On This Day - April 23
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Saturday | $26,716,782 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Sunday | $19,651,085 | $574,934,330 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Sunday | $10,482,090 | $225,764,765 |
| 2011 | Rio | Saturday | $9,881,250 | $143,619,809 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Saturday | $9,749,530 | $72,708,161 |
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | Friday | $9,536,257 | $49,888,502 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | Saturday | $9,347,700 | $97,459,240 |
| 2011 | Madea’s Big Happy Family | Saturday | $9,100,379 | $53,345,287 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | Friday | $9,090,000 | $42,326,031 |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter’s War | Saturday | $7,583,235 | $48,003,015 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | Friday | $9,536,257 | $49,888,502 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | Friday | $9,090,000 | $42,326,031 |
| 2004 | 13 Going On 30 | Friday | $7,400,000 | $57,139,723 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Friday | $7,300,000 | $77,906,816 |
| 2010 | The Back-up Plan | Friday | $4,257,676 | $37,490,007 |
| 2010 | The Losers | Friday | $3,236,476 | $23,591,432 |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Friday | $1,175,000 | $8,408,835 |
| 1999 | Lost and Found | Friday | $1,045,000 | $6,552,255 |
| 2023 | Spirited Away: Live on Stage | Sunday | $702,744 | $1,455,081 |
| 2021 | Together Together | Friday | $182,712 | $1,436,324 |
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 23.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $61,538,821 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $59,930,940 | $574,934,330 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $38,408,415 | $225,764,765 |
| 2011 | Rio | $26,323,321 | $143,619,809 |
| 2011 | Madea’s Big Happy Family | $25,068,677 | $53,345,287 |
| 2023 | Evil Dead Rise | $24,504,315 | $67,356,372 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | $23,950,245 | $97,459,240 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $23,302,503 | $42,326,031 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | $22,822,455 | $72,708,161 |
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | $22,789,600 | $49,888,502 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: William Shakespeare (1564, died on April 23, 1616 at the age of 52), Shirley Temple (1928, died on February 10, 2014 at the age of 85), Alan Oppenheimer (1930, turned 94 this year), Roy Halston (1932, died on March 26, 1990 at the age of 57), Angela McEwan (1934, died on December 20, 2015 at the age of 81), Roy Orbison (1936, died on December 6, 1988 at the age of 52), Patrick Williams (1939, died on July 25, 2018 at the age of 79), Lee Majors (1939, turned 85 this year), Jorge Fons (1939, died on September 22, 2022 at the age of 83), Michael Lynne (1941, died on March 24, 2019 at the age of 77), Sandra Dee (1942, died on February 20, 2005 at the age of 62), Sheila Gish (1942, turned 82 this year), Herve Villechaize (1943, died on September 4, 1993 at the age of 50), Jean-Francois Stevenin (1944, turned 80 this year), Blair Brown (1946, turned 78 this year), Henry Goodman (1950, turned 74 this year), James Russo (1953, turned 71 this year), Michael Moore (1954, turned 70 this year), Lucinda Jenney (1954, turned 70 this year), Judy Davis (1955, turned 69 this year), Kevin Meaney (1956, died on October 21, 2016 at the age of 60), Tonino Zangardi (1957, died on February 19, 2018 at the age of 60), Jan Hooks (1957, died on October 9, 2014 at the age of 57), Dan Frischman (1959, turned 65 this year), Valerie Bertinelli (1960, turned 64 this year), Craig Sheffer (1960, turned 64 this year), George Lopez (1961, turned 63 this year), John Hannah (1962, turned 62 this year), Melina Kanakaredes (1967, turned 57 this year), Manoj Bajpayee (1969, turned 55 this year), Scott Bairstow (1970, turned 54 this year), D.B. Weiss (1971, turned 53 this year), Cem Yilmaz (1973, turned 51 this year), John Oliver (1974, turned 50 this year), Aaron Dessner (1976, turned 48 this year), Gabriel Damon (1976, turned 48 this year), John Cena (1977, turned 47 this year), Kal Penn (1977, turned 47 this year), John Oliver (1977, turned 47 this year), Eric Edelstein (1977, turned 47 this year), Joanna Krupa (1979, turned 45 this year), Jaime King (1979, turned 45 this year), Sally Bretton (1980, turned 44 this year), Gemma Whelan (1981, turned 43 this year), Aaron Hill (1983, turned 41 this year), Jesse Lee Soffer (1984, turned 40 this year), Rachel Skarsten (1985, turned 39 this year), Molly Burnett (1988, turned 36 this year), Carla Quevedo (1988, turned 36 this year), Anastasia Baranova (1989, turned 35 this year), Dev Patel (1990, turned 34 this year), Matthew Underwood (1990, turned 34 this year), Gigi Hadid (1995, turned 29 this year), Charles S. Rowe (1996, turned 28 this year), Maddison Brown (1997, turned 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: William Shakespeare (1616, at the age of 52), Jules Berry (1951, at the age of 68), Kent Smith (1985, at the age of 78), Otto Preminger (1986, at the age of 80), Paulette Goddard (1990, at the age of 80), Satyajit Ray (1992, at the age of 70), P.L. Travers (1996, at the age of 96), John Mills (2005, at the age of 97), Michael Glawogger (2014, at the age of 54), Terry Rawlings (2019, at the age of 86), Mark Medoff (2019, at the age of 79), David Winters (2019, at the age of 80), Bruce Allpress (2020, at the age of 89), Amit Mistry (2021, at the age of 89), Philippe Laudenbach (2024, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.