On This Day - January 2
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $34,368,250 | $936,662,225 |
| 2010 | Avatar | Saturday | $25,835,551 | $785,221,649 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Monday | $21,411,622 | $684,075,767 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $17,502,959 | $814,115,070 |
| 2017 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Monday | $15,913,674 | $533,539,991 |
| 2017 | Sing | Monday | $14,394,090 | $270,329,045 |
| 2010 | Sherlock Holmes | Saturday | $14,373,564 | $209,028,679 |
| 2010 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | Saturday | $14,373,273 | $219,614,612 |
| 1998 | Titanic | Friday | $11,698,861 | $674,460,013 |
| 2016 | Daddy’s Home | Saturday | $11,518,854 | $150,357,137 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 2.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death | Friday | $7,746,085 | $26,501,323 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 2.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $90,241,673 | $936,662,225 |
| 2010 | Avatar | $68,490,688 | $785,221,649 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $56,023,590 | $814,115,070 |
| 2004 | Meet the Fockers | $41,741,785 | $279,167,575 |
| 2010 | Sherlock Holmes | $36,612,481 | $209,028,679 |
| 2010 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $35,189,653 | $219,614,612 |
| 1998 | Titanic | $33,315,278 | $674,460,013 |
| 2016 | Daddy’s Home | $29,205,583 | $150,357,137 |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $28,180,378 | $379,021,990 |
| 2010 | Little Fockers | $25,766,485 | $148,438,600 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: D’Arcy Corrigan (1870, turned 154 this year), Walter Baldwin (1889, turned 135 this year), Dziga Vertov (1896, died on February 12, 1954 at the age of 58), Anna Lee (1913, died on May 14, 2004 at the age of 91), Harold Bradley (1926, died on January 31, 2019 at the age of 93), John Considine (1935, turned 89 this year), Christopher Durang (1949, died on April 3, 2024 at the age of 75), Tadeusz Bradecki (1955, died on January 24, 2022 at the age of 67), John Bedford Lloyd (1956, turned 68 this year), Joanna Pacula (1957, turned 67 this year), Neal Jones (1960, turned 64 this year), Todd Haynes (1961, turned 63 this year), Kate Hodge (1966, turned 58 this year), Tia Carrere (1967, turned 57 this year), James Marshall (1967, turned 57 this year), Cuba Gooding, Jr. (1968, turned 56 this year), Evan Parke (1968, turned 56 this year), Tommy Morrison (1969, turned 55 this year), Christy Turlington (1969, turned 55 this year), Patrick Huard (1969, turned 55 this year), Taye Diggs (1971, turned 53 this year), Renee Elise Goldsberry (1971, turned 53 this year), Lucy Davis (1973, turned 51 this year), Dax Shepard (1975, turned 49 this year), Dan Cadan (1975, turned 49 this year), Paz Vega (1976, turned 48 this year), Patricia De Leon (1978, turned 46 this year), Karina Smirnoff (1978, turned 46 this year), Erica Hubbard (1979, turned 45 this year), Catherine Bailey (1980, turned 44 this year), Dustin Clare (1982, turned 42 this year), Kate Bosworth (1983, turned 41 this year), Kristen Hager (1984, turned 40 this year), Peter Gadiot (1986, turned 38 this year), Shelley Hennig (1987, turned 37 this year), Lauren Storm (1987, turned 37 this year), Ben Hardy (1991, turned 33 this year), Alden Richards (1992, turned 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jack Carson (1963, at the age of 52), Dick Powell (1963, at the age of 58), Una Merkel (1986, at the age of 82), Lynn Cartwright (2004, at the age of 76), Osa Massen (2006, at the age of 91), George MacDonald Fraser (2008, at the age of 82), Steven Gilborn (2009, at the age of 72), Anne Francis (2011, at the age of 80), Pete Postlethwaite (2011, at the age of 64), Michel Delpech (2016, at the age of 69), Bob Einstein (2019, at the age of 76), Ken Block (2023, at the age of 76)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.