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
2025 Sinners Friday $19,202,349 $279,989,632
2025 A Minecraft Movie Friday $16,000,498 $424,087,780
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

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
2025 Sinners Friday $19,202,349 $279,989,632
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
2025 COLORFUL STAGE! The Movie: A Miku Who Can’t Sing (劇場版プロジェクトセカイ 壊れたセカイと歌えないミク) Friday $1,424,687 $3,659,632

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
2025 Sinners $48,007,468 $279,989,632
2025 A Minecraft Movie $40,497,865 $424,087,780
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

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Noble Johnson (1881, turns 145 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, turns 96 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, turns 80 this year), James Woods (1947, turns 79 this year), Jerzy Stuhr (1947, died on July 9, 2024 at the age of 77), Cindy Pickett (1947, turns 79 this year), Dorothy Lyman (1947, turns 79 this year), Kenny Ortega (1950, turns 76 this year), Rick Moranis (1953, turns 73 this year), Cynthia Ettinger (1954, turns 72 this year), Eric Roberts (1956, turns 70 this year), Jane Leeves (1961, turns 65 this year), Jeff Dunham (1962, turns 64 this year), Conan O’Brien (1963, turns 63 this year), Eric McCormack (1963, turns 63 this year), Rithy Panh (1964, turns 62 this year), Frederick Weller (1966, turns 60 this year), Andrew Karpen (1966, died on April 28, 2025 at the age of 59), Maria Bello (1967, turns 59 this year), David Hewlett (1968, turns 58 this year), Mary Birdsong (1968, turns 58 this year), David Tennant (1971, turns 55 this year), Tamara Braun (1971, turns 55 this year), Eli Roth (1972, turns 54 this year), Juhan Ulfsak (1973, turns 53 this year), Edgar Wright (1974, turns 52 this year), Melissa Joan Hart (1976, turns 50 this year), Sean Maguire (1976, turns 50 this year), Kevin Rankin (1976, turns 50 this year), Derek Phillips (1976, turns 50 this year), Bryce Johnson (1977, turns 49 this year), Baran bo Odar (1978, turns 48 this year), Ethan Cohn (1979, turns 47 this year), Reeve Carney (1983, turns 43 this year), America Ferrera (1984, turns 42 this year), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987, turns 39 this year), Vanessa Kirby (1988, turns 38 this year), Nicolette Robinson (1988, turns 38 this year), Alia Shawkat (1989, turns 37 this year), Britt Robertson (1990, turns 36 this year), Joey Gaydos Jr. (1991, turns 35 this year), Chloe Bennet (1992, turns 34 this year), Moises Arias (1994, turns 32 this year), Virginia Gardner (1995, turns 31 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), Julieta Szonyi (2025, at the age of 75)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.