On This Day - December 6
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Saturday | $9,914,689 | $337,135,885 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Saturday | $9,195,348 | $111,110,575 |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Friday | $7,816,954 | $477,373,578 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Friday | $7,775,778 | $424,668,047 |
| 2008 | Four Christmases | Saturday | $6,969,302 | $120,146,040 |
| 2013 | Frozen | Friday | $6,723,820 | $400,953,009 |
| 2008 | Twilight | Saturday | $5,341,803 | $192,769,854 |
| 2003 | Honey | Saturday | $5,340,500 | $30,272,254 |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Saturday | $5,300,379 | $83,350,911 |
| 1998 | A Bug’s Life | Sunday | $5,239,188 | $162,798,565 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Analyze That | Friday | $3,765,000 | $32,122,249 |
| 2002 | Empire | Friday | $2,177,000 | $17,504,595 |
| 2002 | Equilibrium | Friday | $186,000 | $1,190,018 |
| 2019 | PLAYMOBIL | Friday | $174,657 | $1,115,008 |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Friday | $123,340 | $13,248,209 |
| 2019 | En Brazos de un Asesino | Friday | $67,686 | $425,332 |
| 2019 | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Friday | $18,180 | $3,759,854 |
| 2019 | Midnight Family | Friday | $831 | $42,310 |
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 6.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Frozen II | $35,165,614 | $477,373,578 |
| 2013 | Frozen | $31,616,230 | $400,953,009 |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | $26,185,886 | $424,668,047 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | $24,271,354 | $111,110,575 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | $22,026,762 | $337,135,885 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | $20,043,181 | $255,959,475 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | $18,857,547 | $281,723,902 |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | $18,162,837 | $74,888,996 |
| 1998 | A Bug’s Life | $17,174,218 | $162,798,565 |
| 2008 | Four Christmases | $16,755,478 | $120,146,040 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: The End, Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-, The Invisible Raptor, Laufey’s A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl, Oh, Canada, You Are Not Me, Obsessed with Light, The Return, The Wall Street Boy, Power Alley, Lake George, Hard Truths, Trailer Park Boys Presents: Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties, Hounds, Mr. Santa: A Christmas Extravaganza, Nightb*tch, Six Triple Eight, Werewolves, F Marry Kill, Y2K, Year 10, The Order, Love Lies, Unstoppable: The Anthony Robles Story, Get Away
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Agnes Moorehead (1900, died on April 30, 1974 at the age of 73), Sergio Corbucci (1926, turns 98 this year), Vladimir Naumov (1927, died on November 29, 2021 at the age of 93), Alain Tanner (1929, died on September 11, 2022 at the age of 92), Jack Fincher (1930, died on April 10, 2003 at the age of 72), Robert Getchell (1936, died on October 21, 2017 at the age of 80), David Ossman (1936, turns 88 this year), Patricia Carr (1937, turns 87 this year), Patrick Bauchau (1938, turns 86 this year), Richard Edlund (1940, turns 84 this year), Leon Russom (1941, turns 83 this year), Arnon Milchan (1944, turns 80 this year), Shekhar Kapur (1945, turns 79 this year), James Naughton (1945, turns 79 this year), JoBeth Williams (1948, turns 76 this year), Gina Hecht (1952, turns 72 this year), Tom Hulce (1953, turns 71 this year), Steven Wright (1955, turns 69 this year), Nick Park (1958, turns 66 this year), Janine Turner (1962, turns 62 this year), Colin Salmon (1962, turns 62 this year), Ulrich Thomsen (1963, turns 61 this year), Jens Hulten (1963, turns 61 this year), Judd Apatow (1967, turns 57 this year), Oliver Masucci (1968, turns 56 this year), Torri Higginson (1969, turns 55 this year), Craig Brewer (1971, turns 53 this year), Craig Brewer (1971, turns 53 this year), Sarah Rafferty (1972, turns 52 this year), Noel Clarke (1975, turns 49 this year), Lindsay Price (1976, turns 48 this year), Colleen Haskell (1976, turns 48 this year), K.D. Aubert (1978, turns 46 this year), Jack Thorne (1978, turns 46 this year), Tommy Wirkola (1979, turns 45 this year), Ryan Kennedy (1982, turns 42 this year), Nora Kirkpatrick (1984, turns 40 this year), America Young (1984, turns 40 this year), Max Kasch (1985, turns 39 this year), Jack De Sena (1987, turns 37 this year), Sabrina Ouazani (1988, turns 36 this year), Stefanie Scott (1996, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: Janet Munro (1972, at the age of 38), Roy Orbison (1988, at the age of 52), John Payne (1989, at the age of 77), Don Ameche (1993, at the age of 85), Gian Maria Volontè (1994, at the age of 61), Holly Woodlawn (2015, at the age of 69), Nicholas Smith (2015, at the age of 81), Peter Vaughan (2016, at the age of 93), Conrad Brooks (2017, at the age of 86), Tim Rossovich (2018, at the age of 72), Ron Leibman (2019, at the age of 82), Marisa Pavan (2023, at the age of 91), Ellen Holly (2023, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.