On This Day - December 7

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on December 7.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2024 Moana 2 Saturday $23,134,944 $460,405,297
2019 Frozen II Saturday $16,050,532 $477,373,578
2024 Wicked Saturday $15,087,045 $474,983,975
2013 Frozen Saturday $15,063,237 $400,953,009
2025 Zootopia 2 Sunday $13,914,795 $232,670,004
2001 Ocean’s Eleven Friday $13,300,000 $183,417,150
2025 Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Sunday $13,248,515 $75,981,015
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Saturday $11,922,878 $424,668,047
2007 The Golden Compass Friday $8,689,000 $70,107,728
2003 The Last Samurai Sunday $6,686,637 $111,110,575

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on December 7.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2001 Ocean’s Eleven Friday $13,300,000 $183,417,150
2007 The Golden Compass Friday $8,689,000 $70,107,728
2012 Playing for Keeps Friday $2,127,859 $13,103,272
2023 Waitress: The Musical Thursday $672,105 $5,402,148
2007 Atonement Friday $243,000 $50,980,159
2018 Kedarnath Friday $116,574 $893,582
2018 Mary Queen of Scots Friday $67,992 $16,648,499
2018 Vox Lux Friday $67,967 $727,119
2018 Ben is Back Friday $25,197 $3,703,182
2012 Hyde Park on Hudson Friday $23,371 $6,376,145

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 7.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2025 Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 $64,007,430 $75,981,015
2024 Moana 2 $51,287,053 $460,405,297
2025 Zootopia 2 $43,433,854 $232,670,004
2001 Ocean’s Eleven $38,107,822 $183,417,150
2024 Wicked $36,448,420 $474,983,975
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
2007 The Golden Compass $25,783,232 $70,107,728
2003 The Last Samurai $24,271,354 $111,110,575

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Fay Bainter (1893, died on April 16, 1968 at the age of 74), Clarence Nash (1904, died on February 20, 1985 at the age of 80), Louis Prima (1910, died on August 24, 1978 at the age of 67), Eli Wallach (1915, died on June 24, 2014 at the age of 98), Leigh Brackett (1915, died on March 18, 1978 at the age of 62), Timuel Black (1918, died on October 13, 2021 at the age of 102), Jack Couffer (1924, died on July 30, 2021 at the age of 96), Ellen Burstyn (1932, turned 93 this year), Kenneth Colley (1937, turned 88 this year), Sue Johnston (1943, turned 82 this year), Clive Russell (1945, turned 80 this year), Tom Waits (1946, turned 79 this year), Rosalind Ayres (1946, turned 79 this year), Sulevi Peltola (1946, died on January 28, 2025 at the age of 78), James Keach (1947, turned 78 this year), Tony Thomas (1948, turned 77 this year), Georges Corraface (1952, turned 73 this year), Priscilla Barnes (1954, turned 71 this year), Mark Rolston (1956, turned 69 this year), Abdellatif Kechiche (1960, turned 65 this year), Patrick Fabian (1964, turned 61 this year), Hugo E. Blick (1964, turned 61 this year), Jeffrey Wright (1965, turned 60 this year), C. Thomas Howell (1966, turned 59 this year), Derrick Borte (1967, turned 58 this year), Bryan Johnson (1967, turned 58 this year), Patrice O'Neal (1969, turned 56 this year), Christa Campbell (1972, turned 53 this year), Mark Duplass (1976, turned 49 this year), Shiri Appleby (1978, turned 47 this year), Kristofer Hivju (1978, turned 47 this year), Jeff Nichols (1978, turned 47 this year), Ayako Fujitani (1979, turned 46 this year), Sara Bareilles (1979, turned 46 this year), Jennifer Carpenter (1979, turned 46 this year), Eric Bauza (1979, turned 46 this year), Jack Huston (1982, turned 43 this year), Aaron Carter (1987, died on November 5, 2022 at the age of 34), Emily Browning (1988, turned 37 this year), Nicholas Hoult (1989, turned 36 this year), Caleb Landry-Jones (1989, turned 36 this year)

Died on this day in history: Joan Bennett (1990, at the age of 80), Harry Morgan (2011, at the age of 96), Steve Reevis (2017, at the age of 55), Zaza Urushadze (2019, at the age of 54), Natalie Desselle Reid (2020, at the age of 53), Eduardo Galvão (2020, at the age of 57), Harold Budd (2020, at the age of 84), Natalie Desselle (2020, at the age of 53), Greg Tate (2021, at the age of 64), Jan Nowicki (2022, at the age of 83), Keisha Whitaker (2023, at the age of 51)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.