On This Day - March 19

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Record Day

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

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2017 Beauty and the Beast Sunday $48,266,365 $504,014,165
2016 Zootopia Saturday $16,233,914 $341,268,248
2022 The Batman Saturday $16,004,510 $369,345,583
2005 The Ring Two Saturday $13,102,145 $75,941,727
2004 Dawn of the Dead Friday $10,900,000 $58,990,765
2016 The Divergent Series: Allegiant Saturday $10,700,938 $66,184,051
2010 Alice in Wonderland Friday $9,815,632 $334,191,110
2005 Robots Saturday $9,404,528 $128,200,012
2017 Kong: Skull Island Sunday $8,282,134 $168,052,812
2010 The Bounty Hunter Friday $7,641,747 $67,061,228

Record Opening Day

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

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2004 Dawn of the Dead Friday $10,900,000 $58,990,765
2010 The Bounty Hunter Friday $7,641,747 $67,061,228
2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Friday $7,375,022 $64,003,625
1999 Forces of Nature Friday $4,850,000 $52,957,800
2004 Taking Lives Friday $4,200,000 $32,682,342
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Friday $2,700,000 $34,366,518
2010 Repo Men Friday $2,168,125 $13,942,007
1999 True Crime Friday $1,605,000 $16,676,845
1999 The King and I Friday $1,110,000 $12,064,440
2021 Ironbark Friday $671,968 $6,613,432

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 19.

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
2005 The Ring Two $35,065,237 $75,941,727
2010 Alice in Wonderland $34,189,969 $334,191,110
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
2004 Dawn of the Dead $26,722,575 $58,990,765

Released Today

Movies that were released today: Room 0, Bardejov

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Roy Roberts (1906, died on May 28, 1975 at the age of 69), Kent Smith (1907, died on April 23, 1985 at the age of 78), Eric Christmas (1916, died on July 22, 2000 at the age of 84), Giuseppe Rotunno (1923, died on February 7, 2021 at the age of 97), Bill Henderson (1926, died on April 3, 2016 at the age of 90), Patrick McGoohan (1928, died on January 13, 2009 at the age of 80), Philip Roth (1933, died on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85), Phyllis Newman (1933, died on September 15, 2019 at the age of 86), Richard Williams (1933, died on August 16, 2019 at the age of 86), Renee Taylor (1933, turns 91 today), Ursula Andress (1936, turns 88 today), Maurice Roeves (1937, died on July 15, 2020 at the age of 83), Michael Koskoff (1942, died on April 24, 2019 at the age of 77), Glenn Close (1947, turns 77 today), Dermot Crowley (1947, turns 77 today), Harvey Weinstein (1952, turns 72 today), Bruce Willis (1955, turns 69 today), Fred Stoller (1958, turns 66 today), Neil LaBute (1963, turns 61 today), Jake Weber (1964, turns 60 today), Marjorie Monaghan (1964, turns 60 today), Lisa Stahl (1965, turns 59 today), Connor Trinneer (1969, turns 55 today), Vida Guerra (1974, turns 50 today), Vivian Hsu (1975, turns 49 today), Matthew Leitch (1975, turns 49 today), Rachel Blanchard (1976, turns 48 today), Nicholas Stoller (1976, turns 48 today), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1977, turns 47 today), Jorma Taccone (1977, turns 47 today), Virginia Williams (1978, turns 46 today), Abby Brammell (1979, turns 45 today), Theo Von (1980, turns 44 today), Dan Levy (1981, turns 43 today), Nick Hendrix (1985, turns 39 today), Michael Drayer (1986, turns 38 today), Josie Loren (1987, turns 37 today), Philip Daniel Bolden (1995, turns 29 today), Caylee Cowan (1998, turns 26 today)

Died on this day in history: Edward Platt (1974, at the age of 58), Alan Badel (1982, at the age of 58), Paul Scofield (2008, at the age of 86), Alan Hopgood (2022, at the age of 87)

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