On This Day - April 26

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 26.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2019 Avengers: Endgame Friday $157,461,641 $858,373,000
2025 Sinners Saturday $18,813,813 $278,462,768
2025 A Minecraft Movie Saturday $10,575,304 $423,949,195
2014 The Other Woman Saturday $9,664,324 $83,911,193
2025 The Accountant 2 Saturday $9,124,563 $65,523,366
2025 Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith Saturday $8,044,329 $414,378,291
2013 Pain & Gain Friday $7,491,446 $49,875,291
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Saturday $7,318,408 $259,746,958
2003 Anger Management Saturday $7,077,718 $135,560,942
2008 Baby Mama Saturday $7,005,965 $60,494,212

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 26.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2019 Avengers: Endgame Friday $157,461,641 $858,373,000
2013 Pain & Gain Friday $7,491,446 $49,875,291
2024 Challengers Friday $6,255,921 $50,119,408
2024 Unsung Hero Friday $3,623,796 $20,335,239
2002 Jason X Friday $2,601,000 $13,121,555
2013 The Big Wedding Friday $2,576,573 $21,819,348
2002 Life, or Something Like It Friday $2,288,000 $14,448,589
2025 Met Opera: Le Nozze Di Figaro Saturday $933,800 $933,800
2024 Boy Kills World Friday $828,560 $2,626,127
2013 Mud Friday $635,481 $21,590,086

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 26.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2019 Avengers: Endgame $357,115,007 $858,373,000
2025 Sinners $45,708,664 $278,462,768
2009 Obsessed $28,612,730 $68,261,644
2025 Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith $25,495,049 $414,378,291
2014 The Other Woman $24,763,752 $83,911,193
2025 The Accountant 2 $24,533,959 $65,523,366
2025 A Minecraft Movie $22,707,253 $423,949,195
2013 Pain & Gain $20,244,505 $49,875,291
2002 The Scorpion King $18,038,270 $90,580,000
2015 Furious 7 $17,821,440 $353,007,020

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Douglas Sirk (1897, died on January 14, 1987 at the age of 89), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910, died on April 2, 1997 at the age of 86), Bruce Jay Friedman (1930, died on May 3, 2020 at the age of 90), Paul Almond (1931, died on April 9, 2015 at the age of 83), Carol Burnett (1933, turned 92 this year), Claudine Auger (1941, died on December 18, 2019 at the age of 78), Ron McLarty (1947, died on February 8, 2020 at the age of 72), Warren Clarke (1947, died on November 12, 2014 at the age of 67), Alexey Rodionov (1947, turned 78 this year), Dominic Sena (1949, turned 76 this year), Zinaid Memisevic (1950, died on January 7, 2023 at the age of 72), Spice Williams-Crosby (1952, turned 73 this year), Nancy Lenehan (1953, turned 72 this year), Giancarlo Esposito (1958, turned 67 this year), Joan Chen (1961, turned 64 this year), Debra Wilson (1962, turned 63 this year), Jet Li (1963, turned 62 this year), Kevin James (1965, turned 60 this year), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967, turned 58 this year), Glenn Jacobs (1967, turned 58 this year), Kate Hardie (1969, turned 56 this year), Tionne Watkins (1970, turned 55 this year), Jay DeMarcus (1971, turned 54 this year), Shondrella Avery (1971, turned 54 this year), Ivana Milicevic (1974, turned 51 this year), Onahoua Rodriguez (1975, turned 50 this year), Tom Welling (1977, turned 48 this year), Joan Chen (1977, turned 48 this year), McKenzie Westmore (1977, turned 48 this year), Pablo Schreiber (1978, turned 47 this year), Stana Katic (1978, turned 47 this year), Nyambi Nyambi (1979, turned 46 this year), Channing Tatum (1980, turned 45 this year), Anna Mucha (1980, turned 45 this year), Jordana Brewster (1980, turned 45 this year), Marnette Patterson (1980, turned 45 this year), Jonathan Sothcott (1980, turned 45 this year), Holly Davidson (1980, turned 45 this year), Michael Dorman (1981, turned 44 this year), Amit Shah (1981, turned 44 this year), Emily Wickersham (1984, turned 41 this year), Jemima Kirke (1985, turned 40 this year), Falk Hentschel (1985, turned 40 this year), Jessica Rose (1987, turned 38 this year), Annie Starke (1988, turned 37 this year), Emily Wickersham (1989, turned 36 this year), Ayame Misaki (1989, turned 36 this year), Riley Voelkel (1990, turned 35 this year), Amber Midthunder (1997, turned 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Sidney James (1976, at the age of 62), Jim Davis (1981, at the age of 71), Herbert Voland (1981, at the age of 62), Count Basie (1984, at the age of 79), Bessie Love (1986, at the age of 87), Lucille Ball (1989, at the age of 77), Stirling Silliphant (1996, at the age of 78), Peter Stone (2003, at the age of 73), Maria Schell (2005, at the age of 79), Mason Adams (2005, at the age of 86), Jacqueline Brookes (2013, at the age of 82), Jayne Meadows (2015, at the age of 95), Jonathan Demme (2017, at the age of 73), Gianfranco Parolini (2018, at the age of 93), Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (2019, at the age of 76), Peter H. Hunt (2020, at the age of 81), Árni Ásgeirsson (2021, at the age of 49), Ann Davies (2022, at the age of 87)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.