On This Day - April 30
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Tuesday | $33,110,349 | $858,373,000 |
| 2011 | Fast Five | Saturday | $29,935,460 | $210,031,325 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Monday | $24,740,117 | $678,815,482 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Saturday | $19,618,425 | $364,001,123 |
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Friday | $15,735,956 | $63,075,011 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Sunday | $13,745,030 | $574,934,330 |
| 2004 | Mean Girls | Friday | $8,600,000 | $86,047,227 |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Saturday | $8,508,117 | $51,019,112 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | Saturday | $7,558,535 | $97,459,240 |
| 1999 | Entrapment | Friday | $6,980,000 | $87,707,396 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 30.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Friday | $15,735,956 | $63,075,011 |
| 2004 | Mean Girls | Friday | $8,600,000 | $86,047,227 |
| 1999 | Entrapment | Friday | $6,980,000 | $87,707,396 |
| 2004 | Godsend | Friday | $2,400,000 | $14,334,645 |
| 2004 | Laws of Attraction | Friday | $2,300,000 | $17,848,322 |
| 2004 | Envy | Friday | $2,200,000 | $13,548,322 |
| 2010 | Furry Vengeance | Friday | $1,752,086 | $17,630,465 |
| 2021 | Separation | Friday | $684,608 | $4,509,143 |
| 1999 | Idle Hands | Friday | $630,000 | $4,023,741 |
| 2021 | Four Good Days | Friday | $99,804 | $837,849 |
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 30.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fast Five | $86,198,765 | $210,031,325 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $43,714,706 | $364,001,123 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | $40,835,805 | $574,934,330 |
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $32,902,299 | $63,075,011 |
| 2004 | Mean Girls | $24,432,195 | $86,047,227 |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | $21,103,203 | $51,019,112 |
| 1999 | Entrapment | $20,145,595 | $87,707,396 |
| 2017 | The Fate of the Furious | $19,936,540 | $225,764,765 |
| 2006 | R.V. | $16,414,767 | $71,724,497 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | $16,237,070 | $97,459,240 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: David Manners (1901, died on December 23, 1998 at the age of 97), Eve Arden (1908, died on November 12, 1990 at the age of 82), Phil Brown (1916, died on February 9, 2006 at the age of 89), Al Lewis (1923, died on February 3, 2006 at the age of 82), Helen Miller (1924, died on May 18, 2017 at the age of 93), Sheldon Harnick (1924, died on June 23, 2023 at the age of 99), Cloris Leachman (1926, died on January 27, 2021 at the age of 94), Juraj Jakubisko (1938, died on February 24, 2023 at the age of 84), Gary Collins (1938, died on October 13, 2012 at the age of 74), Burt Young (1940, died on October 8, 2023 at the age of 83), Jill Clayburgh (1944, died on November 5, 2010 at the age of 66), Bill Plympton (1946, turned 78 this year), Leslie Grantham (1947, died on June 15, 2018 at the age of 71), Elizabeth Hawthorne (1947, turned 77 this year), Perry King (1948, turned 76 this year), Wayne Kramer (1948, died on February 2, 2024 at the age of 75), Jacques Audiard (1952, turned 72 this year), Jane Campion (1954, turned 70 this year), Thom Bray (1954, turned 70 this year), B.J. Hogg (1955, died on April 30, 2020 at the age of 65), Pradeep Sarkar (1955, died on March 24, 2023 at the age of 67), Lars Von Trier (1956, turned 68 this year), Michael Wright (1956, turned 68 this year), Kit Hesketh-Harvey (1957, died on February 1, 2023 at the age of 65), Charles Berling (1958, turned 66 this year), Paul Gross (1959, turned 65 this year), James Marsh (1963, turned 61 this year), Adrian Pasdar (1965, turned 59 this year), Halit Ergenç (1970, turned 54 this year), Kinna McInroe (1973, turned 51 this year), Johnny Galecki (1975, turned 49 this year), Caroline Craig (1975, turned 49 this year), Alexandra Holden (1977, turned 47 this year), Pell James (1977, turned 47 this year), Rose Rollins (1978, turned 46 this year), Inga Cadranel (1978, turned 46 this year), Sandra Huller (1978, turned 46 this year), Sam Heughan (1980, turned 44 this year), Kunal Nayyar (1981, turned 43 this year), Emma Pierson (1981, turned 43 this year), Kirsten Dunst (1982, turned 42 this year), Drew Seeley (1982, turned 42 this year), Gal Gadot (1985, turned 39 this year), Dianna Agron (1986, turned 38 this year), Ana de Armas (1988, turned 36 this year), Milo Cawthorne (1989, turned 35 this year), Olivia DeJonge (1998, turned 26 this year), Steven Mackintosh (2003, turned 21 this year), Emily Carey (2003, turned 21 this year)
Died on this day in history: Inger Stevens (1970, at the age of 35), Agnes Moorehead (1974, at the age of 73), George Balanchine (1983, at the age of 79), Robert Stevenson (1986, at the age of 81), Sergio Leone (1989, at the age of 60), Guy Williams (1989, at the age of 65), Tom Poston (2007, at the age of 85), George Murdock (2012, at the age of 81), Mike Gray (2013, at the age of 77), Nigel Terry (2015, at the age of 69), Wayne Crawford (2016, at the age of 68), Tracy Scott (2016, at the age of 46), James Burnett (2017, at the age of 48), Peter Mayhew (2019, at the age of 74), Rishi Kapoor (2020, at the age of 67), Tony Allen (2020, at the age of 79), B.J. Hogg (2020, at the age of 65), Bikramjeet Kanwarpal (2021, at the age of 52), Naomi Judd (2022, at the age of 76), Paul Auster (2024, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.