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
2025 Sinners Saturday $16,501,469 $279,989,632
2025 A Minecraft Movie Saturday $15,798,425 $424,087,780
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

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 $25,867,515
2024 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Friday $3,738,379 $20,535,053
2002 Murder by Numbers Friday $2,976,000 $31,874,869
2024 Spy x Family Code: White Friday $2,208,568 $8,110,042
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
2025 Sinners $48,007,468 $279,989,632
2025 A Minecraft Movie $40,497,865 $424,087,780
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

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), Michel Klein (1921, died on October 19, 2024 at the age of 103), 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, turns 92 this year), Dudley Moore (1935, died on March 27, 2002 at the age of 66), Elinor Donahue (1937, turns 89 this year), Tim Curry (1946, turns 80 this year), Tony Plana (1952, turns 74 this year), Dennis Dun (1952, turns 74 this year), Ruby Wax (1953, turns 73 this year), Steven Antin (1958, turns 68 this year), Patricia Charbonneau (1959, turns 67 this year), Nicoletta Braschi (1960, turns 66 this year), Albert Martinez (1961, turns 65 this year), Catherine Lloyd Burns (1961, turns 65 this year), Eduardo Galvão (1963, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 57), Tom Wood (1963, turns 63 this year), Tim Ransom (1963, turns 63 this year), Natalie Dessay (1965, turns 61 this year), David La Haye (1966, turns 60 this year), Arshad Warsi (1968, turns 58 this year), Ashley Judd (1968, turns 58 this year), Jan Becker (1968, turns 58 this year), Shannon Lee (1969, turns 57 this year), Gad Elmaleh (1971, turns 55 this year), Jennifer Taylor (1972, turns 54 this year), Michael Bacall (1973, turns 53 this year), Michael Dowse (1973, turns 53 this year), Hugh O'Conor (1975, turns 51 this year), James Franco (1978, turns 48 this year), Kate Hudson (1979, turns 47 this year), Alexis Thorpe (1980, turns 46 this year), Catalina Sandino Moreno (1981, turns 45 this year), Hayden Christensen (1981, turns 45 this year), Ignacio Serricchio (1982, turns 44 this year), Marta Milans (1982, turns 44 this year), Ali Wong (1982, turns 44 this year), Victoria Yeates (1983, turns 43 this year), Kelen Coleman (1984, turns 42 this year), Oksana Akinshina (1987, turns 39 this year), Courtland Mead (1987, turns 39 this year), Maria Sharapova (1987, turns 39 this year), Simu Liu (1989, turns 37 this year), Mia Serafino (1989, turns 37 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.