On This Day - November 16

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on November 16.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Friday $71,167,839 $292,324,737
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Saturday $34,213,803 $262,233,381
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Friday $32,333,203 $317,871,467
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Friday $25,473,261 $159,555,901
2013 Thor: The Dark World Saturday $16,761,427 $206,362,140
2008 Quantum of Solace Sunday $14,690,029 $169,368,427
2019 Ford v. Ferrari Saturday $12,409,617 $117,624,357
2013 The Best Man Holiday Saturday $12,265,995 $70,525,195
2012 Skyfall Friday $12,252,756 $304,360,277
2014 Big Hero 6 Sunday $10,274,455 $222,527,828

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on November 16.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Friday $71,167,839 $292,324,737
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Friday $32,333,203 $317,871,467
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Friday $25,473,261 $159,555,901
2007 Beowulf Friday $10,005,134 $82,280,579
2018 Instant Family Friday $4,535,317 $67,363,237
2018 Widows Friday $4,204,512 $42,402,632
2007 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Friday $2,602,698 $32,061,555
2007 Love in the Time of Cholera Friday $647,000 $4,617,608
2012 Silver Linings Playbook Friday $120,770 $132,092,958
2018 Green Book Friday $93,036 $85,080,171

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was November 16.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 $141,067,634 $292,324,737
2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone $90,294,621 $317,871,467
2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $88,357,488 $262,233,381
2008 Quantum of Solace $67,528,882 $169,368,427
2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald $62,163,104 $159,555,901
2012 Skyfall $41,104,513 $304,360,277
2018 Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch $38,587,130 $272,699,130
2013 Thor: The Dark World $36,586,016 $206,362,140
2014 Dumb and Dumber To $36,111,775 $86,208,010
2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $35,017,301 $180,174,880

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: UFC 309

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Burgess Meredith (1907, died on September 9, 1997 at the age of 89), Patricia Barry (1922, died on October 11, 2016 at the age of 93), Royal Dano (1922, died on May 15, 1994 at the age of 71), Remo Remotti (1924, died on June 21, 2015 at the age of 90), Clu Gulager (1928, died on August 5, 2022 at the age of 93), Steve Railsback (1945, turns 79 this year), David Leisure (1950, turns 74 this year), Miguel Sandoval (1951, turns 73 this year), Dan Shor (1956, turns 68 this year), Marg Helgenberger (1958, turns 66 this year), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (1964, turns 60 this year), Mark Benton (1965, turns 59 this year), Lisa Bonet (1967, turns 57 this year), James Parks (1968, turns 56 this year), Martha Plimpton (1970, turns 54 this year), Missi Pyle (1972, turns 52 this year), Michael Irby (1972, turns 52 this year), Ona Grauer (1975, turns 49 this year), Demore Barnes (1976, turns 48 this year), Kristen Harris (1976, turns 48 this year), Maggie Gyllenhaal (1977, turns 47 this year), Mauricio Ochmann (1977, turns 47 this year), Michael Faustino (1979, turns 45 this year), Alexa Havins (1980, turns 44 this year), Kimberly J. Brown (1984, turns 40 this year), Gemma Atkinson (1984, turns 40 this year), Milo Gibson (1990, turns 34 this year), Pete Davidson (1993, turns 31 this year), Brandon Larracuente (1994, turns 30 this year), India Ennenga (1994, turns 30 this year), Noah Gray Cabey (1995, turns 29 this year), Francesca Scorsese (1999, turns 25 this year)

Died on this day in history: Clark Gable (1960, at the age of 59), Dean McDermott (1966, at the age of 59), Claude Dauphin (1978, at the age of 75), Gary Graver (2006, at the age of 68), Edward Woodward (2009, at the age of 79), Michael C. Gross (2015, at the age of 70), Ann Wedgeworth (2017, at the age of 83), William Goldman (2018, at the age of 87), Nancy Brunning (2019, at the age of 47), Terry O'Neill (2019, at the age of 81), Robert Clary (2022, at the age of 96), Meto Jovanovski (2023, at the age of 77)

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