On This Day - March 18
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Saturday | $62,706,808 | $504,014,165 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Friday | $14,800,000 | $75,941,727 |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | Saturday | $12,500,000 | $125,548,685 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Saturday | $12,257,255 | $168,052,812 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Friday | $11,935,887 | $66,184,051 |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | Saturday | $11,004,081 | $57,721,819 |
| 2022 | The Batman | Friday | $10,716,576 | $369,612,903 |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Saturday | $10,388,447 | $70,511,035 |
| 2007 | 300 | Sunday | $10,247,556 | $210,614,939 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | Sunday | $10,133,267 | $138,447,667 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Friday | $14,800,000 | $75,941,727 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Friday | $11,935,887 | $66,184,051 |
| 2022 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | Friday | $8,675,953 | $33,919,605 |
| 2011 | Limitless | Friday | $6,631,632 | $79,249,455 |
| 2011 | Paul | Friday | $4,469,190 | $37,412,945 |
| 2011 | The Lincoln Lawyer | Friday | $4,087,192 | $58,009,200 |
| 2005 | Ice Princess | Friday | $2,200,000 | $24,381,334 |
| 2022 | X | Friday | $1,776,300 | $11,769,469 |
| 2022 | The Outfit | Friday | $530,790 | $3,344,040 |
| 2022 | The Kashmir Files | Friday | $413,000 | $1,485,000 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 18.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | $174,750,616 | $504,014,165 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | $37,164,158 | $341,268,248 |
| 2022 | The Batman | $36,723,197 | $369,612,903 |
| 2012 | 21 Jump Street | $36,302,612 | $138,447,667 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | $35,065,237 | $75,941,727 |
| 2007 | 300 | $32,877,328 | $210,614,939 |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | $30,111,158 | $57,721,819 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | $29,027,348 | $66,184,051 |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | $28,138,465 | $125,548,685 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | $27,832,142 | $168,052,812 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Edward Everett Horton (1886, died on September 29, 1970 at the age of 84), Robert Donat (1905, died on June 9, 1958 at the age of 53), René Clément (1913, died on March 17, 1996 at the age of 82), Peter Graves (1926, died on March 14, 2010 at the age of 83), John Mollo (1931, died on October 25, 2017 at the age of 86), John Updike (1932, died on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76), Shashi Kapoor (1938, died on December 4, 2017 at the age of 79), Mark Medoff (1940, died on April 23, 2019 at the age of 79), Ritch Brinkley (1944, died on November 5, 2015 at the age of 71), Frank McRae (1944, turns 82 this year), Susan Tyrrell (1945, died on June 16, 2021 at the age of 76), Olek Krupa (1947, turns 79 this year), Toni Bertorelli (1948, died on May 26, 2017 at the age of 69), Brad Dourif (1950, turns 76 this year), Luc Besson (1959, turns 67 this year), Irene Cara (1959, died on November 25, 2022 at the age of 63), Steve Kloves (1960, turns 66 this year), Geoffrey Owens (1961, turns 65 this year), Thomas Ian Griffith (1962, turns 64 this year), Vanessa Williams (1963, turns 63 this year), Sterling Wolfe (1964, died on February 15, 2019 at the age of 54), David Cubitt (1965, turns 61 this year), Tamer Hassan (1968, turns 58 this year), Queen Latifah (1970, turns 56 this year), Raquel Gardner (1970, turns 56 this year), Dane Cook (1972, turns 54 this year), Luci Christian (1973, turns 53 this year), Adam Levine (1979, turns 47 this year), Sophia Myles (1980, turns 46 this year), Chris Geere (1981, turns 45 this year), Vanessa Lee Evigan (1981, turns 45 this year), Adam Pally (1982, turns 44 this year), Chike Okonkwo (1982, turns 44 this year), Cindy Busby (1983, turns 43 this year), Duane Henry (1985, turns 41 this year), Aislinn Derbez (1986, turns 40 this year), Lily Collins (1989, turns 37 this year), Alan Aisenberg (1993, turns 33 this year), Julia Goldani Telles (1995, turns 31 this year), Madeline Carroll (1996, turns 30 this year), Eva Noblezada (1996, turns 30 this year), Grace Hogg-Robinson (1996, turns 30 this year), Ciara Bravo (1997, turns 29 this year), Abigail Cowen (1998, turns 28 this year)
Died on this day in history: William Beaudine (1970, at the age of 78), Leigh Brackett (1978, at the age of 62), Peggy Wood (1978, at the age of 86), Robin Harris (1990, at the age of 36), John Phillips (2001, at the age of 65), Denis Forest (2002, at the age of 41), Natasha Richardson (2009, at the age of 45), Chuck Berry (2017, at the age of 90)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.