On This Day - December 13

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 13.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Friday $31,190,587 $258,241,522
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level Friday $19,722,984 $316,831,246
1997 Scream 2 Saturday $14,200,000 $101,363,301
2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still Saturday $11,920,581 $79,366,978
2025 Zootopia 2 Saturday $11,750,365 $380,676,268
2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings Saturday $9,246,422 $65,014,513
2025 Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Saturday $8,419,635 $127,143,040
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis Friday $7,732,988 $43,254,409
2003 Something’s Gotta Give Saturday $7,026,916 $124,685,242
2009 The Princess and the Frog Sunday $6,663,537 $104,400,899

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 13.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Friday $31,190,587 $258,241,522
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level Friday $19,722,984 $316,831,246
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis Friday $7,732,988 $43,254,409
2002 Maid in Manhattan Friday $6,572,968 $93,932,896
2013 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas Friday $5,748,584 $52,543,354
2024 Kraven the Hunter Friday $4,801,608 $25,026,310
2002 Drumline Friday $4,125,718 $56,398,162
2002 The Hot Chick Friday $2,598,364 $35,081,550
2024 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Friday $2,013,310 $9,158,572
2019 Black Christmas Friday $1,809,875 $10,429,730

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 13.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $73,645,197 $258,241,522
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level $59,251,543 $316,831,246
1997 Scream 2 $32,926,342 $101,363,301
2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still $30,480,153 $79,366,978
2024 Moana 2 $26,499,368 $460,405,297
2025 Zootopia 2 $25,880,118 $380,676,268
2009 The Princess and the Frog $24,208,916 $104,400,899
2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings $24,115,934 $65,014,513
2024 Wicked $22,649,405 $474,983,975
2013 Frozen $22,568,138 $400,953,009

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Van Heflin (1908, died on July 23, 1971 at the age of 62), Sol Saks (1910, died on April 16, 2011 at the age of 100), Curd Jurgens (1915, turns 111 this year), Don Taylor (1920, died on December 29, 1998 at the age of 78), Dick Van Dyke (1925, turns 101 this year), Genevieve Page (1927, died on February 14, 2025 at the age of 97), Christopher Plummer (1929, died on February 5, 2021 at the age of 91), Robert Prosky (1930, died on December 8, 2008 at the age of 77), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932, turns 94 this year), Richard D. Zanuck (1934, died on July 13, 2012 at the age of 77), Herman Cain (1945, died on July 30, 2020 at the age of 74), Kathy Garver (1945, turns 81 this year), Darlene Cates (1947, died on March 26, 2017 at the age of 69), Ted Nugent (1948, turns 78 this year), Robert Lindsay (1949, turns 77 this year), Paula Wilcox (1949, turns 77 this year), Wendie Malick (1950, turns 76 this year), Afemo Omilami (1950, turns 76 this year), Juan Fernandez (1956, turns 70 this year), Steve Buscemi (1957, turns 69 this year), Billy Van Zandt (1957, turns 69 this year), Amy Stoch (1958, turns 68 this year), Lynn-Holly Johnson (1958, turns 68 this year), Rusty Cundieff (1960, turns 66 this year), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961, turns 65 this year), NeNe Leakes (1966, turns 60 this year), Jamie Foxx (1967, turns 59 this year), Scott Stuber (1968, turns 58 this year), Tony Curran (1969, turns 57 this year), Bart Johnson (1970, turns 56 this year), Vasco Nunes (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Richard Hillman (1974, turns 52 this year), James Kyson (1975, turns 51 this year), Charlie Talbert (1978, turns 48 this year), Tanya van Graan (1983, turns 43 this year), Satya Bhabha (1983, turns 43 this year), Laurence Leboeuf (1985, turns 41 this year), Michael Socha (1987, turns 39 this year), Taylor Swift (1989, turns 37 this year), Emily Peachey (1990, turns 36 this year)

Died on this day in history: Tim Moore (1958, at the age of 71), Jon Hall (1979, at the age of 64), Floyd Red Crow Westerman (2007, at the age of 71), Alan Thicke (2016, at the age of 69), Bruce Gray (2017, at the age of 81), Martin Ransohoff (2017, at the age of 90), Sergey Solovyov (2021, at the age of 77), Stephen ‘Twitch’ Boss (2022, at the age of 40), Yilmaz Atadeniz (2023, at the age of 90), Wolfgang Becker (2024, at the age of 70), Héctor Alterio (2025, at the age of 96), Abraham Quintanilla (2025, at the age of 86)

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