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 |
| 2024 | Abigail | Friday | $4,033,895 | $12,889,175 |
| 2024 | The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | Friday | $3,738,379 | $11,077,938 |
| 2002 | Murder by Numbers | Friday | $2,976,000 | $31,874,869 |
| 2024 | Spy x Family Code: White | Friday | $2,208,568 | $5,758,635 |
| 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 |
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 |
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, turned 90 this year), Dudley Moore (1935, died on March 27, 2002 at the age of 66), Elinor Donahue (1937, turned 87 this year), Tim Curry (1946, turned 78 this year), Tony Plana (1952, turned 72 this year), Dennis Dun (1952, turned 72 this year), Ruby Wax (1953, turned 71 this year), Steven Antin (1958, turned 66 this year), Patricia Charbonneau (1959, turned 65 this year), Nicoletta Braschi (1960, turned 64 this year), Albert Martinez (1961, turned 63 this year), Catherine Lloyd Burns (1961, turned 63 this year), Eduardo Galvão (1963, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 57), Tom Wood (1963, turned 61 this year), Tim Ransom (1963, turned 61 this year), Natalie Dessay (1965, turned 59 this year), David La Haye (1966, turned 58 this year), Arshad Warsi (1968, turned 56 this year), Ashley Judd (1968, turned 56 this year), Shannon Lee (1969, turned 55 this year), Gad Elmaleh (1971, turned 53 this year), Jennifer Taylor (1972, turned 52 this year), Michael Bacall (1973, turned 51 this year), Michael Dowse (1973, turned 51 this year), Hugh O'Conor (1975, turned 49 this year), James Franco (1978, turned 46 this year), Kate Hudson (1979, turned 45 this year), Alexis Thorpe (1980, turned 44 this year), Catalina Sandino Moreno (1981, turned 43 this year), Hayden Christensen (1981, turned 43 this year), Ignacio Serricchio (1982, turned 42 this year), Marta Milans (1982, turned 42 this year), Ali Wong (1982, turned 42 this year), Victoria Yeates (1983, turned 41 this year), Kelen Coleman (1984, turned 40 this year), Oksana Akinshina (1987, turned 37 this year), Courtland Mead (1987, turned 37 this year), Maria Sharapova (1987, turned 37 this year), Simu Liu (1989, turned 35 this year), Mia Serafino (1989, turned 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.