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 | $636,238,421 |
| 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 | $109,449,237 |
| 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 | $109,449,237 |
| 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 | $109,449,237 |
| 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, turned 103 this year), 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 91 this year), Robert Towers (1936, turned 88 this year), Diana Muldaur (1938, turned 86 this year), Ginger Baker (1939, died on October 6, 2019 at the age of 80), Jill St. John (1940, turned 84 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 78 this year), Lung Ti (1946, turned 78 this year), Gerald McRaney (1947, turned 77 this year), Jim Carter (1948, turned 76 this year), Ian McElhinney (1948, turned 76 this year), Gustavo Santaolalla (1951, turned 73 this year), Jonathan Frakes (1952, turned 72 this year), George Steiner (1952, died on September 25, 2020 at the age of 68), Nanni Moretti (1953, turned 71 this year), Peter Gallagher (1955, turned 69 this year), Adam Arkin (1956, turned 68 this year), Daniel Quinn (1956, died on July 4, 2015 at the age of 58), Martin Donovan (1957, turned 67 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 63 this year), Mike Massimino (1962, turned 62 this year), John Stamos (1963, turned 61 this year), Matthew Glave (1963, turned 61 this year), Stu Riley (1963, turned 61 this year), Kyra Sedgwick (1965, turned 59 this year), Kevin Dillon (1965, turned 59 this year), Maria de Medeiros (1965, turned 59 this year), Lucy Briers (1967, turned 57 this year), Tabitha Soren (1967, turned 57 this year), Richard Harmon (1969, turned 55 this year), Paula Jai Parker (1969, turned 55 this year), Viveka Davis (1969, turned 55 this year), Fat Joe (1970, turned 54 this year), Ahmed Best (1973, turned 51 this year), Tracie Thoms (1975, turned 49 this year), Callum Blue (1977, turned 47 this year), Michelle Borth (1978, turned 46 this year), Thomas Q. Jones (1978, turned 46 this year), Adam Campbell (1980, turned 44 this year), Aimee-Lynn Chadwick (1980, turned 44 this year), Darius Campbell (1980, turned 44 this year), Melissa Fumero (1982, turned 42 this year), Erika Christensen (1982, turned 42 this year), Tammin Sursok (1983, turned 41 this year), Peter Mooney (1983, turned 41 this year), Mike Moh (1983, turned 41 this year), Simon Bird (1984, turned 40 this year), J. Evan Bonifant (1985, turned 39 this year), David A. Gregory (1985, turned 39 this year), Morgana O'Reilly (1985, turned 39 this year), Simon Stone (1985, turned 39 this year), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (1987, turned 37 this year), Travis Tedford (1988, turned 36 this year), Romeo Miller (1989, turned 35 this year), John Crowley (1997, turned 27 this year), Tristan Lake Leabu (1999, turned 25 this year), Brighton Sharbino (2002, turned 22 this year), Steele Stebbins (2003, turned 21 this year), Eva Hauge (2006, turned 18 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)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.