On This Day - January 15
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | Saturday | $12,655,507 | $98,780,042 |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | Friday | $11,905,330 | $90,862,685 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Sunday | $11,727,060 | $684,075,767 |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Friday | $11,672,970 | $94,835,059 |
| 2010 | Avatar | Friday | $10,394,264 | $785,221,649 |
| 2022 | Scream | Saturday | $10,174,839 | $81,641,405 |
| 2005 | Coach Carter | Saturday | $9,498,710 | $67,264,877 |
| 2016 | The Revenant | Friday | $9,292,852 | $183,637,894 |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Saturday | $8,689,649 | $814,811,535 |
| 2005 | Meet the Fockers | Saturday | $8,227,615 | $279,167,575 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | Friday | $11,905,330 | $90,862,685 |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Friday | $11,672,970 | $94,835,059 |
| 2016 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi | Friday | $5,894,565 | $52,853,219 |
| 1999 | Varsity Blues | Friday | $5,210,000 | $52,894,169 |
| 2010 | The Spy Next Door | Friday | $2,410,798 | $24,307,106 |
| 1999 | At First Sight | Friday | $2,220,000 | $22,365,133 |
| 2020 | Weathering with You (天気の子) | Wednesday | $1,594,427 | $8,056,636 |
| 2016 | Norm of the North | Friday | $1,581,507 | $17,062,499 |
| 1999 | Virus | Friday | $1,565,000 | $14,010,690 |
| 2021 | The Marksman | Friday | $1,050,151 | $15,566,093 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was January 15.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Avatar | $42,785,612 | $785,221,649 |
| 2016 | Ride Along 2 | $35,243,095 | $90,862,685 |
| 2011 | The Green Hornet | $33,526,876 | $98,780,042 |
| 2023 | Avatar: The Way of Water | $32,824,684 | $684,075,767 |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | $32,789,494 | $94,835,059 |
| 2016 | The Revenant | $31,796,633 | $183,637,894 |
| 2022 | Scream | $30,018,805 | $81,641,405 |
| 2016 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $26,342,117 | $936,662,225 |
| 2012 | Contraband | $24,349,815 | $66,528,000 |
| 2005 | Coach Carter | $24,182,960 | $67,264,877 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: Children of Blood and Bone, Untitled Blumhouse Event Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Ernest Thesiger (1879, turned 146 this year), William Beaudine (1892, died on March 18, 1970 at the age of 78), Torin Thatcher (1905, died on March 4, 1981 at the age of 76), Lloyd Bridges (1913, died on March 10, 1998 at the age of 85), Maria Schell (1926, died on April 26, 2005 at the age of 79), William Mims (1927, turned 98 this year), Victor Paul (1927, died on September 13, 2011 at the age of 84), Derek Meddings (1931, died on September 10, 1995 at the age of 64), Joe Dorsey (1932, turned 93 this year), Victor Campos (1935, turned 90 this year), Philip Rosenberg (1935, turned 90 this year), Margaret O'Brien (1937, turned 88 this year), Ray Henwood (1937, died on August 26, 2019 at the age of 82), Julian Mateos (1938, died on December 27, 1996 at the age of 58), Dick Ziker (1940, turned 85 this year), Angela Morant (1941, turned 84 this year), Geoffrey Beevers (1941, turned 84 this year), Barbara Tarbuck (1942, died on December 26, 2016 at the age of 74), Kirin Kiki (1943, died on September 15, 2018 at the age of 75), Andrea Martin (1947, turned 78 this year), Alan Shearman (1947, turned 78 this year), Tom Nolan (1948, turned 77 this year), Pritish Nandy (1951, died on January 8, 2025 at the age of 73), Reine Brynolfsson (1953, turned 72 this year), Tonita Castro (1953, died on May 8, 2016 at the age of 63), Mayumi Tanaka (1955, turned 70 this year), Mario Van Peebles (1957, turned 68 this year), Gakuryû Ishii (1957, turned 68 this year), Robin Mullins (1958, turned 67 this year), Kelly Asbury (1960, died on June 26, 2020 at the age of 60), Ralph Herforth (1960, turned 65 this year), Margherita Buy (1962, turned 63 this year), Danny Sembello (1963, died on August 15, 2015 at the age of 52), Craig Fairbrass (1964, turned 61 this year), James Nesbitt (1965, turned 60 this year), Chad Lowe (1968, turned 57 this year), Alex Lowe (1968, turned 57 this year), Marco Manetti (1968, turned 57 this year), Kellita Smith (1969, turned 56 this year), Meret Becker (1969, turned 56 this year), Jonas Pate (1970, turned 55 this year), Josh Pate (1970, turned 55 this year), Regina King (1971, turned 54 this year), Eric Jacobson (1971, turned 54 this year), Lara Cazalet (1971, turned 54 this year), Ernie Reyes, Jr. (1972, turned 53 this year), Dorian Missick (1976, turned 49 this year), Jimmy Smagula (1976, turned 49 this year), Sampath Raj (1976, turned 49 this year), Ronald Zehrfeld (1977, turned 48 this year), Jennifer Prediger (1977, turned 48 this year), Jamie Clayton (1978, turned 47 this year), Eddie Cahill (1978, turned 47 this year), Trent Ford (1979, turned 46 this year), Drew Brees (1979, turned 46 this year), Heidi Hawking (1980, turned 45 this year), Page Leong (1980, turned 45 this year), Pitbull (1981, turned 44 this year), Charleene Closshey (1981, turned 44 this year), Rich Paul (1981, turned 44 this year), Jade Healy (1981, turned 44 this year), Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (1982, turned 43 this year), Neil Nitin Mukesh (1982, turned 43 this year), Jana Kaderabkova (1982, turned 43 this year), Lena Lauzemis (1983, turned 42 this year), Victor Rasuk (1984, turned 41 this year), Ben Shapiro (1984, turned 41 this year), Evan Dumouchel (1984, turned 41 this year), Jessy Schram (1986, turned 39 this year), Vikram Prabhu (1986, turned 39 this year), Michael Seater (1987, turned 38 this year), Barbie Blank (1987, turned 38 this year), Skrillex (1988, turned 37 this year), Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (1988, turned 37 this year), Ryan Corr (1989, turned 36 this year), Chris Warren (1990, turned 35 this year), Lulu Popplewell (1991, turned 34 this year), Dove Cameron (1996, turned 29 this year), Karis Cameron (1996, turned 29 this year), Grace VanderWaal (2004, turned 21 this year), Sanai Victoria (2007, turned 18 this year), Christopher Convery (2008, turned 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: Shepperd Strudwick (1983, at the age of 75), Ray Bolger (1987, at the age of 83), Gordon Jackson (1990, at the age of 66), Fran Ryan (2000, at the age of 83), Leo Marks (2001, at the age of 80), Barbara Kelly (2007, at the age of 82), Brad Renfro (2008, at the age of 25), Susannah York (2011, at the age of 72), Nagisa Ôshima (2013, at the age of 80), Roger Lloyd-Pack (2014, at the age of 19), Dan Haggerty (2016, at the age of 74), Dolores O’Riordan (2018, at the age of 46), Peter Wyngarde (2018, at the age of 90), Carol Channing (2019, at the age of 97), Bill Anagnos (2019, at the age of 60), Anthony Rhulen (2021, at the age of 51), Jean-Claude Lord (2022, at the age of 78), Jeannot Szwarc (2025, at the age of 85)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.