On This Day - February 12
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on February 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Deadpool | Friday | $47,335,592 | $363,070,709 |
| 2005 | Hitch | Saturday | $18,581,456 | $177,784,257 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | Sunday | $15,510,086 | $175,750,384 |
| 2010 | Valentine's Day | Friday | $14,539,385 | $110,485,654 |
| 2011 | Just Go With It | Saturday | $13,293,884 | $103,028,109 |
| 2011 | Gnomeo and Juliet | Saturday | $11,622,568 | $99,967,670 |
| 2011 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | Saturday | $10,742,183 | $73,013,910 |
| 2012 | Safe House | Sunday | $10,245,915 | $126,181,630 |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Friday | $9,649,890 | $62,189,884 |
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Friday | $9,635,313 | $88,768,303 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on February 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Deadpool | Friday | $47,335,592 | $363,070,709 |
| 2010 | Valentine's Day | Friday | $14,539,385 | $110,485,654 |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Friday | $9,649,890 | $62,189,884 |
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Friday | $9,635,313 | $88,768,303 |
| 2016 | How to be Single | Friday | $5,250,090 | $46,843,513 |
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | Friday | $4,220,000 | $52,880,016 |
| 2016 | Zoolander 2 | Friday | $4,172,403 | $28,848,693 |
| 2014 | RoboCop | Wednesday | $2,808,698 | $58,607,007 |
| 1999 | Blast from the Past | Friday | $2,040,000 | $26,613,620 |
| 1999 | My Favorite Martian | Friday | $1,810,000 | $36,850,101 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was February 12.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Deadpool | $132,434,639 | $363,070,709 |
| 2010 | Valentine's Day | $56,260,707 | $110,485,654 |
| 2017 | The Lego Batman Movie | $53,003,468 | $175,750,384 |
| 2017 | Fifty Shades Darker | $46,607,250 | $114,434,010 |
| 2005 | Hitch | $43,142,214 | $177,784,257 |
| 2012 | The Vow | $41,202,458 | $125,014,030 |
| 2012 | Safe House | $40,172,720 | $126,181,630 |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | $31,479,235 | $62,189,884 |
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | $31,236,067 | $88,768,303 |
| 2011 | Just Go With It | $30,514,732 | $103,028,109 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: Untitled Disney Film, Untitled Universal RomCom Event Film, Untitled Warner Bros. Event Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Wallace Ford (1898, died on June 11, 1966 at the age of 68), Lorne Greene (1915, died on September 11, 1987 at the age of 72), Forrest Tucker (1919, died on October 25, 1986 at the age of 67), Franco Zeffirelli (1923, died on June 15, 2019 at the age of 96), Louis Zorich (1924, died on January 30, 2018 at the age of 93), Costa-Gavras (1933, turned 92 this year), Annette Crosbie (1934, turned 91 this year), Joe Don Baker (1936, turned 89 this year), Richard Lynch (1940, died on June 19, 2012 at the age of 72), Maud Adams (1945, turned 80 this year), Cliff De Young (1945, turned 80 this year), Robin Thomas (1949, turned 76 this year), Michael Ironside (1950, turned 75 this year), Simon MacCorkindale (1952, died on October 14, 2010 at the age of 58), Joanna Kerns (1953, turned 72 this year), Zach Grenier (1954, turned 71 this year), Arsenio Hall (1956, turned 69 this year), Sigrid Thornton (1959, turned 66 this year), John Michael Higgins (1963, turned 62 this year), Brian Haley (1963, turned 62 this year), Raphael Sbarge (1964, turned 61 this year), Alex Meneses (1965, turned 60 this year), Lochlyn Munro (1966, turned 59 this year), Josh Brolin (1968, turned 57 this year), Simon Northwood (1968, turned 57 this year), Darren Aronofsky (1969, turned 56 this year), Scott Menville (1971, turned 54 this year), Ajay Naidu (1972, turned 53 this year), Tara Strong (1973, turned 52 this year), Lisa Brenner (1974, turned 51 this year), Christopher Pettiet (1976, died on April 12, 2000 at the age of 24), Paul Anderson (1978, turned 47 this year), Jesse Spencer (1979, turned 46 this year), Angus Sampson (1979, turned 46 this year), Christina Ricci (1980, turned 45 this year), Sarah Lancaster (1980, turned 45 this year), Enver Gjokaj (1980, turned 45 this year), Heather Doerksen (1980, turned 45 this year), Iko Uwais (1983, turned 42 this year), Josef Altin (1983, turned 42 this year), Valorie Curry (1986, turned 39 this year), Anna Hopkins (1987, turned 38 this year), Clare-Hope Ashitey (1987, turned 38 this year), Katherine Barrell (1990, turned 35 this year), Park Bo-young (1990, turned 35 this year), Jennifer Stone (1993, turned 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Dziga Vertov (1954, at the age of 58), Sal Mineo (1976, at the age of 37), Jean Renoir (1979, at the age of 84), Jean Dixon (1981, at the age of 87), Nicholas Colasanto (1985, at the age of 61), James Cossins (1997, at the age of 63), Charles M. Schulz (2000, at the age of 77), Kenneth Mars (2011, at the age of 75), Betty Garrett (2011, at the age of 91), Sid Caesar (2014, at the age of 91), Louise Latham (2018, at the age of 95), Lynn Stalmaster (2021, at the age of 93), Milford Graves (2021, at the age of 93), Phyllis Cicero (2021, at the age of 61), Ivan Reitman (2022, at the age of 75), James Flynn (2023, at the age of 75), Sam Mercer (2024, at the age of 75)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.