On This Day - August 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) | Friday | $10,915,414 | $32,132,374 |
| 2007 | Superbad | Sunday | $10,267,489 | $121,463,226 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Sunday | $8,958,015 | $174,532,921 |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | Saturday | $8,514,055 | $72,541,501 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Saturday | $8,378,293 | $636,785,476 |
| 2017 | The Hitman’s Bodyguard | Saturday | $7,902,414 | $75,468,583 |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 | Sunday | $7,886,826 | $85,028,192 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | Friday | $7,055,565 | $109,449,237 |
| 2018 | The Meg | Sunday | $6,384,930 | $145,443,742 |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation | Saturday | $6,358,447 | $102,092,201 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) | Friday | $10,915,414 | $32,132,374 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | Friday | $7,055,565 | $109,449,237 |
| 2005 | Red Eye | Friday | $6,100,000 | $57,891,803 |
| 2016 | War Dogs | Friday | $5,550,589 | $43,034,523 |
| 2022 | Beast | Friday | $4,307,590 | $31,846,530 |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Friday | $4,134,322 | $26,410,477 |
| 2016 | Kubo and the Two Strings | Friday | $4,061,170 | $48,023,088 |
| 2011 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | Friday | $4,015,064 | $38,536,376 |
| 2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Friday | $3,673,635 | $21,295,021 |
| 2011 | Fright Night | Friday | $3,074,371 | $18,298,649 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Superbad | $33,052,411 | $121,463,226 |
| 2012 | The Expendables 2 | $28,591,370 | $85,028,192 |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | $26,510,140 | $174,532,921 |
| 2023 | Blue Beetle | $25,030,225 | $72,541,501 |
| 1995 | Mortal Kombat | $23,283,887 | $70,433,227 |
| 2005 | The 40 Year-old Virgin | $21,422,815 | $109,449,237 |
| 2017 | The Hitman’s Bodyguard | $21,384,504 | $75,468,583 |
| 2007 | Rush Hour 3 | $21,353,361 | $140,125,968 |
| 2018 | The Meg | $21,151,012 | $145,443,742 |
| 2022 | Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) | $21,124,049 | $32,132,374 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Claude Dauphin (1903, died on November 16, 1978 at the age of 75), Dick Simmons (1913, died on January 11, 2003 at the age of 89), Gene Roddenberry (1921, died on October 24, 1991 at the age of 70), David Lodge (1921, died on January 1, 2025 at the age of 103), Angus Scrimm (1926, died on January 9, 2016 at the age of 89), L.Q. Jones (1927, died on July 9, 2022 at the age of 94), Alan Metter (1933, died on June 7, 2020 at the age of 86), Debra Paget (1933, turns 92 this year), Robert Towers (1936, turns 89 this year), Diana Muldaur (1938, turns 87 this year), Ginger Baker (1939, died on October 6, 2019 at the age of 80), Jill St. John (1940, turns 85 this year), Fred Dalton Thompson (1942, died on November 1, 2015 at the age of 73), Christopher Malcolm (1946, died on February 15, 2014 at the age of 67), Bill Clinton (1946, turns 79 this year), Lung Ti (1946, turns 79 this year), Gerald McRaney (1947, turns 78 this year), Jim Carter (1948, turns 77 this year), Ian McElhinney (1948, turns 77 this year), Gustavo Santaolalla (1951, turns 74 this year), Jonathan Frakes (1952, turns 73 this year), George Steiner (1952, died on September 25, 2020 at the age of 68), Nanni Moretti (1953, turns 72 this year), Peter Gallagher (1955, turns 70 this year), Adam Arkin (1956, turns 69 this year), Daniel Quinn (1956, died on July 4, 2015 at the age of 58), Martin Donovan (1957, turns 68 this year), Bill Anagnos (1958, died on January 15, 2019 at the age of 60), Tony Longo (1961, died on June 21, 2015 at the age of 53), Ville Virtanen (1961, turns 64 this year), Mike Massimino (1962, turns 63 this year), John Stamos (1963, turns 62 this year), Matthew Glave (1963, turns 62 this year), Stu Riley (1963, turns 62 this year), Kyra Sedgwick (1965, turns 60 this year), Kevin Dillon (1965, turns 60 this year), Maria de Medeiros (1965, turns 60 this year), Lucy Briers (1967, turns 58 this year), Tabitha Soren (1967, turns 58 this year), Richard Harmon (1969, turns 56 this year), Paula Jai Parker (1969, turns 56 this year), Viveka Davis (1969, turns 56 this year), Fat Joe (1970, turns 55 this year), Ahmed Best (1973, turns 52 this year), Tracie Thoms (1975, turns 50 this year), Callum Blue (1977, turns 48 this year), Michelle Borth (1978, turns 47 this year), Thomas Q. Jones (1978, turns 47 this year), Adam Campbell (1980, turns 45 this year), Aimee-Lynn Chadwick (1980, turns 45 this year), Darius Campbell (1980, turns 45 this year), Melissa Fumero (1982, turns 43 this year), Erika Christensen (1982, turns 43 this year), Tammin Sursok (1983, turns 42 this year), Peter Mooney (1983, turns 42 this year), Mike Moh (1983, turns 42 this year), Simon Bird (1984, turns 41 this year), J. Evan Bonifant (1985, turns 40 this year), David A. Gregory (1985, turns 40 this year), Morgana O'Reilly (1985, turns 40 this year), Simon Stone (1985, turns 40 this year), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (1987, turns 38 this year), Travis Tedford (1988, turns 37 this year), Romeo Miller (1989, turns 36 this year), John Crowley (1997, turns 28 this year), Tristan Lake Leabu (1999, turns 26 this year), Brighton Sharbino (2002, turns 23 this year), Steele Stebbins (2003, turns 22 this year), Eva Hauge (2006, turns 19 this year)
Died on this day in history: Alastair Sim (1976, at the age of 75), Hermione Baddeley (1986, at the age of 79), Hayden Rorke (1987, at the age of 76), Utpal Dutt (1993, at the age of 64), Raoul Ruiz (2011, at the age of 70), Tony Scott (2012, at the age of 68), Lee Thompson Young (2013, at the age of 29), Stephenie McMillan (2013, at the age of 71), Louis J. Pearlman (2016, at the age of 62), Jack Riley (2016, at the age of 80), Brian Aldiss (2017, at the age of 92), Dick Gregory (2017, at the age of 84), Sujata Kumar (2018, at the age of 84), Khaira Arby (2018, at the age of 84), James R. Alexander (2019, at the age of 88), Sonny Chiba (2021, at the age of 82), Chuck Close (2021, at the age of 81), Taheim Bryan (2021, at the age of 81), Ron Cephas Jones (2023, at the age of 66), Igor Yasulovich (2023, at the age of 81)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.