On This Day - December 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | Saturday | $68,294,204 | $936,662,225 |
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Sunday | $64,232,578 | $814,811,535 |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Friday | $36,486,725 | $176,293,465 |
| 2009 | Avatar | Saturday | $25,529,036 | $785,221,649 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Friday | $21,811,549 | $381,518,844 |
| 2017 | Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi | Tuesday | $20,254,189 | $620,181,382 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Wednesday | $18,214,211 | $319,232,617 |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Monday | $17,596,150 | $533,539,991 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Friday | $16,563,371 | $255,119,788 |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Monday | $16,257,078 | $688,809,501 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Friday | $36,486,725 | $176,293,465 |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Wednesday | $18,214,211 | $319,232,617 |
| 2025 | David | Friday | $9,662,302 | $41,804,413 |
| 1997 | Titanic | Friday | $8,658,814 | $674,460,013 |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | Friday | $8,570,000 | $125,304,276 |
| 2025 | The Housemaid | Friday | $8,019,221 | $31,060,430 |
| 2008 | Yes Man | Friday | $6,495,077 | $97,690,976 |
| 2025 | The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants | Friday | $6,003,950 | $30,811,000 |
| 2014 | Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Friday | $5,655,945 | $113,746,621 |
| 2014 | Annie | Friday | $5,289,149 | $85,911,262 |
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 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | $260,138,569 | $814,811,535 |
| 2015 | Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens | $247,966,675 | $936,662,225 |
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | $89,160,860 | $176,293,465 |
| 2009 | Avatar | $77,025,481 | $785,221,649 |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | $72,629,713 | $381,518,844 |
| 2014 | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | $54,724,334 | $255,119,788 |
| 2010 | Tron: Legacy | $44,026,211 | $172,062,763 |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events | $30,061,756 | $118,627,117 |
| 1997 | Titanic | $28,638,131 | $674,460,013 |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never Dies | $25,143,007 | $125,304,276 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2031: Avatar 5
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Ralph Richardson (1902, died on October 10, 1983 at the age of 80), Lee Rich (1918, died on May 24, 2012 at the age of 93), Gordon Jackson (1923, died on January 15, 1990 at the age of 66), Cicely Tyson (1924, died on January 28, 2021 at the age of 96), Edmund Purdom (1924, died on January 1, 2009 at the age of 84), Gary Morton (1924, died on March 30, 1999 at the age of 74), Robert B. Sherman (1925, died on March 6, 2012 at the age of 86), James Booth (1927, died on August 11, 2005 at the age of 77), Howard Sackler (1929, died on October 12, 1982 at the age of 52), Wayne Tippit (1932, died on April 28, 2009 at the age of 76), A.B.Yehoshua (1936, died on June 14, 2022 at the age of 85), Peter H. Hunt (1938, died on April 26, 2020 at the age of 81), Sam Kelly (1943, died on June 14, 2014 at the age of 70), Tim Reid (1944, turned 81 this year), Elaine Joyce (1945, turned 80 this year), Jack Fisk (1945, turned 80 this year), Robert Urich (1946, died on April 16, 2002 at the age of 55), John Gulager (1957, turned 68 this year), Mike Lookinland (1960, turned 65 this year), Scott Cohen (1961, turned 64 this year), Gary Fleder (1962, turned 63 this year), Jill Talley (1962, turned 63 this year), Aki Aleong (1962, died on June 24, 2025 at the age of 62), Til Schweiger (1963, turned 62 this year), Jennifer Beals (1963, turned 62 this year), Paul Rhys (1963, turned 62 this year), Beatrice Dalle (1964, turned 61 this year), Jessica Steen (1965, turned 60 this year), Robert MacNaughton (1966, turned 59 this year), Ken Marino (1968, turned 57 this year), Kristy Swanson (1969, turned 56 this year), Lauren Sanchez (1969, turned 56 this year), Tyson Beckford (1970, turned 55 this year), Alyssa Milano (1972, turned 53 this year), Rosa Blasi (1972, turned 53 this year), Blake Lindsley (1973, turned 52 this year), Claire Cox (1975, turned 50 this year), Mahie Gill (1975, turned 50 this year), Patrick Casey (1978, turned 47 this year), A.J. Tesler (1978, turned 47 this year), Tara Summers (1979, turned 46 this year), Marla Sokoloff (1980, turned 45 this year), Jake Gyllenhaal (1980, turned 45 this year), Amy Locane (1983, turned 42 this year), Annie Murphy (1986, turned 39 this year), Natalia de Molina (1989, turned 36 this year), Libe Barer (1991, turned 34 this year), Hermione Corfield (1993, turned 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Emily Bronte (1848, at the age of 30), Jacques Tourneur (1977, at the age of 73), Paul Maxwell (1991, at the age of 70), Marcello Mastroianni (1996, at the age of 72), Michael Alldredge (1997, at the age of 56), Desmond Llewelyn (1999, at the age of 85), Hope Lange (2003, at the age of 70), Les Tremayne (2003, at the age of 90), Ned Vizzini (2013, at the age of 32), Dick Latessa (2016, at the age of 87), Richard Venture (2017, at the age of 94), Audrey Geisel (2018, at the age of 97), David Giler (2020, at the age of 77), Rosalind Knight (2020, at the age of 87), James Ransone (2025, at the age of 46), Helen Siff (2025, at the age of 46)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.