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 | $262,425,630 |
| 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 | $262,425,630 |
| 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 | $199,242,025 |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | $19,878,136 | $291,147,424 |
| 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 90 today), Jan Burrell (1939, turns 86 today), Harry Reid (1939, died on December 28, 2021 at the age of 82), Henry Kingi (1943, turns 82 today), Cathy Lee Crosby (1944, turns 81 today), Penelope Spheeris (1945, turns 80 today), Keith Szarabajka (1952, turns 73 today), Dan Butler (1954, turns 71 today), Dennis Christopher (1955, turns 70 today), Steven Bauer (1956, turns 69 today), Alexander Kuznetsov (1959, died on June 6, 2019 at the age of 59), Boman Irani (1959, turns 66 today), Brendan Coyle (1963, turns 62 today), Grant Masters (1964, turns 61 today), Lucy Alexis Liu (1968, turns 57 today), Rena Sofer (1968, turns 57 today), Charlotte Munck (1969, turns 56 today), Joe Lo Truglio (1970, turns 55 today), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1971, turns 54 today), Suzy Nakamura (1973, turns 52 today), François-Eudes Chanfrault (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Sadie Alexandru (1977, turns 48 today), Nelly Furtado (1978, turns 47 today), Yvonne Catterfeld (1979, turns 46 today), Britney Spears (1981, turns 44 today), Eric Jungmann (1981, turns 44 today), Jana Kramer (1983, turns 42 today), Colleen Rennison (1987, turns 38 today), Alfie Enoch (1988, turns 37 today), Cassie Steele (1989, turns 36 today), Dylan McLaughlin (1993, turns 32 today), Annalise Basso (1998, turns 27 today), Amber Frank (1998, turns 27 today), Fred Hechinger (1999, turns 26 today), Dusan Brown (2001, turns 24 today)
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.