On This Day - August 19

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2022 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) Friday $10,915,414 $32,132,374
2007 Superbad Sunday $10,267,489 $121,463,226
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Sunday $8,958,015 $174,532,921
2023 Blue Beetle Saturday $8,514,055 $72,541,501
2023 Barbie Saturday $8,378,293 $636,785,476
2017 The Hitman’s Bodyguard Saturday $7,902,414 $75,468,583
2012 The Expendables 2 Sunday $7,886,826 $85,028,192
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin Friday $7,055,565 $109,519,237
2018 The Meg Sunday $6,384,930 $145,443,742
2017 Annabelle: Creation Saturday $6,358,447 $102,092,201

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2022 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) Friday $10,915,414 $32,132,374
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin Friday $7,055,565 $109,519,237
2005 Red Eye Friday $6,100,000 $57,891,803
2016 War Dogs Friday $5,550,589 $43,034,523
2022 Beast Friday $4,307,590 $31,846,530
2016 Ben-Hur Friday $4,134,322 $26,410,477
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings Friday $4,061,170 $48,023,088
2011 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Friday $4,015,064 $38,536,376
2011 Conan the Barbarian Friday $3,673,635 $21,295,021
2011 Fright Night Friday $3,074,371 $18,298,649

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 19.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2007 Superbad $33,052,411 $121,463,226
2012 The Expendables 2 $28,591,370 $85,028,192
2018 Crazy Rich Asians $26,510,140 $174,532,921
2023 Blue Beetle $25,030,225 $72,541,501
1995 Mortal Kombat $23,283,887 $70,433,227
2005 The 40 Year-old Virgin $21,422,815 $109,519,237
2017 The Hitman’s Bodyguard $21,384,504 $75,468,583
2007 Rush Hour 3 $21,353,361 $140,125,968
2018 The Meg $21,151,012 $145,443,742
2022 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (ラゴンボール超 スーパーヒーロー) $21,124,049 $32,132,374

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Claude Dauphin (1903, died on November 16, 1978 at the age of 75), Dick Simmons (1913, died on January 11, 2003 at the age of 89), Gene Roddenberry (1921, died on October 24, 1991 at the age of 70), David Lodge (1921, died on January 1, 2025 at the age of 103), Angus Scrimm (1926, died on January 9, 2016 at the age of 89), L.Q. Jones (1927, died on July 9, 2022 at the age of 94), Alan Metter (1933, died on June 7, 2020 at the age of 86), Debra Paget (1933, turned 92 this year), Robert Towers (1936, turned 89 this year), Diana Muldaur (1938, turned 87 this year), Ginger Baker (1939, died on October 6, 2019 at the age of 80), Jill St. John (1940, turned 85 this year), Fred Dalton Thompson (1942, died on November 1, 2015 at the age of 73), Christopher Malcolm (1946, died on February 15, 2014 at the age of 67), Bill Clinton (1946, turned 79 this year), Lung Ti (1946, turned 79 this year), Gerald McRaney (1947, turned 78 this year), Jim Carter (1948, turned 77 this year), Ian McElhinney (1948, turned 77 this year), Gustavo Santaolalla (1951, turned 74 this year), Jonathan Frakes (1952, turned 73 this year), George Steiner (1952, died on September 25, 2020 at the age of 68), Nanni Moretti (1953, turned 72 this year), Peter Gallagher (1955, turned 70 this year), Adam Arkin (1956, turned 69 this year), Daniel Quinn (1956, died on July 4, 2015 at the age of 58), Martin Donovan (1957, turned 68 this year), Bill Anagnos (1958, died on January 15, 2019 at the age of 60), Tony Longo (1961, died on June 21, 2015 at the age of 53), Ville Virtanen (1961, turned 64 this year), Mike Massimino (1962, turned 63 this year), John Stamos (1963, turned 62 this year), Matthew Glave (1963, turned 62 this year), Stu Riley (1963, turned 62 this year), Kyra Sedgwick (1965, turned 60 this year), Kevin Dillon (1965, turned 60 this year), Maria de Medeiros (1965, turned 60 this year), Lucy Briers (1967, turned 58 this year), Tabitha Soren (1967, turned 58 this year), Matthew Perry (1969, died on October 28, 2023 at the age of 54), Paula Jai Parker (1969, turned 56 this year), Viveka Davis (1969, turned 56 this year), Fat Joe (1970, turned 55 this year), Ahmed Best (1973, turned 52 this year), Tracie Thoms (1975, turned 50 this year), Callum Blue (1977, turned 48 this year), Michelle Borth (1978, turned 47 this year), Thomas Q. Jones (1978, turned 47 this year), Adam Campbell (1980, turned 45 this year), Aimee-Lynn Chadwick (1980, turned 45 this year), Darius Campbell (1980, turned 45 this year), Melissa Fumero (1982, turned 43 this year), Erika Christensen (1982, turned 43 this year), Tammin Sursok (1983, turned 42 this year), Peter Mooney (1983, turned 42 this year), Mike Moh (1983, turned 42 this year), Simon Bird (1984, turned 41 this year), J. Evan Bonifant (1985, turned 40 this year), David A. Gregory (1985, turned 40 this year), Morgana O'Reilly (1985, turned 40 this year), Simon Stone (1985, turned 40 this year), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (1987, turned 38 this year), Travis Tedford (1988, turned 37 this year), Romeo Miller (1989, turned 36 this year), John Crowley (1997, turned 28 this year), Tristan Lake Leabu (1999, turned 26 this year), Brighton Sharbino (2002, turned 23 this year), Steele Stebbins (2003, turned 22 this year), Eva Hauge (2006, turned 19 this year)

Died on this day in history: Alastair Sim (1976, at the age of 75), Hermione Baddeley (1986, at the age of 79), Hayden Rorke (1987, at the age of 76), Utpal Dutt (1993, at the age of 64), Raoul Ruiz (2011, at the age of 70), Tony Scott (2012, at the age of 68), Lee Thompson Young (2013, at the age of 29), Stephenie McMillan (2013, at the age of 71), Louis J. Pearlman (2016, at the age of 62), Jack Riley (2016, at the age of 80), Brian Aldiss (2017, at the age of 92), Dick Gregory (2017, at the age of 84), Sujata Kumar (2018, at the age of 84), Khaira Arby (2018, at the age of 84), James R. Alexander (2019, at the age of 88), Sonny Chiba (2021, at the age of 82), Chuck Close (2021, at the age of 81), Taheim Bryan (2021, at the age of 81), Ron Cephas Jones (2023, at the age of 66), Igor Yasulovich (2023, at the age of 81), Michel Fessler (2025, at the age of 81), Eduardo Serra (2025, at the age of 81)

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