On This Day - December 22
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Sunday | $40,301,011 | $515,202,542 |
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Tuesday | $37,361,729 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Wednesday | $27,846,311 | $814,115,070 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Friday | $24,763,084 | $620,181,382 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Saturday | $21,346,634 | $335,061,807 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Sunday | $20,031,131 | $342,548,984 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Saturday | $17,025,000 | $315,544,750 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Thursday | $16,773,075 | $533,539,991 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Tuesday | $16,086,461 | $785,221,649 |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | Saturday | $15,344,648 | $219,961,501 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Friday | $13,681,754 | $124,481,226 |
| 2006 | Night at the Museum | Friday | $12,134,015 | $250,863,268 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | Wednesday | $12,066,740 | $279,167,575 |
| 2000 | Cast Away | Friday | $11,755,000 | $233,632,142 |
| 2017 | Pitch Perfect 3 | Friday | $10,625,150 | $104,897,530 |
| 2021 | Sing 2 | Wednesday | $8,134,635 | $162,790,990 |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | Wednesday | $7,142,775 | $148,438,600 |
| 2021 | The Matrix Resurrections | Wednesday | $6,371,768 | $40,463,197 |
| 2023 | Migration | Friday | $5,747,620 | $127,306,285 |
| 2010 | True Grit | Wednesday | $5,539,010 | $171,243,005 |
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 22.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | $177,383,864 | $515,202,542 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | $71,565,498 | $620,181,382 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | $67,873,522 | $335,061,807 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $62,007,528 | $342,548,984 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $47,211,490 | $315,544,750 |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | $44,783,772 | $219,961,501 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $36,888,365 | $303,003,568 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $36,169,328 | $404,508,916 |
| 2007 | I am Legend | $33,503,201 | $256,393,010 |
| 2013 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | $31,505,278 | $258,241,522 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Gustaf Gründgens (1899, died on October 7, 1963 at the age of 63), Pierre Brasseur (1905, died on August 16, 1972 at the age of 66), Peggy Ashcroft (1907, died on June 14, 1991 at the age of 83), Patricia Hayes (1909, died on September 19, 1998 at the age of 88), Freddie Francis (1917, died on March 17, 2007 at the age of 89), Ruth Roman (1922, died on September 9, 1999 at the age of 76), Károly Makk (1925, died on August 30, 2017 at the age of 91), Hector Elizondo (1936, turns 88 this year), Elizabeth James (1944, turns 80 this year), Lynne Thigpen (1948, died on March 12, 2003 at the age of 54), Robin Gibb (1949, died on May 20, 2012 at the age of 62), Maurice Gibb (1949, died on January 12, 2003 at the age of 53), Graham Beckel (1949, turns 75 this year), Franc Luz (1950, turns 74 this year), Dan Martin (1951, turns 73 this year), Jay Brazeau (1953, turns 71 this year), Gregor Fisher (1953, turns 71 this year), Hugh Quarshie (1954, turns 70 this year), Philippe Eidel (1956, died on September 6, 2018 at the age of 61), David Heavener (1958, turns 66 this year), Lenny von Dohlen (1958, turns 66 this year), Ralph Fiennes (1962, turns 62 this year), David S. Goyer (1965, turns 59 this year), Sergi Lopez (1965, turns 59 this year), Chiara Caselli (1967, turns 57 this year), Dina Meyer (1968, turns 56 this year), Pat Mastroianni (1971, turns 53 this year), Vanessa Paradis (1972, turns 52 this year), Poorna Jagannathan (1972, turns 52 this year), Heather Donahue (1974, turns 50 this year), Omar J. Dorsey (1975, turns 49 this year), Joanne Kelly (1978, turns 46 this year), Darri Ingolfsson (1979, turns 45 this year), Chris Carmack (1980, turns 44 this year), Brooke Nevin (1982, turns 42 this year), Joe Dinicol (1983, turns 41 this year), Greg Finley (1984, turns 40 this year), Anna Prochniak (1988, turns 36 this year), Jordin Sparks (1989, turns 35 this year), Logan Huffman (1989, turns 35 this year), Ashton Moio (1991, turns 33 this year), Shioli Kutsuna (1992, turns 32 this year), Shioli Kutsuna (1992, turns 32 this year), Meghan Trainor (1993, turns 31 this year), G Hannelius (1998, turns 26 this year), Neel Sethi (2003, turns 21 this year), Madeleine McGraw (2008, turns 16 this year)
Died on this day in history: Darryl F. Zanuck (1979, at the age of 77), Don DeFore (1993, at the age of 80), Alexander Mackendrick (1993, at the age of 81), Butterfly McQueen (1995, at the age of 84), Michelle Thomas (1998, at the age of 30), William Duell (2011, at the age of 88), Christine Cavanaugh (2014, at the age of 51), Joseph Sargent (2014, at the age of 89), Carol Burns (2015, at the age of 68), Brooke McCarter (2015, at the age of 52), Ram Dass (2019, at the age of 88), David Foster (2019, at the age of 89), Claude Brasseur (2020, at the age of 84), Ronan Vibert (2022, at the age of 58)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.