On This Day - November 20
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $296,623,634 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | Saturday | $38,226,254 | $297,414,693 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | Sunday | $26,450,532 | $281,287,133 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Sunday | $25,848,463 | $291,147,424 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Sunday | $19,710,460 | $453,829,060 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Sunday | $18,493,911 | $234,037,575 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Saturday | $16,437,835 | $129,360,575 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | Saturday | $14,588,162 | $173,005,002 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | Saturday | $14,220,000 | $126,930,660 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 20.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | Friday | $72,703,754 | $296,623,634 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Friday | $45,579,056 | $281,723,902 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Friday | $11,038,423 | $255,959,475 |
| 1998 | The Rugrats Movie | Friday | $6,730,000 | $100,494,685 |
| 1998 | Enemy of the State | Friday | $6,360,000 | $111,549,836 |
| 2015 | The Night Before | Friday | $3,561,439 | $43,035,725 |
| 2009 | Planet 51 | Friday | $3,185,083 | $42,194,060 |
| 2015 | Secret in Their Eyes | Friday | $2,331,446 | $20,180,155 |
| 1998 | Celebrity | Friday | $515,000 | $5,078,660 |
| 2009 | Kurbaan | Friday | $127,809 | $754,269 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was November 20.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | $142,839,137 | $296,623,634 |
| 2011 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 | $138,122,261 | $281,287,133 |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I | $125,017,372 | $297,414,693 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $102,685,961 | $291,147,424 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | $102,665,981 | $281,723,902 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | $74,403,387 | $234,037,575 |
| 2022 | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | $66,482,266 | $453,829,060 |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | $44,008,406 | $129,360,575 |
| 1999 | The World is Not Enough | $35,519,007 | $126,930,660 |
| 2004 | National Treasure | $35,142,554 | $173,005,002 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Warner Bros. Film, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Robert Armstrong (1890, died on April 20, 1973 at the age of 82), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907, died on January 12, 1977 at the age of 69), Kon Ichikawa (1915, died on February 13, 2008 at the age of 92), Evelyn Keyes (1916, died on July 4, 2008 at the age of 91), Phyllis Thaxter (1919, turns 106 this year), Kaye Ballard (1925, died on January 21, 2019 at the age of 93), Estelle Parsons (1927, turns 98 this year), Jerry Hardin (1929, turns 96 this year), Richard Dawson (1932, died on June 2, 2012 at the age of 79), Bob Einstein (1942, died on January 2, 2019 at the age of 76), Joseph Biden (1942, turns 83 this year), Veronica Hamel (1943, turns 82 this year), Mie Hama (1943, turns 82 this year), Samuel E. Wright (1946, died on May 24, 2021 at the age of 74), Rodger Bumpass (1951, turns 74 this year), Bo Derek (1956, turns 69 this year), Gregg Champion (1956, turns 69 this year), Sean Young (1959, turns 66 this year), Rajkumar Hirani (1962, turns 63 this year), Ming-Na Wen (1963, turns 62 this year), Ned Vaughn (1964, turns 61 this year), Richard Masur (1969, turns 56 this year), Callie Thorne (1969, turns 56 this year), Angelica Bridges (1970, turns 55 this year), Joel McHale (1971, turns 54 this year), Melissa McMeekin (1972, turns 53 this year), Marisa Ryan (1974, turns 51 this year), David O'Donnell (1974, turns 51 this year), Florian David Fitz (1974, turns 51 this year), Laura Harris (1976, turns 49 this year), Nadine Velazquez (1978, turns 47 this year), Jacob Pitts (1979, turns 46 this year), Andrea Riseborough (1981, turns 44 this year), Margo Stilley (1982, turns 43 this year), Halley Feiffer (1984, turns 41 this year), Dan Byrd (1985, turns 40 this year), Ashley Fink (1986, turns 39 this year), Kingsley Ben-Adir (1986, turns 39 this year), Amelia Rose Blaire (1987, turns 38 this year), Rhys Wakefield (1988, turns 37 this year), Gabrielle Stone (1988, turns 37 this year), Cody Linley (1989, turns 36 this year), Sergei Polunin (1989, turns 36 this year), Madisyn Shipman (2002, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Richard Loo (1983, at the age of 80), Emile Ardolino (1993, at the age of 50), Nora Denney (2005, at the age of 78), Robert Altman (2006, at the age of 81), William Trevor (2016, at the age of 88), Robert Blythe (2018, at the age of 71), Michael J. Pollard (2019, at the age of 80), Fábio Barreto (2019, at the age of 62), Peter Aykroyd (2021, at the age of 66), Gray Frederickson (2022, at the age of 85), Andy Paley (2024, at the age of 71)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.