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 | $279,653,537 |
| 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 | $279,653,537 |
| 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, turns 93 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, turns 79 this year), Dominic Sena (1949, turns 77 this year), Zinaid Memisevic (1950, died on January 7, 2023 at the age of 72), Spice Williams-Crosby (1952, turns 74 this year), Nancy Lenehan (1953, turns 73 this year), Giancarlo Esposito (1958, turns 68 this year), Joan Chen (1961, turns 65 this year), Debra Wilson (1962, turns 64 this year), Jet Li (1963, turns 63 this year), Kevin James (1965, turns 61 this year), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967, turns 59 this year), Glenn Jacobs (1967, turns 59 this year), Kate Hardie (1969, turns 57 this year), Tionne Watkins (1970, turns 56 this year), Jay DeMarcus (1971, turns 55 this year), Shondrella Avery (1971, turns 55 this year), Ivana Milicevic (1974, turns 52 this year), Onahoua Rodriguez (1975, turns 51 this year), Tom Welling (1977, turns 49 this year), Jason Earles (1977, turns 49 this year), McKenzie Westmore (1977, turns 49 this year), Pablo Schreiber (1978, turns 48 this year), Stana Katic (1978, turns 48 this year), Nyambi Nyambi (1979, turns 47 this year), Channing Tatum (1980, turns 46 this year), Anna Mucha (1980, turns 46 this year), Jordana Brewster (1980, turns 46 this year), Marnette Patterson (1980, turns 46 this year), Jonathan Sothcott (1980, turns 46 this year), Holly Davidson (1980, turns 46 this year), Michael Dorman (1981, turns 45 this year), Amit Shah (1981, turns 45 this year), Emily Wickersham (1984, turns 42 this year), Jemima Kirke (1985, turns 41 this year), Falk Hentschel (1985, turns 41 this year), Jessica Rose (1987, turns 39 this year), Annie Starke (1988, turns 38 this year), Luke Bracey (1989, turns 37 this year), Ayame Misaki (1989, turns 37 this year), Riley Voelkel (1990, turns 36 this year), Amber Midthunder (1997, turns 29 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.