On This Day - April 16
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Saturday | $40,811,977 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Sunday | $30,396,285 | $574,934,330 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Sunday | $21,548,065 | $225,764,765 |
| 2011 | Rio | Saturday | $17,467,665 | $143,619,809 |
| 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | Saturday | $13,810,828 | $95,850,844 |
| 2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Saturday | $11,676,811 | $190,872,904 |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Friday | $10,600,000 | $66,207,920 |
| 2005 | The Amityville Horror | Saturday | $8,793,084 | $65,233,369 |
| 2016 | Barbershop: The Next Cut | Saturday | $8,193,989 | $54,030,051 |
| 2006 | Scary Movie 4 | Sunday | $7,762,176 | $90,710,620 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 16.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Friday | $10,600,000 | $66,207,920 |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Friday | $7,656,935 | $48,071,303 |
| 1999 | Life | Friday | $6,410,000 | $64,062,587 |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Friday | $5,547,092 | $42,739,347 |
| 2004 | The Punisher | Friday | $5,200,000 | $33,664,370 |
| 2014 | Heaven is for Real | Wednesday | $3,703,141 | $91,386,097 |
| 2003 | Bulletproof Monk | Wednesday | $1,443,000 | $23,010,607 |
| 2004 | Connie and Carla | Friday | $1,100,000 | $8,047,525 |
| 2003 | Chasing Papi | Wednesday | $405,000 | $6,126,237 |
| 2003 | A Mighty Wind | Wednesday | $308,000 | $17,583,468 |
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 16.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $103,261,464 | $364,001,123 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $98,786,705 | $225,764,765 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $92,347,190 | $574,934,330 |
| 2022 | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore | $42,151,256 | $95,850,844 |
| 2006 | Scary Movie 4 | $40,222,875 | $90,710,620 |
| 2011 | Rio | $39,225,962 | $143,619,809 |
| 2022 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | $29,304,395 | $190,872,904 |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $25,104,949 | $66,207,920 |
| 2005 | The Amityville Horror | $23,507,007 | $65,233,369 |
| 1999 | Life | $20,414,775 | $64,062,587 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Charlie Chaplin (1889, died on December 25, 1977 at the age of 88), Catherine Scorsese (1912, died on January 6, 1997 at the age of 84), Les Tremayne (1913, died on December 19, 2003 at the age of 90), Barry Nelson (1917, died on April 7, 2007 at the age of 89), Peter Ustinov (1921, died on March 28, 2004 at the age of 82), Henry Mancini (1924, died on June 14, 1994 at the age of 70), Edie Adams (1927, died on October 15, 2008 at the age of 81), Peter Mark Richman (1927, died on January 14, 2021 at the age of 93), Paul Sylbert (1928, died on November 19, 2016 at the age of 88), George “The Animal” Steele (1937, died on February 16, 2017 at the age of 79), Paul Cox (1940, died on June 18, 2016 at the age of 76), Ruth Madoc (1943, died on December 9, 2022 at the age of 79), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947, turned 77 this year), David Graf (1950, died on April 7, 2001 at the age of 50), Michel Blanc (1952, turned 72 this year), Jay O. Sanders (1953, turned 71 this year), Marshall R. Teague (1953, turned 71 this year), Ellen Barkin (1954, turned 70 this year), Yorick van Wageningen (1964, turned 60 this year), Martin Lawrence (1965, turned 59 this year), Jon Cryer (1965, turned 59 this year), Peter Billingsley (1971, turned 53 this year), Max Beesley (1971, turned 53 this year), Árni Ásgeirsson (1972, died on April 26, 2021 at the age of 49), Akon (1973, turned 51 this year), Sean Maher (1975, turned 49 this year), Karl Yune (1975, turned 49 this year), Kelli OHara (1976, turned 48 this year), Lucas Haas (1976, turned 48 this year), Lukas Haas (1976, turned 48 this year), David Lyons (1976, turned 48 this year), Qi Shu (1976, turned 48 this year), Hayes MacArthur (1977, turned 47 this year), Nikki Griffin (1978, turned 46 this year), Kristin Proctor (1978, turned 46 this year), Tom Segura (1979, turned 45 this year), Russel Harvard (1981, turned 43 this year), Gina Carano (1982, turned 42 this year), Claire Foy (1984, turned 40 this year), Noah Fleiss (1984, turned 40 this year), Rhiana Griffith (1985, turned 39 this year), Hayley Squires (1988, turned 36 this year), Lorraine Nicholson (1990, turned 34 this year), Liliana Mumy (1994, turned 30 this year), Midori Francis (1994, turned 30 this year), Poppy Lee Friar (1995, turned 29 this year), Anya Taylor-Joy (1996, turned 28 this year), Sadie Sink (2002, turned 22 this year)
Died on this day in history: Fay Bainter (1968, at the age of 74), Scott Brady (1985, at the age of 60), David Lean (1991, at the age of 83), Lucille Bremer (1996, at the age of 79), Roland Topor (1997, at the age of 59), Michael Ritchie (2001, at the age of 62), Robert Urich (2002, at the age of 55), Sol Saks (2011, at the age of 100), Kit West (2016, at the age of 80), Harry Anderson (2018, at the age of 65), Pamela Gidley (2018, at the age of 52), Helen McCrory (2021, at the age of 52), Barbara-O (2024, at the age of 52)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.