 3 | $39,201,657 | $89,256,424 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $32,617,921 | $814,115,070 |
| 2009 | Gran Torino | $29,484,388 | $148,095,302 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $28,716,310 | $674,460,013 |
| 2005 | Meet the Fockers | $28,498,160 | $279,167,575 |
| 2005 | White Noise | $24,113,565 | $56,094,360 |
| 2009 | Bride Wars | $21,058,173 | $58,715,510 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Salvatore Corsitto (1913, turned 111 this year), Anita Louise (1915, died on April 25, 1970 at the age of 55), Fernando Lamas (1916, died on October 8, 1982 at the age of 66), Lee Van Cleef (1925, died on December 16, 1989 at the age of 64), Pat Conway (1931, died on April 24, 1981 at the age of 50), K Callan (1936, turned 88 this year), Susannah York (1939, died on January 15, 2011 at the age of 72), Gary B. Kibbe (1941, died on March 12, 2020 at the age of 79), Scott Walker (1943, died on March 22, 2019 at the age of 76), Kathryn Walker (1943, turned 81 this year), Jimmy Page (1944, turned 80 this year), Harun Farocki (1944, died on July 30, 2014 at the age of 70), John Doman (1945, turned 79 this year), Sandy Martin (1950, turned 74 this year), David Johansen (1950, turned 74 this year), Fiona Mollison (1954, turned 70 this year), J.K. Simmons (1955, turned 69 this year), Imelda Staunton (1956, turned 68 this year), Bob Peterson (1961, turned 63 this year), Scott Klace (1961, turned 63 this year), Candi Milo (1961, turned 63 this year), Kelly Wolf (1962, turned 62 this year), Joely Richardson (1965, turned 59 this year), Rhoda Griffis (1965, turned 59 this year), Dave Matthews (1967, turned 57 this year), Joey Lauren Adams (1968, turned 56 this year), Cesar Gonzalez (1968, died on May 11, 2019 at the age of 51), Marco Sanchez (1970, turned 54 this year), Angela Bettis (1973, turned 51 this year), Farhan Akhtar (1974, turned 50 this year), Omari Hardwick (1974, turned 50 this year), Patrick Sabongui (1975, turned 49 this year), A.J. McLean (1978, turned 46 this year), Joshua Harto (1979, turned 45 this year), Julia Dietze (1981, turned 43 this year), Rona-Lee Shimon (1983, turned 41 this year), Weronika Rosati (1984, turned 40 this year), Nina Dobrev (1989, turned 35 this year), Ashley Argota (1993, turned 31 this year), Nicola Peltz (1995, turned 29 this year), Lauryn McClain (1997, turned 27 this year), Kerris Dorsey (1998, turned 26 this year), Karma Meyer (2007, turned 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: Pierre Fresnay (1975, at the age of 77), Bill Naughton (1992, at the age of 81), Peter Cook (1995, at the age of 57), Peter Yates (2011, at the age of 81), Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (2015, at the age of 88), Angus Scrimm (2016, at the age of 89), Myra Carter (2016, at the age of 86), Terence Marsh (2018, at the age of 86), Verna Bloom (2019, at the age of 80), Stefanos Miltsakakis (2019, at the age of 60), Ivan Passer (2020, at the age of 86), Bob Saget (2022, at the age of 65), Dwayne Hickman (2022, at the age of 87), Melinda Dillon (2023, at the age of 83), Rashid Khan (2024, at the age of 55)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.