On This Day - April 19

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2013 Oblivion Friday $13,297,245 $89,107,235
2002 The Scorpion King Friday $12,602,000 $90,580,000
2019 The Curse of La Llorona Friday $11,919,261 $54,733,739
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Saturday $10,336,793 $259,746,958
2003 Anger Management Saturday $9,566,257 $135,560,942
2016 The Jungle Book Tuesday $8,958,687 $364,001,123
2014 Heaven is for Real Saturday $8,274,041 $91,386,097
2014 Rio 2 Saturday $8,182,762 $131,538,435
2008 The Forbidden Kingdom Saturday $7,996,033 $52,075,270
2015 Furious 7 Sunday $7,909,555 $353,007,020

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2013 Oblivion Friday $13,297,245 $89,107,235
2002 The Scorpion King Friday $12,602,000 $90,580,000
2019 The Curse of La Llorona Friday $11,919,261 $54,733,739
2002 Murder by Numbers Friday $2,976,000 $31,874,869
2013 Filly Brown Friday $676,688 $2,850,357
2013 The Lords of Salem Friday $285,242 $1,165,881
2019 Little Woods Friday $18,052 $150,010
2019 Under The Silver Lake Friday $15,141 $46,083
2019 Fast Color Friday $13,792 $76,916
2013 Pawn Friday $1,438 $2,793

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was April 19.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2013 Oblivion $37,054,485 $89,107,235
2002 The Scorpion King $36,075,875 $90,580,000
2015 Furious 7 $29,156,595 $353,007,020
2019 The Curse of La Llorona $26,347,631 $54,733,739
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier $25,587,056 $259,746,958
2003 Anger Management $25,005,588 $135,560,942
2015 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 $23,762,435 $71,091,594
2009 17 Again $23,722,310 $64,167,069
2014 Heaven is for Real $22,522,221 $91,386,097
2014 Rio 2 $22,159,742 $131,538,435

Future Releases

Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Egoist, Spy x Family Code: White, We Grown Now, Blood for Dust, Hard Miles, The Coffee Table, Wildfire: The Legend of the Cherokee Ghost Horse, Villains Inc., Mr. & Mrs. Mahi, Little Empty Boxes, Stress Positions, Refuge, Abigail, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: May Robson (1858, died on October 20, 1942 at the age of 84), George O'Brien (1899, died on September 4, 1985 at the age of 86), Harold Bergman (1919, died on February 1, 2019 at the age of 99), Hugh O’Brian (1925, died on September 5, 2016 at the age of 91), Dick Sargent (1930, died on July 8, 1994 at the age of 64), Fernando Botero (1932, died on September 15, 2023 at the age of 91), Jayne Mansfield (1933, died on June 29, 1967 at the age of 34), Cynthia O'Neal (1934, turns 90 this year), Dudley Moore (1935, died on March 27, 2002 at the age of 66), Elinor Donahue (1937, turns 87 this year), Tim Curry (1946, turns 78 this year), Tony Plana (1952, turns 72 this year), Dennis Dun (1952, turns 72 this year), Ruby Wax (1953, turns 71 this year), Steven Antin (1958, turns 66 this year), Patricia Charbonneau (1959, turns 65 this year), Nicoletta Braschi (1960, turns 64 this year), Albert Martinez (1961, turns 63 this year), Catherine Lloyd Burns (1961, turns 63 this year), Eduardo Galvão (1963, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 57), Tom Wood (1963, turns 61 this year), Tim Ransom (1963, turns 61 this year), Natalie Dessay (1965, turns 59 this year), David La Haye (1966, turns 58 this year), Arshad Warsi (1968, turns 56 this year), Ashley Judd (1968, turns 56 this year), Shannon Lee (1969, turns 55 this year), Gad Elmaleh (1971, turns 53 this year), Jennifer Taylor (1972, turns 52 this year), Michael Bacall (1973, turns 51 this year), Michael Dowse (1973, turns 51 this year), Hugh O'Conor (1975, turns 49 this year), James Franco (1978, turns 46 this year), Kate Hudson (1979, turns 45 this year), Alexis Thorpe (1980, turns 44 this year), Catalina Sandino Moreno (1981, turns 43 this year), Hayden Christensen (1981, turns 43 this year), Ignacio Serricchio (1982, turns 42 this year), Marta Milans (1982, turns 42 this year), Ali Wong (1982, turns 42 this year), Victoria Yeates (1983, turns 41 this year), Kelen Coleman (1984, turns 40 this year), Oksana Akinshina (1987, turns 37 this year), Courtland Mead (1987, turns 37 this year), Maria Sharapova (1987, turns 37 this year), Simu Liu (1989, turns 35 this year), Mia Serafino (1989, turns 35 this year)

Died on this day in history: Tony Beckley (1980, at the age of 52), Ruth Hussey (2005, at the age of 93), George P. Cosmatos (2005, at the age of 64), Jean-Pierre Cassel (2007, at the age of 74), Levon Helm (2012, at the age of 71), Allan Arbus (2013, at the age of 95), Ronit Elkabetz (2016, at the age of 51), Eloy Casados (2016, at the age of 66), Philippe Nahon (2020, at the age of 81)

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