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.