On This Day - April 26
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Friday | $157,461,641 | $858,373,000 |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | Saturday | $9,664,324 | $83,911,193 |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | Friday | $7,491,446 | $49,875,291 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Saturday | $7,318,408 | $259,746,958 |
| 2003 | Anger Management | Saturday | $7,077,718 | $135,560,942 |
| 2008 | Baby Mama | Saturday | $7,005,965 | $60,494,212 |
| 2003 | Identity | Saturday | $6,802,283 | $52,131,264 |
| 2014 | Rio 2 | Saturday | $6,264,522 | $131,538,435 |
| 2009 | Obsessed | Sunday | $6,243,947 | $68,261,644 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Tuesday | $5,860,170 | $364,001,123 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 26.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Friday | $157,461,641 | $858,373,000 |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | Friday | $7,491,446 | $49,875,291 |
| 2002 | Jason X | Friday | $2,601,000 | $13,121,555 |
| 2013 | The Big Wedding | Friday | $2,576,573 | $21,819,348 |
| 2002 | Life, or Something Like It | Friday | $2,288,000 | $14,448,589 |
| 2013 | Mud | Friday | $635,481 | $21,590,086 |
| 2013 | Kon-Tiki | Friday | $5,623 | $1,517,410 |
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 26.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $357,115,007 | $858,373,000 |
| 2009 | Obsessed | $28,612,730 | $68,261,644 |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | $24,763,752 | $83,911,193 |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | $20,244,505 | $49,875,291 |
| 2002 | The Scorpion King | $18,038,270 | $90,580,000 |
| 2015 | Furious 7 | $17,821,440 | $353,007,020 |
| 2013 | Oblivion | $17,803,425 | $89,107,235 |
| 2008 | Baby Mama | $17,407,110 | $60,494,212 |
| 2003 | Identity | $16,225,263 | $52,131,264 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | $16,219,025 | $259,746,958 |
Released Today
Movies that were released today: Challengers, Unsung Hero, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Cinderella’s Revenge, Boy Kills World, Terrestrial Verses, Uncropped, Exhibition on Screen: John Singer Sargent, Breathe, Nowhere Special, Dancing Village: The Curse Begins, Humane, Bloodline Killer, Cash Out, Break, The King Tide, We 12, The Big Bend
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Douglas Sirk (1897, died on January 14, 1987 at the age of 89), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910, died on April 2, 1997 at the age of 86), Bruce Jay Friedman (1930, died on May 3, 2020 at the age of 90), Paul Almond (1931, died on April 9, 2015 at the age of 83), Carol Burnett (1933, turns 91 today), Claudine Auger (1941, died on December 18, 2019 at the age of 78), Ron McLarty (1947, died on February 8, 2020 at the age of 72), Warren Clarke (1947, died on November 12, 2014 at the age of 67), Alexey Rodionov (1947, turns 77 today), Dominic Sena (1949, turns 75 today), Zinaid Memisevic (1950, died on January 7, 2023 at the age of 72), Spice Williams-Crosby (1952, turns 72 today), Nancy Lenehan (1953, turns 71 today), Giancarlo Esposito (1958, turns 66 today), Joan Chen (1961, turns 63 today), Debra Wilson (1962, turns 62 today), Jet Li (1963, turns 61 today), Kevin James (1965, turns 59 today), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967, turns 57 today), Glenn Jacobs (1967, turns 57 today), Kate Hardie (1969, turns 55 today), Tionne Watkins (1970, turns 54 today), Jay DeMarcus (1971, turns 53 today), Shondrella Avery (1971, turns 53 today), Ivana Milicevic (1974, turns 50 today), Onahoua Rodriguez (1975, turns 49 today), Tom Welling (1977, turns 47 today), Joan Chen (1977, turns 47 today), McKenzie Westmore (1977, turns 47 today), Pablo Schreiber (1978, turns 46 today), Stana Katic (1978, turns 46 today), Nyambi Nyambi (1979, turns 45 today), Channing Tatum (1980, turns 44 today), Anna Mucha (1980, turns 44 today), Jordana Brewster (1980, turns 44 today), Marnette Patterson (1980, turns 44 today), Jonathan Sothcott (1980, turns 44 today), Holly Davidson (1980, turns 44 today), Michael Dorman (1981, turns 43 today), Amit Shah (1981, turns 43 today), Emily Wickersham (1984, turns 40 today), Jemima Kirke (1985, turns 39 today), Falk Hentschel (1985, turns 39 today), Jessica Rose (1987, turns 37 today), Annie Starke (1988, turns 36 today), Emily Wickersham (1989, turns 35 today), Ayame Misaki (1989, turns 35 today), Riley Voelkel (1990, turns 34 today), Amber Midthunder (1997, turns 27 today)
Died on this day in history: Sidney James (1976, at the age of 62), Jim Davis (1981, at the age of 71), Herbert Voland (1981, at the age of 62), Count Basie (1984, at the age of 79), Bessie Love (1986, at the age of 87), Lucille Ball (1989, at the age of 77), Stirling Silliphant (1996, at the age of 78), Peter Stone (2003, at the age of 73), Maria Schell (2005, at the age of 79), Mason Adams (2005, at the age of 86), Jacqueline Brookes (2013, at the age of 82), Jayne Meadows (2015, at the age of 95), Jonathan Demme (2017, at the age of 73), Gianfranco Parolini (2018, at the age of 93), Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (2019, at the age of 76), Peter H. Hunt (2020, at the age of 81), Árni Ásgeirsson (2021, at the age of 49), Ann Davies (2022, at the age of 87)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.