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 | $278,541,000 |
| 2025 | A Minecraft Movie | Friday | $16,000,498 | $423,949,195 |
| 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 | $278,541,000 |
| 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 | $278,541,000 |
| 2025 | A Minecraft Movie | $40,497,865 | $423,949,195 |
| 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, turned 144 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, turned 95 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, turned 79 this year), James Woods (1947, turned 78 this year), Jerzy Stuhr (1947, died on July 9, 2024 at the age of 77), Cindy Pickett (1947, turned 78 this year), Dorothy Lyman (1947, turned 78 this year), Kenny Ortega (1950, turned 75 this year), Rick Moranis (1953, turned 72 this year), Cynthia Ettinger (1954, turned 71 this year), Eric Roberts (1956, turned 69 this year), Jane Leeves (1961, turned 64 this year), Jeff Dunham (1962, turned 63 this year), Conan O’Brien (1963, turned 62 this year), Eric McCormack (1963, turned 62 this year), Rithy Panh (1964, turned 61 this year), Frederick Weller (1966, turned 59 this year), Andrew Karpen (1966, died on April 28, 2025 at the age of 59), Maria Bello (1967, turned 58 this year), David Hewlett (1968, turned 57 this year), Mary Birdsong (1968, turned 57 this year), David Tennant (1971, turned 54 this year), Tamara Braun (1971, turned 54 this year), Eli Roth (1972, turned 53 this year), Juhan Ulfsak (1973, turned 52 this year), Edgar Wright (1974, turned 51 this year), Melissa Joan Hart (1976, turned 49 this year), Sean Maguire (1976, turned 49 this year), Kevin Rankin (1976, turned 49 this year), Derek Phillips (1976, turned 49 this year), Bryce Johnson (1977, turned 48 this year), Baran bo Odar (1978, turned 47 this year), Ethan Cohn (1979, turned 46 this year), Reeve Carney (1983, turned 42 this year), America Ferrera (1984, turned 41 this year), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987, turned 38 this year), Vanessa Kirby (1988, turned 37 this year), Nicolette Robinson (1988, turned 37 this year), Alia Shawkat (1989, turned 36 this year), Britt Robertson (1990, turned 35 this year), Joey Gaydos Jr. (1991, turned 34 this year), Chloe Bennet (1992, turned 33 this year), Moises Arias (1994, turned 31 this year), Virginia Gardner (1995, turned 30 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.