On This Day - March 18
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Saturday | $62,706,808 | $504,014,165 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Friday | $14,800,000 | $75,941,727 |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Saturday | $12,500,000 | $125,548,685 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Saturday | $12,257,255 | $168,052,812 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Friday | $11,935,887 | $66,184,051 |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | Saturday | $11,004,081 | $57,721,819 |
| 2022 | The Batman | Friday | $10,716,576 | $369,345,583 |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Saturday | $10,388,447 | $70,511,035 |
| 2007 | 300 | Sunday | $10,247,556 | $210,614,939 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Sunday | $10,133,267 | $138,447,667 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Friday | $14,800,000 | $75,941,727 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Friday | $11,935,887 | $66,184,051 |
| 2022 | Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | Friday | $8,675,953 | $33,919,605 |
| 2011 | Limitless | Friday | $6,631,632 | $79,249,455 |
| 2011 | Paul | Friday | $4,469,190 | $37,412,945 |
| 2011 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Friday | $4,087,192 | $58,009,200 |
| 2005 | Ice Princess | Friday | $2,200,000 | $24,381,334 |
| 2022 | X | Friday | $1,776,300 | $11,769,469 |
| 2022 | The Outfit | Friday | $530,790 | $3,344,040 |
| 2022 | The Kashmir Files | Friday | $413,000 | $1,485,000 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 18.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | $174,750,616 | $504,014,165 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | $37,164,158 | $341,268,248 |
| 2022 | The Batman | $36,723,197 | $369,345,583 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | $36,302,612 | $138,447,667 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | $35,065,237 | $75,941,727 |
| 2007 | 300 | $32,877,328 | $210,614,939 |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | $30,111,158 | $57,721,819 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | $29,027,348 | $66,184,051 |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | $28,138,465 | $125,548,685 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | $27,832,142 | $168,052,812 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Edward Everett Horton (1886, died on September 29, 1970 at the age of 84), Robert Donat (1905, died on June 9, 1958 at the age of 53), René Clément (1913, died on March 17, 1996 at the age of 82), Peter Graves (1926, died on March 14, 2010 at the age of 83), John Mollo (1931, died on October 25, 2017 at the age of 86), John Updike (1932, died on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76), Shashi Kapoor (1938, died on December 4, 2017 at the age of 79), Mark Medoff (1940, died on April 23, 2019 at the age of 79), Ritch Brinkley (1944, died on November 5, 2015 at the age of 71), Frank McRae (1944, turned 80 this year), Susan Tyrrell (1945, died on June 16, 2021 at the age of 76), Olek Krupa (1947, turned 77 this year), Toni Bertorelli (1948, died on May 26, 2017 at the age of 69), Brad Dourif (1950, turned 74 this year), Luc Besson (1959, turned 65 this year), Irene Cara (1959, died on November 25, 2022 at the age of 63), Steve Kloves (1960, turned 64 this year), Geoffrey Owens (1961, turned 63 this year), Thomas Ian Griffith (1962, turned 62 this year), Vanessa Williams (1963, turned 61 this year), Sterling Wolfe (1964, died on February 15, 2019 at the age of 54), David Cubitt (1965, turned 59 this year), Tamer Hassan (1968, turned 56 this year), Queen Latifah (1970, turned 54 this year), Raquel Gardner (1970, turned 54 this year), Dane Cook (1972, turned 52 this year), Luci Christian (1973, turned 51 this year), Adam Levine (1979, turned 45 this year), Sophia Myles (1980, turned 44 this year), Chris Geere (1981, turned 43 this year), Vanessa Lee Evigan (1981, turned 43 this year), Adam Pally (1982, turned 42 this year), Chike Okonkwo (1982, turned 42 this year), Cindy Busby (1983, turned 41 this year), Duane Henry (1985, turned 39 this year), Aislinn Derbez (1986, turned 38 this year), Lily Collins (1989, turned 35 this year), Alan Aisenberg (1993, turned 31 this year), Julia Goldani Telles (1995, turned 29 this year), Madeline Carroll (1996, turned 28 this year), Eva Noblezada (1996, turned 28 this year), Grace Hogg-Robinson (1996, turned 28 this year), Ciara Bravo (1997, turned 27 this year), Abigail Cowen (1998, turned 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: William Beaudine (1970, at the age of 78), Leigh Brackett (1978, at the age of 62), Peggy Wood (1978, at the age of 86), Robin Harris (1990, at the age of 36), John Phillips (2001, at the age of 65), Denis Forest (2002, at the age of 41), Natasha Richardson (2009, at the age of 45), Chuck Berry (2017, at the age of 90), Jim Ward (2024, at the age of 64)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.