On This Day - September 18

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on September 18.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Day Domestic
Box Office
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Friday $11,003,998 $81,697,192
1998 Rush Hour Friday $10,000,000 $141,186,864
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Saturday $9,754,340 $224,543,292
2010 The Town Saturday $9,423,433 $92,186,262
2011 The Lion King Sunday $9,298,131 $423,981,226
2015 Black Mass Friday $8,773,297 $62,575,678
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Friday $8,137,358 $124,870,275
2010 Easy A Saturday $7,130,306 $58,401,464
1999 Blue Streak Saturday $7,127,000 $68,208,190
2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Saturday $6,529,339 $37,760,080

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on September 18.

Year Title Day of
Week		 Opening
Day		 Domestic
Box Office
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Friday $11,003,998 $81,697,192
1998 Rush Hour Friday $10,000,000 $141,186,864
2015 Black Mass Friday $8,773,297 $62,575,678
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Friday $8,137,358 $124,870,275
2009 The Informant! Friday $3,674,586 $33,316,821
2009 Love Happens Friday $3,093,740 $22,965,110
2009 Jennifer's Body Friday $2,800,643 $16,204,793
2015 Everest Friday $2,298,380 $43,482,270
1998 One True Thing Friday $2,030,000 $23,337,196
2024 Jung Kook: I Am Still (정국: 아이 엠 스틸) Wednesday $918,576 $2,500,823

Record Weekend

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was September 18.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
1998 Rush Hour $33,001,803 $141,186,864
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $30,316,510 $81,697,192
2009 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $30,304,648 $124,870,275
2011 The Lion King $29,156,757 $423,981,226
2010 The Town $23,808,032 $92,186,262
2015 Black Mass $22,635,037 $62,575,678
2021 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $21,670,751 $224,543,292
2016 Sully $21,653,017 $125,070,033
1999 Blue Streak $19,208,806 $68,208,190
2022 The Woman King $19,051,442 $67,328,130

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Greta Garbo (1905, died on April 15, 1990 at the age of 84), Agnes de Mille (1905, died on October 7, 1993 at the age of 88), Leon Askin (1907, died on June 3, 2005 at the age of 97), Jack Cardiff (1914, died on April 22, 2009 at the age of 94), Rossano Brazzi (1916, died on December 24, 1994 at the age of 78), June Foray (1917, died on July 26, 2017 at the age of 99), Jack Warden (1920, died on July 19, 2006 at the age of 85), Grayson Hall (1922, turned 102 this year), Enrico Maria Salerno (1926, turned 98 this year), Robert Blake (1933, died on March 9, 2023 at the age of 89), Fred Willard (1939, died on May 15, 2020 at the age of 80), Frankie Avalon (1940, turned 84 this year), Gerry Bamman (1941, turned 83 this year), Nicholas Clay (1946, died on May 25, 2000 at the age of 53), Gailard Sartain (1946, turned 78 this year), Struan Rodger (1946, turned 78 this year), Beth Grant (1949, turned 75 this year), Anna Deavere Smith (1950, turned 74 this year), Vishnuvardhan (1950, died on December 30, 2009 at the age of 59), Shabana Azmi (1950, turned 74 this year), Anna Thomson (1953, turned 71 this year), Jeremy Roberts (1954, turned 70 this year), David Mirkin (1955, turned 69 this year), Tim McInnerny (1956, turned 68 this year), Mark Romanek (1959, turned 65 this year), James Gandolfini (1961, died on June 19, 2013 at the age of 51), Andrew Airlie (1961, turned 63 this year), John W. Mann (1962, turned 62 this year), Morgana Shaw (1962, turned 62 this year), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963, turned 61 this year), Dan Povenmire (1963, turned 61 this year), John Powell (1963, turned 61 this year), Holly Robinson Peete (1964, turned 60 this year), Holly Robinson Peete (1964, turned 60 this year), Shawna Trpcic (1966, died on October 4, 2023 at the age of 57), Tara Fitzgerald (1967, turned 57 this year), Aisha Tyler (1970, turned 54 this year), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971, turned 53 this year), Anna Netrebko (1971, turned 53 this year), Lance Armstrong (1971, turned 53 this year), Carrie Genzel (1971, turned 53 this year), Michael Landes (1972, turned 52 this year), Eric Chase Anderson (1972, turned 52 this year), James Marsden (1973, turned 51 this year), Xzibit (1974, turned 50 this year), Travis Schuldt (1974, turned 50 this year), Emily Rutherford (1974, turned 50 this year), Jason Sudeikis (1975, turned 49 this year), Charlie Finn (1975, turned 49 this year), Guri Alfi (1976, turned 48 this year), Sara Haines (1977, turned 47 this year), Billy Eichner (1978, turned 46 this year), Pilar Lopez de Ayala (1978, turned 46 this year), Alison Lohman (1979, turned 45 this year), Liv Mjones (1979, turned 45 this year), Rhys Thomas (1979, turned 45 this year), Annie B. Compton (1983, turned 41 this year), Nina Arianda (1984, turned 40 this year), Jack Carpenter (1984, turned 40 this year), Sepideh Moafi (1985, turned 39 this year), Chris Riggi (1985, turned 39 this year), Keeley Hazell (1986, turned 38 this year), Shoshana Bush (1988, turned 36 this year), Christina Chong (1988, turned 36 this year), Lexie Contursi (1989, turned 35 this year), Patrick Schwarzenegger (1993, turned 31 this year), C.J. Sanders (1996, turned 28 this year)

Died on this day in history: Frank Morgan (1949, at the age of 59), Franchot Tone (1968, at the age of 63), Francis McDonald (1968, at the age of 77), Russ Meyer (2004, at the age of 82), Nancy Bernstein (2015, at the age of 55), Ben Hammer (2017, at the age of 92), Chuck Low (2017, at the age of 89), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2020, at the age of 87), Mario Camus (2021, at the age of 86), Marcello Magni (2022, at the age of 86), Byun Heebong (2023, at the age of 81), Felice Farina (2023, at the age of 69)

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