On This Day - December 27
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Sunday | $43,145,665 | $936,662,225 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Friday | $26,069,973 | $515,202,542 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Monday | $24,770,593 | $814,115,070 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Sunday | $24,247,681 | $785,221,649 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Tuesday | $24,128,503 | $684,075,767 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Tuesday | $22,515,612 | $533,539,991 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Wednesday | $21,846,132 | $620,181,382 |
| 2016 | Sing | Tuesday | $17,515,525 | $270,329,045 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Saturday | $17,249,267 | $379,021,990 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Friday | $16,873,539 | $342,548,984 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Clemency | Friday | $12,426 | $364,716 |
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 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $149,202,860 | $936,662,225 |
| 2009 | Avatar | $75,617,133 | $785,221,649 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | $72,389,590 | $515,202,542 |
| 2009 | Sherlock Holmes | $62,304,277 | $209,028,679 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $50,598,104 | $379,021,990 |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | $48,875,549 | $342,548,984 |
| 2009 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $48,875,415 | $219,614,612 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $40,921,395 | $255,119,788 |
| 2015 | Daddy’s Home | $38,740,203 | $150,357,137 |
| 2008 | Marley & Me | $36,357,586 | $143,153,751 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Sydney Greenstreet (1879, died on January 18, 1954 at the age of 74), Thea von Harbou (1888, died on July 1, 1954 at the age of 65), Marlene Dietrich (1901, died on May 6, 1992 at the age of 90), Michel Piccoli (1925, died on May 12, 2020 at the age of 94), Tommy Rall (1929, died on October 6, 2020 at the age of 90), John Amos (1939, turns 85 this year), Aharon Ipalé (1941, died on June 27, 2016 at the age of 74), Jean-Claude Bouillon (1941, died on July 31, 2017 at the age of 75), Charmian Carr (1942, died on September 17, 2016 at the age of 73), Martine Marignac (1946, died on July 18, 2022 at the age of 75), Gerard Depardieu (1948, turns 76 this year), Charles Band (1951, turns 73 this year), Tovah Feldshuh (1952, turns 72 this year), Mandie Fletcher (1954, turns 70 this year), Barbara Crampton (1958, turns 66 this year), Maryam d'Abo (1960, turns 64 this year), Joe Mantello (1962, turns 62 this year), Gaspar Noe (1963, turns 61 this year), Theresa Randle (1964, turns 60 this year), Ian Gomez (1964, turns 60 this year), Salman Khan (1965, turns 59 this year), Eva LaRue (1966, turns 58 this year), Bill Goldberg (1966, turns 58 this year), Mitzi Martin (1968, turns 56 this year), Chyna (1969, died on April 20, 2016 at the age of 46), Sarah Vowell (1969, turns 55 this year), Savannah Guthrie (1971, turns 53 this year), Jason Hawes (1971, turns 53 this year), Thomas Wilson Brown (1972, turns 52 this year), Wilson Cruz (1973, turns 51 this year), Fumiko Orikasa (1974, turns 50 this year), Masi Oka (1974, turns 50 this year), Heather O'Rourke (1975, died on February 1, 1988 at the age of 12), Aaron Stanford (1976, turns 48 this year), Lisa Jakub (1978, turns 46 this year), Tom McKay (1979, turns 45 this year), Elizabeth Rodriguez (1980, turns 44 this year), Emilie de Ravin (1981, turns 43 this year), Jay Ellis (1981, turns 43 this year), Jessica Harmon (1985, turns 39 this year), Lily Cole (1987, turns 37 this year), Hera Hilmar (1988, turns 36 this year), Thea Trinidad (1990, turns 34 this year), Chloe Bridges (1991, turns 33 this year), Olivia Cooke (1993, turns 31 this year), Timothée Chalamet (1995, turns 29 this year), Jae Head (1996, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: Hoagy Carmichael (1981, at the age of 82), Hal Ashby (1988, at the age of 59), Julian Mateos (1996, at the age of 58), Pierre Clementi (1999, at the age of 57), George Roy Hill (2002, at the age of 80), Alan Bates (2003, at the age of 69), Harry Carey, Jr. (2012, at the age of 91), Haskell Wexler (2015, at the age of 93), Carrie Fisher (2016, at the age of 60), Claude Gensac (2016, at the age of 89), Patricia Ferreira (2023, at the age of 64)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.