On This Day - December 26
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $56,731,532 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $33,283,250 | $814,811,535 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Monday | $32,270,430 | $684,075,767 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Monday | $32,085,637 | $533,539,991 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Thursday | $30,586,950 | $515,202,542 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Saturday | $28,274,406 | $785,221,649 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Tuesday | $27,734,356 | $620,181,382 |
| 2009 | Sherlock Holmes | Saturday | $21,837,175 | $209,028,679 |
| 2009 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Saturday | $19,842,031 | $219,614,612 |
| 2016 | Sing | Monday | $19,673,485 | $270,329,045 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Wednesday | $67,951 | $40,222,514 |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road | Friday | $66,648 | $22,951,340 |
| 2021 | Memoria | Sunday | $6,797 | $52,656 |
| 2022 | beurokeo (브로커) | Monday | $3,265 | $1,046,898 |
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 26.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $149,202,860 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $84,548,505 | $814,811,535 |
| 2009 | Avatar | $75,617,133 | $785,221,649 |
| 2009 | Sherlock Holmes | $62,304,277 | $209,028,679 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $50,598,104 | $381,472,917 |
| 2009 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $48,875,415 | $219,614,612 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | $46,120,980 | $279,167,575 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $40,921,395 | $255,119,788 |
| 2015 | Daddy’s Home | $38,740,203 | $150,357,137 |
| 2008 | Marley & Me | $36,357,586 | $143,153,751 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Vladimir Sokoloff (1889, died on February 15, 1962 at the age of 72), Richard Widmark (1914, turns 110 this year), Steve Allen (1921, died on October 30, 2000 at the age of 78), Alan King (1927, died on May 9, 2004 at the age of 76), Bob Brooks (1927, died on October 31, 2012 at the age of 84), Chuck Hicks (1927, turns 97 this year), Denis Quilley (1927, died on October 5, 2003 at the age of 75), Ivo Niederle (1929, died on January 8, 2021 at the age of 91), Donald Moffat (1930, died on December 20, 2018 at the age of 87), Caroll Spinney (1933, died on December 8, 2019 at the age of 85), Matt Zimmerman (1934, died on June 9, 2022 at the age of 87), Fred Schepisi (1939, turns 85 this year), Jane Lapotaire (1944, turns 80 this year), John Walsh (1945, turns 79 this year), Steve Bisley (1951, turns 73 this year), Terry Michos (1953, turns 71 this year), Tony Rosato (1954, died on January 10, 2017 at the age of 62), David Sedaris (1956, turns 68 this year), Temuera Morrison (1960, turns 64 this year), John Lynch (1961, turns 63 this year), Tahnee Welch (1961, turns 63 this year), Nadia Dajani (1965, turns 59 this year), Sandra Taylor (1966, turns 58 this year), Bill Lawrence (1968, turns 56 this year), Tricia Leigh Fisher (1968, turns 56 this year), Jared Leto (1971, turns 53 this year), Alexandra Rapaport (1971, turns 53 this year), Shane Meadows (1972, turns 52 this year), Joshua John Miller (1974, turns 50 this year), Josie Ho (1974, turns 50 this year), Hunter Carson (1975, turns 49 this year), Graham Shiels (1975, turns 49 this year), David Lowery (1980, turns 44 this year), Nikolai Nikolaeff (1981, turns 43 this year), Shun Oguri (1982, turns 42 this year), Beth Behrs (1985, turns 39 this year), Kit Harington (1986, turns 38 this year), Jacqueline Steiger (1986, turns 38 this year), Eden Sher (1991, turns 33 this year), Samantha Boscarino (1994, turns 30 this year), Zach Mills (1995, turns 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Howard Hawks (1977, at the age of 81), Elsa Lanchester (1986, at the age of 84), Jeff Morrow (1993, at the age of 86), Jason Robards (2000, at the age of 78), Nigel Hawthorne (2001, at the age of 72), Vincent Schiavelli (2005, at the age of 57), Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. (2011, at the age of 71), Marta Eggerth (2013, at the age of 101), Ricky Harris (2016, at the age of 51), Barbara Tarbuck (2016, at the age of 74), Frank Adonis (2018, at the age of 83), Jean-Marc Vallee (2021, at the age of 58), Desmond Tutu (2021, at the age of 90), Tom Smothers (2023, at the age of 86), Richard Romanus (2023, at the age of 78)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.