On This Day - April 18
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Furious 7 | Saturday | $12,922,640 | $353,007,020 |
| 2015 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 | Saturday | $10,087,037 | $71,091,594 |
| 2003 | Anger Management | Friday | $10,077,747 | $135,560,942 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Friday | $9,503,748 | $259,746,958 |
| 2014 | Rio 2 | Friday | $9,283,530 | $131,538,435 |
| 2009 | 17 Again | Saturday | $9,135,058 | $64,167,069 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Tuesday | $8,150,190 | $225,764,765 |
| 2014 | Heaven is for Real | Friday | $7,850,885 | $91,386,097 |
| 2008 | The Forbidden Kingdom | Friday | $7,743,521 | $52,075,270 |
| 2003 | Holes | Friday | $7,409,338 | $67,383,924 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Forbidden Kingdom | Friday | $7,743,521 | $52,075,270 |
| 2003 | Holes | Friday | $7,409,338 | $67,383,924 |
| 2008 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Friday | $6,043,680 | $63,172,463 |
| 2003 | Malibu’s Most Wanted | Friday | $5,486,751 | $34,308,901 |
| 2014 | Transcendence | Friday | $4,813,369 | $23,022,309 |
| 2014 | A Haunted House 2 | Friday | $4,045,237 | $17,329,487 |
| 2008 | 88 Minutes | Friday | $2,370,423 | $16,930,884 |
| 2014 | Bears | Friday | $2,311,688 | $17,780,194 |
| 2008 | Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed | Friday | $1,208,748 | $7,720,487 |
| 2014 | 2 States | Friday | $355,061 | $2,238,175 |
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 18.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Furious 7 | $29,156,595 | $353,007,020 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | $25,587,056 | $259,746,958 |
| 2004 | Kill Bill: Volume 2 | $25,104,949 | $66,207,920 |
| 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 |
| 2008 | The Forbidden Kingdom | $21,401,121 | $52,075,270 |
| 1999 | Life | $20,414,775 | $64,062,587 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: Michael, Untitled Warner Bros. Event Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Noble Johnson (1881, turned 143 this year), Virginia O’Brien (1919, died on January 16, 2001 at the age of 81), Barbara Hale (1922, died on January 26, 2017 at the age of 94), Clive Revill (1930, turned 94 this year), James Drury (1934, died on April 6, 2020 at the age of 85), James Drury (1934, died on April 6, 2020 at the age of 85), Hayley Mills (1946, turned 78 this year), James Woods (1947, turned 77 this year), Jerzy Stuhr (1947, turned 77 this year), Cindy Pickett (1947, turned 77 this year), Dorothy Lyman (1947, turned 77 this year), Kenny Ortega (1950, turned 74 this year), Rick Moranis (1953, turned 71 this year), Cynthia Ettinger (1954, turned 70 this year), Eric Roberts (1956, turned 68 this year), Jane Leeves (1961, turned 63 this year), Jeff Dunham (1962, turned 62 this year), Conan O’Brien (1963, turned 61 this year), Eric McCormack (1963, turned 61 this year), Rithy Panh (1964, turned 60 this year), Frederick Weller (1966, turned 58 this year), Maria Bello (1967, turned 57 this year), David Hewlett (1968, turned 56 this year), Mary Birdsong (1968, turned 56 this year), David Tennant (1971, turned 53 this year), Tamara Braun (1971, turned 53 this year), Eli Roth (1972, turned 52 this year), Juhan Ulfsak (1973, turned 51 this year), Edgar Wright (1974, turned 50 this year), Melissa Joan Hart (1976, turned 48 this year), Sean Maguire (1976, turned 48 this year), Kevin Rankin (1976, turned 48 this year), Derek Phillips (1976, turned 48 this year), Bryce Johnson (1977, turned 47 this year), Baran bo Odar (1978, turned 46 this year), Ethan Cohn (1979, turned 45 this year), Reeve Carney (1983, turned 41 this year), America Ferrera (1984, turned 40 this year), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987, turned 37 this year), Vanessa Kirby (1988, turned 36 this year), Nicolette Robinson (1988, turned 36 this year), Alia Shawkat (1989, turned 35 this year), Britt Robertson (1990, turned 34 this year), Joey Gaydos Jr. (1991, turned 33 this year), Chloe Bennet (1992, turned 32 this year), Moises Arias (1994, turned 30 this year), Virginia Gardner (1995, turned 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: Irving Cummings (1959, at the age of 70), Ben Hecht (1964, at the age of 71), Marcel Pagnol (1974, at the age of 79), Frances Rafferty (2004, at the age of 81), Dick Clark (2012, at the age of 82), J.C. Spink (2017, at the age of 45), Kirk Simon (2018, at the age of 63), Lorraine Warren (2019, at the age of 92), Gavin Peretti (2023, at the age of 39), Fyodor Petrukhin (2024, at the age of 39), Mandisa Hundley (2024, at the age of 39)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.