On This Day - December 5
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | Friday | $29,957,030 | $73,644,130 |
| 2025 | Zootopia 2 | Friday | $10,289,994 | $230,146,387 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | Saturday | $8,547,892 | $255,959,475 |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | Sunday | $8,460,000 | $245,852,179 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Saturday | $8,301,010 | $281,723,902 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Friday | $8,200,000 | $111,110,575 |
| 1998 | A Bug’s Life | Saturday | $7,928,279 | $162,798,565 |
| 2015 | The Good Dinosaur | Saturday | $7,229,222 | $123,087,120 |
| 2015 | Creed | Saturday | $6,724,507 | $109,767,581 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Friday | $6,662,680 | $337,135,885 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | Friday | $29,957,030 | $73,644,130 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | Friday | $8,200,000 | $111,110,575 |
| 2003 | Honey | Friday | $5,000,000 | $30,272,254 |
| 2025 | Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution | Friday | $4,946,161 | $10,682,691 |
| 2024 | Pushpa: The Rule — Part 2 | Thursday | $4,500,000 | $13,000,000 |
| 2008 | Punisher: War Zone | Friday | $1,665,020 | $8,050,977 |
| 2025 | Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair | Friday | $1,479,680 | $4,109,511 |
| 2008 | Cadillac Records | Friday | $1,211,421 | $8,195,551 |
| 2024 | For King + Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas | Thursday | $563,148 | $2,827,417 |
| 2025 | Merrily We Roll Along | Friday | $495,593 | $1,898,947 |
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 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 | $64,007,430 | $73,644,130 |
| 2025 | Zootopia 2 | $43,433,854 | $230,146,387 |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | $27,760,276 | $245,852,179 |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | $24,271,354 | $111,110,575 |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | $22,026,762 | $337,135,885 |
| 2010 | Tangled | $21,608,891 | $200,821,936 |
| 2009 | The Blind Side | $20,043,181 | $255,959,475 |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | $18,857,547 | $281,723,902 |
| 2025 | Wicked: For Good | $17,355,160 | $302,272,885 |
| 1998 | A Bug’s Life | $17,174,218 | $162,798,565 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fritz Lang (1890, died on August 2, 1976 at the age of 85), Walt Disney (1901, died on December 15, 1966 at the age of 65), Otto Preminger (1905, died on April 23, 1986 at the age of 80), Little Richard (1932, died on May 9, 2020 at the age of 87), Joan Didion (1934, died on December 23, 2021 at the age of 87), Aldo Lado (1934, died on November 25, 2023 at the age of 88), Adrian Street (1940, died on July 31, 2023 at the age of 82), Jeroen Krabbe (1944, turned 81 this year), Donald Ranvaud (1953, died on September 5, 2016 at the age of 62), Brian Backer (1956, turned 69 this year), Marcelino Sanchez (1957, turned 68 this year), Carrie Hamilton (1963, died on January 20, 2002 at the age of 38), Johan Renck (1966, turned 59 this year), Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (1967, turned 58 this year), Lisa Marie (1968, turned 57 this year), Margaret Cho (1968, turned 57 this year), Lynne Ramsay (1969, turned 56 this year), Eric Etebari (1969, turned 56 this year), Walt Dohrn (1970, turned 55 this year), Dolly Wells (1971, turned 54 this year), Kali Rocha (1971, turned 54 this year), Linus Sandgren (1972, turned 53 this year), Shalom Harlow (1973, turned 52 this year), Brad Carter (1973, turned 52 this year), Lisa Sheridan (1974, died on February 25, 2019 at the age of 44), Lisa Sheridan (1974, died on February 25, 2019 at the age of 44), Paula Patton (1975, turned 50 this year), Amy Acker (1976, turned 49 this year), Armando Riesco (1977, turned 48 this year), Nick Stahl (1979, turned 46 this year), Jessica Pare (1980, turned 45 this year), Lydia Leonard (1980, turned 45 this year), Kailin See (1980, turned 45 this year), Adan Canto (1981, died on January 8, 2024 at the age of 42), Gabriel Luna (1982, turned 43 this year), Lauren London (1984, turned 41 this year), Frankie Muniz (1985, turned 40 this year), Kyle McCarley (1985, turned 40 this year), Ben Levin (1987, turned 38 this year), Ross Bagley (1988, turned 37 this year), Daniel K. Isaac (1988, turned 37 this year), Gregory Tyree Boyce (1989, turned 36 this year), Najarra Townsend (1989, turned 36 this year)
Died on this day in history: Robert Aldrich (1983, at the age of 65), Nina Foch (2008, at the age of 84), Beverly Garland (2008, at the age of 82), Bob Dole (2021, at the age of 98), Alfonso Santagata (2021, at the age of 80), Kirstie Alley (2022, at the age of 71), Lawrence Steven Meyers (2023, at the age of 67), Norman Lear (2023, at the age of 101), Frank Gehry (2025, at the age of 96)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.