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 |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | Saturday | $9,246,422 | $65,014,513 |
| 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 |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Friday | $6,572,968 | $93,932,896 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Saturday | $6,028,707 | $111,110,575 |
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 |
| 2002 | Drumline | Friday | $4,125,718 | $56,398,162 |
| 2002 | The Hot Chick | Friday | $2,598,364 | $35,081,550 |
| 2019 | Black Christmas | Friday | $1,809,875 | $10,429,730 |
| 2019 | Richard Jewell | Friday | $1,557,411 | $22,345,542 |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Friday | $212,201 | $50,023,780 |
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 |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | $24,208,916 | $104,400,899 |
| 2014 | Exodus: Gods and Kings | $24,115,934 | $65,014,513 |
| 2013 | Frozen | $22,568,138 | $400,953,009 |
| 1998 | Star Trek: Insurrection | $22,052,836 | $70,187,658 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | $19,072,948 | $477,373,578 |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | $18,711,407 | $93,932,896 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, Karate Kid
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 109 this year), Don Taylor (1920, died on December 29, 1998 at the age of 78), Dick Van Dyke (1925, turns 99 this year), Genevieve Page (1927, turns 97 this year), 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 92 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 79 this year), Darlene Cates (1947, died on March 26, 2017 at the age of 69), Ted Nugent (1948, turns 76 this year), Robert Lindsay (1949, turns 75 this year), Paula Wilcox (1949, turns 75 this year), Wendie Malick (1950, turns 74 this year), Afemo Omilami (1950, turns 74 this year), Juan Fernandez (1956, turns 68 this year), Steve Buscemi (1957, turns 67 this year), Billy Van Zandt (1957, turns 67 this year), Amy Stoch (1958, turns 66 this year), Lynn-Holly Johnson (1958, turns 66 this year), Rusty Cundieff (1960, turns 64 this year), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961, turns 63 this year), NeNe Leakes (1966, turns 58 this year), Jamie Foxx (1967, turns 57 this year), Scott Stuber (1968, turns 56 this year), Tony Curran (1969, turns 55 this year), Bart Johnson (1970, turns 54 this year), Vasco Nunes (1974, died on March 11, 2016 at the age of 41), Richard Hillman (1974, turns 50 this year), James Kyson (1975, turns 49 this year), Charlie Talbert (1978, turns 46 this year), Tanya van Graan (1983, turns 41 this year), Satya Bhabha (1983, turns 41 this year), Laurence Leboeuf (1985, turns 39 this year), Michael Socha (1987, turns 37 this year), Taylor Swift (1989, turns 35 this year), Emily Peachey (1990, turns 34 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 64), 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)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.