On This Day - January 22

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on January 22.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2010 Avatar Friday $9,028,494 $785,221,649
2017 Split Sunday $8,877,605 $138,141,585
2011 The Green Hornet Saturday $8,663,370 $98,780,042
2011 No Strings Attached Saturday $8,222,236 $70,662,220
2005 Are We There Yet? Saturday $7,883,103 $82,674,398
2015 American Sniper Thursday $7,656,492 $350,126,372
2010 Legion Friday $6,686,233 $40,168,080
2022 Spider-Man: No Way Home Saturday $6,518,119 $814,811,535
2006 Underworld: Evolution Sunday $6,163,867 $62,318,875
2023 Avatar: The Way of Water Sunday $6,007,938 $684,075,767

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on January 22.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2010 Legion Friday $6,686,233 $40,168,080
2016 Dirty Grandpa Friday $4,296,448 $35,593,113
2016 The Boy Friday $3,815,402 $35,819,556
2010 Tooth Fairy Friday $3,544,512 $60,022,256
2016 The 5th Wave Friday $3,489,019 $34,912,982
2010 Extraordinary Measures Friday $2,037,966 $12,482,741
2016 Yip Man 3 Friday $268,267 $2,679,437
2021 Our Friend Friday $85,010 $657,511
2016 Caged No More Friday $30,702 $114,959
2021 No Man’s Land Friday $18,713 $139,221

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 22.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2017 Split $40,010,975 $138,141,585
2010 Avatar $34,944,081 $785,221,649
2006 Underworld: Evolution $26,857,181 $62,318,875
2012 Underworld: Awakening $25,306,725 $62,321,039
2023 Avatar: The Way of Water $20,133,106 $684,075,767
2017 xXx: Return of Xander Cage $20,130,142 $44,898,413
2011 No Strings Attached $19,652,921 $70,662,220
2012 Red Tails $18,782,154 $49,876,377
2005 Are We There Yet? $18,575,214 $82,674,398
2011 The Green Hornet $17,677,565 $98,780,042

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: D.W. Griffith (1875, died on July 23, 1948 at the age of 73), Conrad Veidt (1893, died on April 3, 1943 at the age of 50), Sergei M. Eisenstein (1898, died on February 11, 1948 at the age of 50), George Balanchine (1904, died on April 30, 1983 at the age of 79), Ann Sothern (1909, died on March 15, 2001 at the age of 92), Diana Douglas (1923, died on July 3, 2015 at the age of 92), Diana Douglas (1923, died on July 3, 2015 at the age of 92), Walter Sparrow (1927, died on May 31, 2000 at the age of 73), Piper Laurie (1932, died on October 14, 2023 at the age of 91), Bill Bixby (1934, died on November 21, 1993 at the age of 59), Seymour Cassel (1935, died on April 7, 2019 at the age of 84), Sonny Chiba (1939, died on August 19, 2021 at the age of 82), John Hurt (1940, died on January 25, 2016 at the age of 76), Angela Winkler (1944, turned 80 this year), Jophery Brown (1945, died on January 11, 2014 at the age of 68), Michael Cristofer (1945, turned 79 this year), Jim Jarmusch (1953, turned 71 this year), Annie Gaybis (1953, turned 71 this year), Michael Kopsa (1956, turned 68 this year), Bogdan Stanoevitch (1958, died on January 12, 2021 at the age of 62), Linda Blair (1959, turned 65 this year), Tamra Davis (1962, turned 62 this year), Robert Mailhouse (1962, turned 62 this year), Neeraj Vora (1963, died on December 14, 2017 at the age of 54), Mark Lewis Jones (1964, turned 60 this year), Diane Lane (1965, turned 59 this year), Brian McCardie (1965, died on April 28, 2024 at the age of 59), Guy Fieri (1968, turned 56 this year), Raquel Cassidy (1968, turned 56 this year), Olivia D'Abo (1969, turned 55 this year), Dan Finnerty (1970, turned 54 this year), Katie Finneran (1971, turned 53 this year), Gabriel Macht (1972, turned 52 this year), Romi Park (1972, turned 52 this year), Katie Barberi (1972, turned 52 this year), Balthazar Getty (1975, turned 49 this year), Eugenia Yuan (1976, turned 48 this year), Jennifer Spence (1977, turned 47 this year), Matthew Newton (1977, turned 47 this year), Christopher Masterson (1980, turned 44 this year), Willa Ford (1981, turned 43 this year), O.T. Fagbenle (1981, turned 43 this year), August Wittgenstein (1981, turned 43 this year), Lilly McDowell (1981, turned 43 this year), Phoebe Strole (1983, turned 41 this year), Justin Hurwitz (1985, turned 39 this year), Tommy Knight (1993, turned 31 this year), Sami Gayle (1996, turned 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Telly Savalas (1994, at the age of 72), Ann Miller (2004, at the age of 80), Heath Ledger (2008, at the age of 28), Jean Simmons (2010, at the age of 80), James Mitchell (2010, at the age of 89), Luis Avalos (2014, at the age of 67), Ursula K. Le Guin (2018, at the age of 88), James Frawley (2019, at the age of 82), Dean Copkov (2019, at the age of 52), Hank Aaron (2021, at the age of 86), Walter Bernstein (2021, at the age of 101), Mario Pupella (2023, at the age of 77), Agusti Villaronga (2023, at the age of 69), Gary Graham (2024, at the age of 73)

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