On This Day - December 2

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 2.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas Saturday $11,980,000 $261,939,550
2017 Coco Saturday $11,867,693 $210,460,015
2006 Happy Feet Saturday $8,227,390 $198,000,317
2018 Ralph Breaks The Internet Sunday $7,909,049 $201,091,711
2017 Justice League Saturday $7,439,921 $229,024,295
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Sunday $7,121,000 $317,871,467
2006 Casino Royale Saturday $6,824,841 $167,365,000
2016 Moana Friday $6,544,643 $248,757,044
2000 Unbreakable Saturday $6,425,000 $94,999,143
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Saturday $6,045,644 $166,350,594

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 2.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2022 Violent Night Friday $4,869,770 $50,057,405
2005 Aeon Flux Friday $4,669,229 $25,857,987
2016 Incarnate Friday $915,217 $4,799,774
2022 The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (映画 五等分の花嫁) Friday $266,000 $502,000
2022 HIT: The 2nd Case Friday $230,000 $600,000
2016 Believe Friday $168,900 $890,303
2011 Shame Friday $110,476 $4,002,293
2016 Jackie Friday $90,742 $13,960,394
2022 Spoiler Alert Friday $45,841 $1,384,003
2011 Pastorela Friday $23,784 $161,194

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 2.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2016 Moana $28,270,989 $248,757,044
2017 Coco $27,533,304 $210,460,015
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas $27,096,630 $261,939,550
2018 Ralph Breaks The Internet $25,566,945 $201,091,711
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone $23,642,327 $317,871,467
2023 RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ $21,801,216 $33,889,684
1995 Toy Story $20,164,662 $192,523,233
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $19,878,136 $290,201,752
2001 Behind Enemy Lines $18,736,133 $58,855,732
2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $18,118,111 $234,037,575

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Warren William (1894, died on September 24, 1948 at the age of 53), Donald Woods (1906, died on March 5, 1998 at the age of 91), Bill Erwin (1914, died on December 29, 2010 at the age of 96), Maria Callas (1923, died on September 16, 1977 at the age of 53), Jonathan Frid (1924, died on April 14, 2012 at the age of 87), Vilgot Sjöman (1924, died on April 9, 2006 at the age of 81), Julie Harris (1925, died on August 24, 2013 at the age of 87), Dan Jenkins (1928, died on March 7, 2019 at the age of 90), Brian Phelan (1934, died on May 29, 2024 at the age of 89), Hy Pyke (1935, turns 89 this year), Jan Burrell (1939, turns 85 this year), Harry Reid (1939, died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 82), Henry Kingi (1943, turns 81 this year), Cathy Lee Crosby (1944, turns 80 this year), Penelope Spheeris (1945, turns 79 this year), Keith Szarabajka (1952, turns 72 this year), Dan Butler (1954, turns 70 this year), Dennis Christopher (1955, turns 69 this year), Steven Bauer (1956, turns 68 this year), Alexander Kuznetsov (1959, died on June 6, 2019 at the age of 59), Boman Irani (1959, turns 65 this year), Brendan Coyle (1963, turns 61 this year), Grant Masters (1964, turns 60 this year), Lucy Alexis Liu (1968, turns 56 this year), Rena Sofer (1968, turns 56 this year), Charlotte Munck (1969, turns 55 this year), Joe Lo Truglio (1970, turns 54 this year), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1971, turns 53 this year), Suzy Nakamura (1973, turns 51 this year), François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Sadie Alexandru (1977, turns 47 this year), Nelly Furtado (1978, turns 46 this year), Yvonne Catterfeld (1979, turns 45 this year), Britney Spears (1981, turns 43 this year), Eric Jungmann (1981, turns 43 this year), Jana Kramer (1983, turns 41 this year), Colleen Rennison (1987, turns 37 this year), Alfie Enoch (1988, turns 36 this year), Cassie Steele (1989, turns 35 this year), Dylan McLaughlin (1993, turns 31 this year), Annalise Basso (1998, turns 26 this year), Amber Frank (1998, turns 26 this year), Dusan Brown (2001, turns 23 this year)

Died on this day in history: Marty Feldman (1982, at the age of 48), Robert Cummings (1990, at the age of 80), Will McMillan (2015, at the age of 71), Gabriele Ferzetti (2015, at the age of 90), Anthony Valentine (2015, at the age of 76), Joe Smith (2019, at the age of 91), Rafer Johnson (2020, at the age of 85), Franco Giraldi (2020, at the age of 89), Warren Berlinger (2020, at the age of 83), Pamela Tiffin (2020, at the age of 84), Al Strobel (2022, at the age of 84), Concha Velasco (2023, at the age of 84)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.