On This Day - December 24

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 24.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens Thursday $27,395,725 $936,662,225
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Tuesday $20,270,474 $515,202,542
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home Friday $19,655,506 $814,811,535
2017 Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi Sunday $17,629,999 $620,181,382
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Saturday $15,308,508 $533,539,991
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water Saturday $14,869,288 $688,809,501
2009 Avatar Thursday $11,150,998 $785,221,649
2018 Aquaman Monday $10,851,928 $335,061,807
2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash Wednesday $10,737,243 $250,295,254
2017 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Sunday $9,049,833 $404,508,916

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 24.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2025 Father, Mother, Sister, Brother Wednesday $22,422 $90,728
2025 The Plague Wednesday $7,355 $38,149
2010 Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ) Friday $531 $323,447

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 24.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home $84,548,505 $814,811,535
2017 Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi $71,565,498 $620,181,382
2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $64,033,768 $533,539,991
2022 Avatar: The Way of Water $63,338,220 $688,809,501
2004 Meet the Fockers $46,120,980 $279,167,575
2017 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle $36,169,328 $404,508,916
2016 Sing $35,258,145 $270,329,045
2010 Little Fockers $30,833,665 $148,438,600
2006 Night at the Museum $30,433,781 $250,863,268
2011 Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol $29,556,629 $209,397,903

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Michael Curtiz (1886, died on April 11, 1962 at the age of 75), Joseph Cornell (1903, died on December 29, 1972 at the age of 69), Howard Hughes (1905, died on April 5, 1976 at the age of 70), Janet Carroll (1910, died on May 22, 2012 at the age of 101), Ava Gardner (1922, died on December 24, 1922 at the age of 0), Norman Rossington (1924, died on May 21, 1999 at the age of 74), Robert Ridgely (1931, turns 95 this year), Jill Bennett (1931, turns 95 this year), Philippe Nahon (1938, died on April 19, 2020 at the age of 81), Sharon Farrell (1940, turns 86 this year), Nicholas Meyer (1945, turns 81 this year), Edwige Fenech (1948, turns 78 this year), Timothy Carhart (1953, turns 73 this year), Julius Tennon (1953, turns 73 this year), Clarence Gilyard Jr. (1955, died on November 28, 2022 at the age of 66), Grand L Bush (1955, turns 71 this year), Anil Kapoor (1956, turns 70 this year), Stephanie Hodge (1956, turns 70 this year), Scott Spiegel (1957, turns 69 this year), Lee Daniels (1959, turns 67 this year), Wade Williams (1961, turns 65 this year), Bill Siegel (1962, died on December 11, 2018 at the age of 55), Gavin O’Connor (1963, turns 63 this year), Mark Valley (1964, turns 62 this year), Diedrich Bader (1966, turns 60 this year), Randy J. Goodwin (1967, turns 59 this year), Nick Love (1969, turns 57 this year), Pernille Fischer Christensen (1969, turns 57 this year), Amaury Nolasco (1970, turns 56 this year), Keith Silverstein (1970, turns 56 this year), Breck Eisner (1970, turns 56 this year), Jeremy Davidson (1971, turns 55 this year), Ricky Martin (1971, turns 55 this year), Stephenie Meyer (1973, turns 53 this year), Matt Passmore (1973, turns 53 this year), J.D. Walsh (1974, turns 52 this year), Ryan Seacrest (1974, turns 52 this year), Thure Lindhardt (1974, turns 52 this year), Michael Raymond-James (1977, turns 49 this year), Robo Shankar (1978, died on September 18, 2025 at the age of 46), Ben Geurens (1979, turns 47 this year), Robert Schwartzman (1982, turns 44 this year), Austin Stowell (1984, turns 42 this year), Laura Aikman (1985, turns 41 this year), Abigail Klein (1988, turns 38 this year), Louis Tomlinson (1991, turns 35 this year), Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991, turns 35 this year), Millie Brady (1993, turns 33 this year)

Died on this day in history: Ava Gardner (1922, at the age of 0), Peter Lawford (1984, at the age of 61), Ian Hendry (1984, at the age of 53), Rossano Brazzi (1994, at the age of 78), Toshiro Mifune (1997, at the age of 77), Jack Klugman (2012, at the age of 90), Charles Durning (2012, at the age of 89), Richard Adams (2016, at the age of 96), Liz Smith (2016, at the age of 95), Heather Menzies (2017, at the age of 68), Patrice Martinez (2018, at the age of 55), Allee Willis (2019, at the age of 72), Tunisha Sharma (2022, at the age of 20), Catherine Cyran (2022, at the age of 20), Epigmenio Rodríguez (2023, at the age of 70), David Leland (2024, at the age of 77), Mohammad Bakri (2025, at the age of 72)

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