On This Day - December 30
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Wednesday | $28,085,057 | $936,662,225 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Friday | $24,836,835 | $684,075,767 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Thursday | $20,717,908 | $814,811,535 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Saturday | $19,924,241 | $620,181,382 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Saturday | $19,398,126 | $404,508,916 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Wednesday | $18,466,123 | $785,221,649 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Friday | $18,224,317 | $533,539,991 |
| 2016 | Sing | Friday | $16,920,650 | $270,329,045 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | Sunday | $16,440,551 | $335,061,807 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Monday | $15,302,130 | $515,202,542 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | Friday | $77,235 | $29,959,436 |
| 2015 | Anomalisa | Wednesday | $51,682 | $3,759,286 |
| 2022 | A Man Called Otto | Friday | $22,790 | $64,267,657 |
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 30.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $67,409,155 | $684,075,767 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | $52,520,140 | $620,181,382 |
| 2018 | Aquaman | $52,114,571 | $335,061,807 |
| 2017 | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | $50,051,364 | $404,508,916 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | $49,609,002 | $533,539,991 |
| 2016 | Sing | $42,896,330 | $270,329,045 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | $38,695,582 | $318,651,105 |
| 2006 | Night at the Museum | $36,766,905 | $250,863,268 |
| 2007 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets | $36,672,708 | $219,961,501 |
| 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | $31,926,068 | $303,003,568 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Sir Carol Reed (1906, died on April 25, 1976 at the age of 69), Jeanette Nolan (1911, died on June 5, 1998 at the age of 86), Robert Hossein (1927, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 93), Dan Fitzgerald (1928, died on November 21, 2017 at the age of 88), Joseph Bologna (1934, died on August 13, 2017 at the age of 82), Russ Tamblyn (1934, turns 90 this year), Jack Riley (1935, died on August 19, 2016 at the age of 80), James Burrows (1940, turns 84 this year), Fred Ward (1942, died on May 8, 2022 at the age of 79), Betty Aberlin (1942, turns 82 this year), Concetta Tomei (1945, turns 79 this year), Lloyd Kaufman (1945, turns 79 this year), Michael Burns (1947, turns 77 this year), Kim Hae-sook (1955, turns 69 this year), Sheryl Lee Ralph (1956, turns 68 this year), Patricia Kalember (1956, turns 68 this year), Glenn Robbins (1957, turns 67 this year), Matt Lauer (1957, turns 67 this year), Pedro Costa (1958, turns 66 this year), Tracey Ullman (1959, turns 65 this year), George Newbern (1964, turns 60 this year), Sophie Ward (1964, turns 60 this year), Bennett Miller (1966, turns 58 this year), Akosua Busia (1966, turns 58 this year), Bryan Burk (1968, turns 56 this year), Meredith Monroe (1969, turns 55 this year), C.S. Lee (1971, turns 53 this year), Daniel Sunjata (1971, turns 53 this year), Steven Wiig (1972, turns 52 this year), Eddie Mills (1972, turns 52 this year), Jason Behr (1973, turns 51 this year), Zahf Paroo (1975, turns 49 this year), Tiger Woods (1975, turns 49 this year), Lucy Punch (1977, turns 47 this year), Laila Ali (1977, turns 47 this year), Tyrese Gibson (1978, turns 46 this year), Catherine Taber (1979, turns 45 this year), Yelawolf (1979, turns 45 this year), Eliza Dushku (1980, turns 44 this year), Jazmyn Simon (1980, turns 44 this year), Kristin Kreuk (1982, turns 42 this year), Ashley Zukerman (1983, turns 41 this year), LeBron James (1984, turns 40 this year), Anna Wood (1985, turns 39 this year), Caity Lotz (1986, turns 38 this year), Faye Marsay (1986, turns 38 this year), Jena Sims (1988, turns 36 this year), Lyliana Wray (2004, turns 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Lew Ayres (1996, at the age of 88), Jack Nance (1996, at the age of 53), Julius J. Epstein (2000, at the age of 91), Mary Brian (2002, at the age of 96), Vishnuvardhan (2009, at the age of 59), Jack Garfein (2019, at the age of 89), Elizabeth Sellars (2019, at the age of 98), Syd Mead (2019, at the age of 86), Dawn Wells (2020, at the age of 82), Mike Fenton (2020, at the age of 82), Renato Scarpa (2021, at the age of 82), Denis O'Dell (2021, at the age of 97), Stephen Lawrence (2021, at the age of 82), Barbara Walters (2022, at the age of 93), Tom Wilkinson (2023, at the age of 75), John Pilger (2023, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.