On This Day - May 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Thursday | $50,013,859 | $414,378,291 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Saturday | $47,077,497 | $322,719,944 |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Saturday | $40,474,865 | $324,591,735 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Friday | $28,630,324 | $217,536,138 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Wednesday | $28,542,349 | $487,574,671 |
| 2023 | Fast X | Friday | $28,015,320 | $146,126,015 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | Sunday | $24,369,439 | $310,676,740 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Saturday | $23,587,069 | $623,357,910 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Sunday | $21,594,735 | $228,778,661 |
| 2001 | Shrek | Saturday | $17,561,500 | $268,377,061 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Thursday | $50,013,859 | $414,378,291 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Friday | $28,630,324 | $217,536,138 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Wednesday | $28,542,349 | $487,574,671 |
| 2023 | Fast X | Friday | $28,015,320 | $146,126,015 |
| 2017 | Alien: Covenant | Friday | $15,301,274 | $74,262,031 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Wednesday | $11,786,415 | $439,820,881 |
| 2000 | Dinosaur | Friday | $11,255,000 | $137,748,063 |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | Friday | $10,769,117 | $155,019,340 |
| 2000 | Road Trip | Friday | $5,699,000 | $68,525,609 |
| 2017 | Everything, Everything | Friday | $4,758,846 | $34,121,140 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was May 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | $125,507,153 | $324,591,735 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | $121,629,270 | $322,719,944 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $80,027,814 | $310,676,740 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | $77,073,388 | $217,536,138 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | $70,165,559 | $228,778,661 |
| 2023 | Fast X | $67,017,410 | $146,126,015 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum | $56,818,067 | $171,016,727 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | $55,644,102 | $623,357,910 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $45,036,912 | $405,930,363 |
| 2001 | Shrek | $42,347,760 | $268,377,061 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bruce Bennett (1906, died on February 24, 2007 at the age of 100), Dora Doll (1922, died on November 15, 2015 at the age of 93), Trevor Peacock (1931, died on March 8, 2021 at the age of 89), Pat Roach (1937, died on July 17, 2004 at the age of 67), Girish Karnad (1938, died on June 10, 2019 at the age of 81), Nora Ephron (1941, died on June 26, 2012 at the age of 71), Flemming Quist Møller (1942, died on January 31, 2022 at the age of 79), Frank Pellegrino (1944, died on January 31, 2017 at the age of 72), Peter Mayhew (1944, died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 74), Andre the Giant (1946, died on January 27, 1993 at the age of 46), Michele Placido (1946, turns 80 this year), Roger Sloman (1946, turns 80 this year), Grace Jones (1948, turns 78 this year), Dusty Hill (1949, died on July 28, 2021 at the age of 72), Patrick Caddell (1950, died on February 16, 2019 at the age of 68), Robert Harper (1951, died on January 23, 2020 at the age of 68), Steven Ford (1956, turns 70 this year), Peter R. Adam (1957, died on December 4, 2023 at the age of 66), Jim Ward (1959, died on December 10, 2025 at the age of 66), Sean Whalen (1964, turns 62 this year), Maile Flanagan (1965, turns 61 this year), Polly Walker (1966, turns 60 this year), Geraldine Somerville (1967, turns 59 this year), Morten Tyldum (1967, turns 59 this year), Kyle Eastwood (1968, turns 58 this year), Thomas Vinterberg (1969, turns 57 this year), Jason Gray-Stanford (1970, turns 56 this year), Alison Elliott (1970, turns 56 this year), Claudia Karvan (1972, turns 54 this year), Amanda De Cadenet (1972, turns 54 this year), Özcan Deniz (1972, turns 54 this year), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (1974, turns 52 this year), Berenice Marlohe (1979, turns 47 this year), Sanoe Lake (1979, turns 47 this year), Drew Fuller (1980, turns 46 this year), Georges St-Pierre (1981, turns 45 this year), Isabella Ragonese (1981, turns 45 this year), Rhatha Phongam (1983, turns 43 this year), Catherine Haena Kim (1984, turns 42 this year), Jon Kortajarena (1985, turns 41 this year), Eric Lloyd (1986, turns 40 this year), Jayne Wisener (1987, turns 39 this year), Danielle Macdonald (1991, turns 35 this year), Eleanor Tomlinson (1992, turns 34 this year), Ryunosuke Kamiki (1993, turns 33 this year), Sarah Grey (1996, turns 30 this year), Michela Luci (2006, turns 20 this year)
Died on this day in history: Ronald Colman (1958, at the age of 67), Robert Webber (1989, at the age of 64), Martin Cohen (2020, at the age of 64), Hagen Mills (2020, at the age of 29), David Hayman (2020, at the age of 72), Charles M. Lippincott (2020, at the age of 80), Paul Mooney (2021, at the age of 79), Jean-Louis Comolli (2022, at the age of 80), Martin Amis (2023, at the age of 73), Richard Foronjy (2024, at the age of 86)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.