On This Day - October 12
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Saturday | $22,137,778 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Saturday | $18,461,329 | $274,092,705 |
| 2019 | The Addams Family | Saturday | $11,761,776 | $97,864,733 |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Saturday | $10,450,283 | $107,136,417 |
| 2018 | Venom | Friday | $9,775,629 | $213,511,408 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | Friday | $8,544,865 | $215,288,866 |
| 2019 | Gemini Man | Saturday | $7,740,692 | $48,546,770 |
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Friday | $7,418,231 | $55,204,525 |
| 2012 | Sinister | Friday | $7,416,439 | $48,086,903 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Saturday | $7,415,415 | $92,955,420 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Friday | $7,418,231 | $55,204,525 |
| 2012 | Sinister | Friday | $7,416,439 | $48,086,903 |
| 2012 | Argo | Friday | $5,891,522 | $136,025,503 |
| 2018 | First Man | Friday | $5,783,310 | $44,936,545 |
| 2018 | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Friday | $4,820,864 | $46,697,321 |
| 2007 | We Own the Night | Friday | $3,791,874 | $28,563,179 |
| 2001 | Bandits | Friday | $3,660,000 | $41,523,271 |
| 2012 | Here Comes the Boom | Friday | $3,596,217 | $45,290,318 |
| 2001 | Corky Romano | Friday | $3,147,000 | $23,978,402 |
| 2018 | Bad Times at the El Royale | Friday | $2,810,478 | $17,839,115 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 12.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | $55,861,403 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $43,188,256 | $274,092,705 |
| 2018 | Venom | $35,006,107 | $213,511,408 |
| 2019 | The Addams Family | $30,300,007 | $97,864,733 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | $28,445,205 | $215,288,866 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | $26,406,134 | $167,767,189 |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | $25,718,314 | $107,136,417 |
| 2014 | Dracula Untold | $23,514,615 | $55,991,880 |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $22,089,322 | $70,098,138 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | $21,873,127 | $139,854,287 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Arthur Space (1908, died on January 13, 1983 at the age of 74), Kenneth Griffith (1921, turned 103 this year), Antonia Rey (1926, died on February 21, 2019 at the age of 92), Dick Gregory (1932, died on August 19, 2017 at the age of 84), Luciano Pavarotti (1935, died on September 6, 2007 at the age of 71), Lin Shaye (1943, turned 81 this year), Aurore Clement (1945, turned 79 this year), Richard Price (1949, turned 75 this year), Robin Askwith (1950, turned 74 this year), David Threlfall (1953, turned 71 this year), Massimo Ghini (1954, turned 70 this year), Clementine Celarie (1957, turned 67 this year), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960, turned 64 this year), Deborah Foreman (1962, turned 62 this year), Dave Legeno (1963, died on July 6, 2014 at the age of 50), Satoshi Kon (1963, died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46), Satoshi Kon (1963, died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46), JoAnn Willette (1963, turned 61 this year), Jane McAlevey (1964, died on July 6, 2024 at the age of 59), Hugh Jackman (1968, turned 56 this year), Todd Babcock (1969, turned 55 this year), Kirk Cameron (1970, turned 54 this year), Lala Sloatman (1970, turned 54 this year), Pilar Castro (1970, turned 54 this year), Sonke Mohring (1972, turned 52 this year), Joseph Kahn (1972, turned 52 this year), Kate Beahan (1974, turned 50 this year), Tom Guiry (1981, turned 43 this year), Brian J. Smith (1981, turned 43 this year), Tony Cavalero (1983, turned 41 this year), Tyler Blackburn (1986, turned 38 this year), Rafal Zawierucha (1986, turned 38 this year), Eleanor Columbus (1989, turned 35 this year), Josh Hutcherson (1992, turned 32 this year), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (1999, turned 25 this year), Raymond Ochoa (2001, turned 23 this year), Iris Apatow (2002, turned 22 this year)
Died on this day in history: Howard Sackler (1982, at the age of 52), Jay Ward (1989, at the age of 69), Regis Toomey (1991, at the age of 93), Leon Ames (1993, at the age of 91), Wilt Chamberlain (1999, at the age of 63), Lonny Chapman (2007, at the age of 87), Joan Leslie (2015, at the age of 90), Thomas Mikal Ford (2016, at the age of 52), Max Fairchild (2017, at the age of 71), Conchata Ferrell (2020, at the age of 77), Brian Goldner (2021, at the age of 58), Lara Parker (2023, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.