On This Day - January 22
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Avatar | Friday | $9,028,494 | $785,221,649 |
| 2017 | Split | Sunday | $8,877,605 | $138,141,585 |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Saturday | $8,663,370 | $98,780,042 |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | Saturday | $8,222,236 | $70,662,220 |
| 2005 | Are We There Yet? | Saturday | $7,883,103 | $82,674,398 |
| 2015 | American Sniper | Thursday | $7,656,492 | $350,126,372 |
| 2010 | Legion | Friday | $6,686,233 | $40,168,080 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Saturday | $6,518,119 | $814,811,535 |
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | Sunday | $6,163,867 | $62,318,875 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Sunday | $6,007,938 | $684,075,767 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Legion | Friday | $6,686,233 | $40,168,080 |
| 2016 | Dirty Grandpa | Friday | $4,296,448 | $35,593,113 |
| 2016 | The Boy | Friday | $3,815,402 | $35,819,556 |
| 2010 | Tooth Fairy | Friday | $3,544,512 | $60,022,256 |
| 2016 | The 5th Wave | Friday | $3,489,019 | $34,912,982 |
| 2010 | Extraordinary Measures | Friday | $2,037,966 | $12,482,741 |
| 2016 | Yip Man 3 | Friday | $268,267 | $2,679,437 |
| 2021 | Our Friend | Friday | $85,010 | $657,511 |
| 2016 | Caged No More | Friday | $30,702 | $114,959 |
| 2021 | No Man’s Land | Friday | $18,713 | $139,221 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 22.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Split | $40,010,975 | $138,141,585 |
| 2010 | Avatar | $34,944,081 | $785,221,649 |
| 2006 | Underworld: Evolution | $26,857,181 | $62,318,875 |
| 2012 | Underworld: Awakening | $25,306,725 | $62,321,039 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $20,133,106 | $684,075,767 |
| 2017 | xXx: Return of Xander Cage | $20,130,142 | $44,898,413 |
| 2011 | No Strings Attached | $19,652,921 | $70,662,220 |
| 2012 | Red Tails | $18,782,154 | $49,876,377 |
| 2005 | Are We There Yet? | $18,575,214 | $82,674,398 |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | $17,677,565 | $98,780,042 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: D.W. Griffith (1875, died on July 23, 1948 at the age of 73), Conrad Veidt (1893, died on April 3, 1943 at the age of 50), Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898, died on February 11, 1948 at the age of 50), George Balanchine (1904, died on April 30, 1983 at the age of 79), Ann Sothern (1909, died on March 15, 2001 at the age of 92), Diana Douglas (1923, died on July 3, 2015 at the age of 92), Diana Douglas (1923, died on July 3, 2015 at the age of 92), Walter Sparrow (1927, died on May 31, 2000 at the age of 73), Piper Laurie (1932, died on October 14, 2023 at the age of 91), Bill Bixby (1934, died on November 21, 1993 at the age of 59), Seymour Cassel (1935, died on April 7, 2019 at the age of 84), Sonny Chiba (1939, died on August 19, 2021 at the age of 82), John Hurt (1940, died on January 25, 2016 at the age of 76), Angela Winkler (1944, turned 80 this year), Jophery Brown (1945, died on January 11, 2014 at the age of 68), Michael Cristofer (1945, turned 79 this year), Jim Jarmusch (1953, turned 71 this year), Annie Gaybis (1953, turned 71 this year), Michael Kopsa (1956, turned 68 this year), Bogdan Stanoevitch (1958, died on January 12, 2021 at the age of 62), Linda Blair (1959, turned 65 this year), Tamra Davis (1962, turned 62 this year), Robert Mailhouse (1962, turned 62 this year), Neeraj Vora (1963, died on December 14, 2017 at the age of 54), Mark Lewis Jones (1964, turned 60 this year), Diane Lane (1965, turned 59 this year), Brian McCardie (1965, died on April 28, 2024 at the age of 59), Guy Fieri (1968, turned 56 this year), Raquel Cassidy (1968, turned 56 this year), Olivia D'Abo (1969, turned 55 this year), Dan Finnerty (1970, turned 54 this year), Katie Finneran (1971, turned 53 this year), Gabriel Macht (1972, turned 52 this year), Romi Park (1972, turned 52 this year), Katie Barberi (1972, turned 52 this year), Balthazar Getty (1975, turned 49 this year), Eugenia Yuan (1976, turned 48 this year), Jennifer Spence (1977, turned 47 this year), Matthew Newton (1977, turned 47 this year), Christopher Masterson (1980, turned 44 this year), Willa Ford (1981, turned 43 this year), O.T. Fagbenle (1981, turned 43 this year), August Wittgenstein (1981, turned 43 this year), Lilly McDowell (1981, turned 43 this year), Phoebe Strole (1983, turned 41 this year), Justin Hurwitz (1985, turned 39 this year), Tommy Knight (1993, turned 31 this year), Sami Gayle (1996, turned 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: Telly Savalas (1994, at the age of 72), Ann Miller (2004, at the age of 80), Heath Ledger (2008, at the age of 28), Jean Simmons (2010, at the age of 80), James Mitchell (2010, at the age of 89), Luis Avalos (2014, at the age of 67), Ursula K. Le Guin (2018, at the age of 88), James Frawley (2019, at the age of 82), Dean Copkov (2019, at the age of 52), Hank Aaron (2021, at the age of 86), Walter Bernstein (2021, at the age of 101), Mario Pupella (2023, at the age of 77), Agusti Villaronga (2023, at the age of 69), Gary Graham (2024, at the age of 73)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.