On This Day - December 7
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Moana 2 | Saturday | $23,134,944 | $460,405,297 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Saturday | $16,050,532 | $477,373,578 |
| 2024 | Wicked | Saturday | $15,087,045 | $473,231,120 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Saturday | $15,063,237 | $400,953,009 |
| 2001 | Ocean’s Eleven | Friday | $13,300,000 | $183,417,150 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Saturday | $11,922,878 | $424,668,047 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Friday | $8,689,000 | $70,107,728 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Sunday | $6,686,637 | $111,110,575 |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Saturday | $6,237,162 | $165,364,060 |
| 2002 | Die Another Day | Saturday | $5,872,000 | $160,942,139 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 7.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Ocean’s Eleven | Friday | $13,300,000 | $183,417,150 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Friday | $8,689,000 | $70,107,728 |
| 2012 | Playing for Keeps | Friday | $2,127,859 | $13,103,272 |
| 2023 | Waitress: The Musical | Thursday | $672,105 | $5,402,148 |
| 2007 | Atonement | Friday | $243,000 | $50,980,159 |
| 2018 | Kedarnath | Friday | $116,574 | $893,582 |
| 2018 | Mary Queen of Scots | Friday | $67,992 | $16,648,499 |
| 2018 | Vox Lux | Friday | $67,967 | $727,119 |
| 2018 | Ben is Back | Friday | $25,197 | $3,703,182 |
| 2012 | Hyde Park on Hudson | Friday | $23,371 | $6,376,145 |
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 7.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Moana 2 | $51,287,053 | $460,405,297 |
| 2001 | Ocean’s Eleven | $38,107,822 | $183,417,150 |
| 2024 | Wicked | $36,448,420 | $473,231,120 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | $35,165,614 | $477,373,578 |
| 2013 | Frozen | $31,616,230 | $400,953,009 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $26,185,886 | $424,668,047 |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | $25,783,232 | $70,107,728 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | $24,271,354 | $111,110,575 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | $22,026,762 | $337,135,885 |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | $18,162,837 | $74,888,996 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fay Bainter (1893, died on April 16, 1968 at the age of 74), Clarence Nash (1904, died on February 20, 1985 at the age of 80), Louis Prima (1910, died on August 24, 1978 at the age of 67), Eli Wallach (1915, died on June 24, 2014 at the age of 98), Leigh Brackett (1915, died on March 18, 1978 at the age of 62), Timuel Black (1918, died on October 13, 2021 at the age of 102), Jack Couffer (1924, died on July 30, 2021 at the age of 96), Ellen Burstyn (1932, turns 93 this year), Kenneth Colley (1937, turns 88 this year), Sue Johnston (1943, turns 82 this year), Clive Russell (1945, turns 80 this year), Tom Waits (1946, turns 79 this year), Rosalind Ayres (1946, turns 79 this year), Sulevi Peltola (1946, died on January 28, 2025 at the age of 78), James Keach (1947, turns 78 this year), Tony Thomas (1948, turns 77 this year), Georges Corraface (1952, turns 73 this year), Priscilla Barnes (1954, turns 71 this year), Mark Rolston (1956, turns 69 this year), Abdellatif Kechiche (1960, turns 65 this year), Patrick Fabian (1964, turns 61 this year), Hugo E. Blick (1964, turns 61 this year), Jeffrey Wright (1965, turns 60 this year), C. Thomas Howell (1966, turns 59 this year), Derrick Borte (1967, turns 58 this year), Bryan Johnson (1967, turns 58 this year), Patrice O'Neal (1969, turns 56 this year), Christa Campbell (1972, turns 53 this year), Mark Duplass (1976, turns 49 this year), Shiri Appleby (1978, turns 47 this year), Kristofer Hivju (1978, turns 47 this year), Jeff Nichols (1978, turns 47 this year), Ayako Fujitani (1979, turns 46 this year), Sara Bareilles (1979, turns 46 this year), Jennifer Carpenter (1979, turns 46 this year), Eric Bauza (1979, turns 46 this year), Jack Huston (1982, turns 43 this year), Aaron Carter (1987, died on November 5, 2022 at the age of 34), Emily Browning (1988, turns 37 this year), Nicholas Hoult (1989, turns 36 this year), Caleb Landry-Jones (1989, turns 36 this year)
Died on this day in history: Joan Bennett (1990, at the age of 80), Harry Morgan (2011, at the age of 96), Steve Reevis (2017, at the age of 55), Zaza Urushadze (2019, at the age of 54), Natalie Desselle Reid (2020, at the age of 53), Eduardo Galvão (2020, at the age of 57), Harold Budd (2020, at the age of 84), Natalie Desselle (2020, at the age of 53), Greg Tate (2021, at the age of 64), Jan Nowicki (2022, at the age of 83), Keisha Whitaker (2023, at the age of 51)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.