On This Day - October 12
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on October 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | Saturday | $22,137,778 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | Saturday | $18,461,329 | $274,092,705 |
| 2019 | The Addams Family | Saturday | $11,761,776 | $97,864,733 |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | Saturday | $10,450,283 | $107,136,417 |
| 2018 | Venom | Friday | $9,775,629 | $213,511,408 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | Friday | $8,544,865 | $215,288,866 |
| 2019 | Gemini Man | Saturday | $7,740,692 | $48,546,770 |
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Friday | $7,418,231 | $55,204,525 |
| 2012 | Sinister | Friday | $7,416,439 | $48,086,903 |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Saturday | $7,415,415 | $92,955,420 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on October 12.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | Friday | $7,418,231 | $55,204,525 |
| 2012 | Sinister | Friday | $7,416,439 | $48,086,903 |
| 2012 | Argo | Friday | $5,891,522 | $136,025,503 |
| 2018 | First Man | Friday | $5,783,310 | $44,936,545 |
| 2018 | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Friday | $4,820,864 | $46,697,321 |
| 2007 | We Own the Night | Friday | $3,791,874 | $28,563,179 |
| 2001 | Bandits | Friday | $3,660,000 | $41,523,271 |
| 2012 | Here Comes the Boom | Friday | $3,596,217 | $45,290,318 |
| 2001 | Corky Romano | Friday | $3,147,000 | $23,978,402 |
| 2018 | Bad Times at the El Royale | Friday | $2,810,478 | $17,839,115 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was October 12.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Joker | $55,861,403 | $335,451,311 |
| 2013 | Gravity | $43,188,256 | $274,092,705 |
| 2018 | Venom | $35,006,107 | $213,511,408 |
| 2019 | The Addams Family | $30,300,007 | $97,864,733 |
| 2018 | A Star is Born | $28,445,205 | $215,288,866 |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | $26,406,134 | $167,767,189 |
| 2013 | Captain Phillips | $25,718,314 | $107,136,417 |
| 2014 | Dracula Untold | $23,514,615 | $55,991,880 |
| 2003 | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | $22,089,322 | $70,098,138 |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | $21,873,127 | $139,854,287 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Arthur Space (1908, died on January 13, 1983 at the age of 74), Kenneth Griffith (1921, turns 104 this year), Antonia Rey (1926, died on February 21, 2019 at the age of 92), Dick Gregory (1932, died on August 19, 2017 at the age of 84), Luciano Pavarotti (1935, died on September 6, 2007 at the age of 71), Sam Moore (1935, died on January 10, 2025 at the age of 89), Lin Shaye (1943, turns 82 this year), Aurore Clement (1945, turns 80 this year), Richard Price (1949, turns 76 this year), Robin Askwith (1950, turns 75 this year), David Threlfall (1953, turns 72 this year), Massimo Ghini (1954, turns 71 this year), Fabio Sartor (1954, died on November 6, 2024 at the age of 70), Clementine Celarie (1957, turns 68 this year), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960, turns 65 this year), Deborah Foreman (1962, turns 63 this year), Dave Legeno (1963, died on July 6, 2014 at the age of 50), Satoshi Kon (1963, died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46), Satoshi Kon (1963, died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46), JoAnn Willette (1963, turns 62 this year), Jane McAlevey (1964, died on July 6, 2024 at the age of 59), Hugh Jackman (1968, turns 57 this year), Todd Babcock (1969, turns 56 this year), Kirk Cameron (1970, turns 55 this year), Lala Sloatman (1970, turns 55 this year), Pilar Castro (1970, turns 55 this year), Sonke Mohring (1972, turns 53 this year), Joseph Kahn (1972, turns 53 this year), Kate Beahan (1974, turns 51 this year), Tom Guiry (1981, turns 44 this year), Brian J. Smith (1981, turns 44 this year), Tony Cavalero (1983, turns 42 this year), Michael Sielaff (1985, turns 40 this year), Tyler Blackburn (1986, turns 39 this year), Rafal Zawierucha (1986, turns 39 this year), Eleanor Columbus (1989, turns 36 this year), Josh Hutcherson (1992, turns 33 this year), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (1999, turns 26 this year), Raymond Ochoa (2001, turns 24 this year), Iris Apatow (2002, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Howard Sackler (1982, at the age of 52), Jay Ward (1989, at the age of 69), Regis Toomey (1991, at the age of 93), Leon Ames (1993, at the age of 91), Wilt Chamberlain (1999, at the age of 63), Lonny Chapman (2007, at the age of 87), Joan Leslie (2015, at the age of 90), Thomas Mikal Ford (2016, at the age of 52), Max Fairchild (2017, at the age of 71), Conchata Ferrell (2020, at the age of 77), Brian Goldner (2021, at the age of 58), Lara Parker (2023, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.