On This Day - April 23
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Saturday | $26,716,782 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Sunday | $19,651,085 | $574,934,330 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | Sunday | $10,482,090 | $225,764,765 |
| 2011 | Rio | Saturday | $9,881,250 | $143,619,809 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Saturday | $9,749,530 | $72,708,161 |
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | Friday | $9,536,257 | $50,272,044 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | Saturday | $9,347,700 | $97,459,240 |
| 2011 | Madea’s Big Happy Family | Saturday | $9,100,379 | $53,345,287 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | Friday | $9,090,000 | $42,326,031 |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter’s War | Saturday | $7,583,235 | $48,003,015 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 23.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編) | Friday | $9,536,257 | $50,272,044 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | Friday | $9,090,000 | $42,326,031 |
| 2004 | 13 Going On 30 | Friday | $7,400,000 | $57,139,723 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Friday | $7,300,000 | $77,906,816 |
| 2010 | The Back-up Plan | Friday | $4,257,676 | $37,490,007 |
| 2010 | The Losers | Friday | $3,236,476 | $23,591,432 |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Friday | $1,175,000 | $8,408,835 |
| 1999 | Lost and Found | Friday | $1,045,000 | $6,552,255 |
| 2023 | Spirited Away: Live on Stage | Sunday | $702,744 | $1,455,081 |
| 2021 | Together Together | Friday | $182,712 | $1,436,324 |
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 23.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $61,538,821 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $59,930,940 | $574,934,330 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $38,408,415 | $225,764,765 |
| 2011 | Rio | $26,323,321 | $143,619,809 |
| 2011 | Madea’s Big Happy Family | $25,068,677 | $53,345,287 |
| 2023 | Evil Dead Rise | $24,504,315 | $67,356,372 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | $23,950,245 | $97,459,240 |
| 2021 | Mortal Kombat | $23,302,503 | $42,326,031 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | $22,822,455 | $72,708,161 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | $22,751,490 | $77,906,816 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: An Untitled F.A.S.T. Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: William Shakespeare (1564, died on April 23, 1616 at the age of 52), Shirley Temple (1928, died on February 10, 2014 at the age of 85), Alan Oppenheimer (1930, turns 96 this year), Roy Halston (1932, died on March 26, 1990 at the age of 57), Angela McEwan (1934, died on December 20, 2015 at the age of 81), Roy Orbison (1936, died on December 6, 1988 at the age of 52), Patrick Williams (1939, died on July 25, 2018 at the age of 79), Lee Majors (1939, turns 87 this year), Jorge Fons (1939, died on September 22, 2022 at the age of 83), Michael Lynne (1941, died on March 24, 2019 at the age of 77), Sandra Dee (1942, died on February 20, 2005 at the age of 62), Sheila Gish (1942, turns 84 this year), Herve Villechaize (1943, died on September 4, 1993 at the age of 50), Jean-Francois Stevenin (1944, turns 82 this year), Blair Brown (1946, turns 80 this year), Henry Goodman (1950, turns 76 this year), James Russo (1953, turns 73 this year), Michael Moore (1954, turns 72 this year), Lucinda Jenney (1954, turns 72 this year), Judy Davis (1955, turns 71 this year), Kevin Meaney (1956, died on October 21, 2016 at the age of 60), Tonino Zangardi (1957, died on February 19, 2018 at the age of 60), Jan Hooks (1957, died on October 9, 2014 at the age of 57), Dan Frischman (1959, turns 67 this year), Valerie Bertinelli (1960, turns 66 this year), Craig Sheffer (1960, turns 66 this year), George Lopez (1961, turns 65 this year), John Hannah (1962, turns 64 this year), Melina Kanakaredes (1967, turns 59 this year), Manoj Bajpayee (1969, turns 57 this year), Scott Bairstow (1970, turns 56 this year), D.B. Weiss (1971, turns 55 this year), Cem Yilmaz (1973, turns 53 this year), Barry Watson (1974, turns 52 this year), Aaron Dessner (1976, turns 50 this year), Gabriel Damon (1976, turns 50 this year), John Cena (1977, turns 49 this year), Kal Penn (1977, turns 49 this year), John Oliver (1977, turns 49 this year), Eric Edelstein (1977, turns 49 this year), Joanna Krupa (1979, turns 47 this year), Jaime King (1979, turns 47 this year), Sally Bretton (1980, turns 46 this year), Gemma Whelan (1981, turns 45 this year), Aaron Hill (1983, turns 43 this year), Jesse Lee Soffer (1984, turns 42 this year), Rachel Skarsten (1985, turns 41 this year), Molly Burnett (1988, turns 38 this year), Carla Quevedo (1988, turns 38 this year), Anastasia Baranova (1989, turns 37 this year), Dev Patel (1990, turns 36 this year), Matthew Underwood (1990, turns 36 this year), Gigi Hadid (1995, turns 31 this year), Charles S. Rowe (1996, turns 30 this year), Maddison Brown (1997, turns 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: William Shakespeare (1616, at the age of 52), Jules Berry (1951, at the age of 68), Kent Smith (1985, at the age of 78), Otto Preminger (1986, at the age of 80), Paulette Goddard (1990, at the age of 79), Satyajit Ray (1992, at the age of 70), P.L. Travers (1996, at the age of 96), John Mills (2005, at the age of 97), Michael Glawogger (2014, at the age of 54), Terry Rawlings (2019, at the age of 86), Mark Medoff (2019, at the age of 79), David Winters (2019, at the age of 80), Bruce Allpress (2020, at the age of 89), Amit Mistry (2021, at the age of 89), Philippe Laudenbach (2024, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.