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 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Resident Evil, Practical Magic 2
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 103 this year), Enrico Maria Salerno (1926, turned 99 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 85 this year), Gerry Bamman (1941, turned 84 this year), Nicholas Clay (1946, died on May 25, 2000 at the age of 53), Gailard Sartain (1946, died on June 19, 2025 at the age of 78), Struan Rodger (1946, turned 79 this year), Beth Grant (1949, turned 76 this year), Anna Deavere Smith (1950, turned 75 this year), Vishnuvardhan (1950, died on December 30, 2009 at the age of 59), Shabana Azmi (1950, turned 75 this year), Anna Thomson (1953, turned 72 this year), Jeremy Roberts (1954, turned 71 this year), David Mirkin (1955, turned 70 this year), Tim McInnerny (1956, turned 69 this year), Mark Romanek (1959, turned 66 this year), James Gandolfini (1961, died on June 19, 2013 at the age of 51), Andrew Airlie (1961, turned 64 this year), John W. Mann (1962, turned 63 this year), Morgana Shaw (1962, turned 63 this year), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963, turned 62 this year), Dan Povenmire (1963, turned 62 this year), John Powell (1963, turned 62 this year), Holly Robinson Peete (1964, turned 61 this year), Holly Robinson Peete (1964, turned 61 this year), Shawna Trpcic (1966, died on October 4, 2023 at the age of 57), Tara Fitzgerald (1967, turned 58 this year), Aisha Tyler (1970, turned 55 this year), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971, turned 54 this year), Anna Netrebko (1971, turned 54 this year), Lance Armstrong (1971, turned 54 this year), Carrie Genzel (1971, turned 54 this year), Michael Landes (1972, turned 53 this year), Eric Chase Anderson (1972, turned 53 this year), James Marsden (1973, turned 52 this year), Xzibit (1974, turned 51 this year), Travis Schuldt (1974, turned 51 this year), Emily Rutherford (1974, turned 51 this year), Jason Sudeikis (1975, turned 50 this year), Charlie Finn (1975, turned 50 this year), Guri Alfi (1976, turned 49 this year), Sameh Abdulaziz (1976, died on July 10, 2025 at the age of 48), Sara Haines (1977, turned 48 this year), Billy Eichner (1978, turned 47 this year), Pilar Lopez de Ayala (1978, turned 47 this year), Alison Lohman (1979, turned 46 this year), Liv Mjones (1979, turned 46 this year), Rhys Thomas (1979, turned 46 this year), Annie B. Compton (1983, turned 42 this year), Nina Arianda (1984, turned 41 this year), Jack Carpenter (1984, turned 41 this year), Sepideh Moafi (1985, turned 40 this year), Chris Riggi (1985, turned 40 this year), Keeley Hazell (1986, turned 39 this year), Shoshana Bush (1988, turned 37 this year), Christina Chong (1988, turned 37 this year), Lexie Contursi (1989, turned 36 this year), Patrick Schwarzenegger (1993, turned 32 this year), C.J. Sanders (1996, turned 29 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), Robo Shankar (2025, at the age of 46), Brett James (2025, at the age of 57), Agnes Gund (2025, at the age of 87)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.