On This Day - December 14

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 14.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Friday $37,125,547 $303,003,568
2007 I am Legend Friday $30,059,386 $256,393,010
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Saturday $24,430,416 $258,241,522
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level Saturday $23,610,586 $316,831,246
2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks Friday $13,300,713 $217,326,974
2018 Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D Friday $12,665,081 $190,173,195
2013 Frozen Saturday $10,144,815 $400,953,009
2005 King Kong Wednesday $9,755,745 $218,080,025
1997 Scream 2 Sunday $9,005,000 $101,363,301
2019 Frozen II Saturday $8,710,973 $477,373,578

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 14.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Friday $37,125,547 $303,003,568
2007 I am Legend Friday $30,059,386 $256,393,010
2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks Friday $13,300,713 $217,326,974
2018 Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D Friday $12,665,081 $190,173,195
2005 King Kong Wednesday $9,755,745 $218,080,025
2001 Vanilla Sky Friday $8,408,000 $100,614,858
2018 The Mule Friday $5,848,645 $103,804,407
2001 Not Another Teen Movie Friday $4,978,000 $37,882,551
2018 Mortal Engines Friday $2,818,295 $15,951,040
2007 The Kite Runner Friday $141,375 $15,800,078

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 14.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey $84,617,303 $303,003,568
2007 I am Legend $77,211,321 $256,393,010
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug $73,645,197 $258,241,522
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level $59,251,543 $316,831,246
2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks $44,307,417 $217,326,974
2018 Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D $35,363,376 $190,173,195
1997 Scream 2 $32,926,342 $101,363,301
2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still $30,480,153 $79,366,978
2001 Vanilla Sky $25,015,518 $100,614,858
2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings $24,115,934 $65,014,513

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Frances Bavier (1902, turns 122 this year), Laurence Naismith (1908, died on June 5, 1992 at the age of 83), Dan Dailey (1915, died on October 16, 1978 at the age of 62), Shirley Jackson (1916, died on August 8, 1965 at the age of 48), Marge Redmond (1924, died on February 10, 2020 at the age of 95), Abbe Lane (1932, turns 92 this year), Lee Remick (1935, died on July 2, 1991 at the age of 55), Lewis Arquette (1935, died on February 10, 2001 at the age of 65), Barbara Leigh Hunt (1935, turns 89 this year), Chris Harris (1942, turns 82 this year), Richard Kerr (1944, died on December 11, 2023 at the age of 78), Stanley Crouch (1945, died on September 16, 2020 at the age of 74), Patty Duke (1946, died on March 29, 2016 at the age of 69), Jane Birkin (1946, died on July 16, 2023 at the age of 76), Lynne Marie Stewart (1946, turns 78 this year), Dee Wallace (1948, turns 76 this year), Celia Weston (1951, turns 73 this year), John Lurie (1952, turns 72 this year), Jim Davidson (1953, turns 71 this year), James Horan (1954, turns 70 this year), Debbie Lee Carrington (1959, died on March 23, 2018 at the age of 58), Don Franklin (1960, turns 64 this year), Rebecca Gibney (1964, turns 60 this year), Dino Stamatopoulos (1964, turns 60 this year), Ted Raimi (1965, turns 59 this year), Peter Murnik (1965, turns 59 this year), Michael Stoyanov (1966, turns 58 this year), Noelle Beck (1968, turns 56 this year), Natascha McElhone (1969, turns 55 this year), Archie Kao (1969, turns 55 this year), Michaela Watkins (1971, turns 53 this year), Miranda Hart (1972, turns 52 this year), Jason Barry (1972, turns 52 this year), Hector Jimenez (1973, turns 51 this year), KaDee Strickland (1975, turns 49 this year), Tammy Blanchard (1976, turns 48 this year), Sophie Monk (1979, turns 45 this year), Tia Texada (1981, turns 43 this year), Christine Horne (1981, turns 43 this year), Matthew McNulty (1982, turns 42 this year), Jackson Rathbone (1984, turns 40 this year), Rana Daggubati (1984, turns 40 this year), Vanessa Hudgens (1988, turns 36 this year), Tori Kelly (1992, turns 32 this year), Kedar Williams-Stirling (1994, turns 30 this year), Joshua Rush (2001, turns 23 this year)

Died on this day in history: Verna Felton (1966, at the age of 76), Jock Mahoney (1989, at the age of 70), Myrna Loy (1993, at the age of 88), Norman Fell (1998, at the age of 74), Jeanne Crain (2003, at the age of 78), Peter O'Toole (2013, at the age of 81), Edmund Lyndeck (2015, at the age of 90), Bernard Fox (2016, at the age of 89), Neeraj Vora (2017, at the age of 54), Anna Karina (2019, at the age of 79), John Briley (2019, at the age of 94)

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