On This Day - May 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Thursday | $50,013,859 | $380,270,577 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Saturday | $47,077,497 | $322,719,944 |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Saturday | $40,474,865 | $324,591,735 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Friday | $28,630,324 | $217,536,138 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Wednesday | $28,542,349 | $487,333,871 |
| 2023 | Fast X | Friday | $28,015,320 | $146,126,015 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | Sunday | $24,369,439 | $310,676,740 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Saturday | $23,587,069 | $623,357,910 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Sunday | $21,594,735 | $228,778,661 |
| 2001 | Shrek | Saturday | $17,561,500 | $268,028,651 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Thursday | $50,013,859 | $380,270,577 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Friday | $28,630,324 | $217,536,138 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Wednesday | $28,542,349 | $487,333,871 |
| 2023 | Fast X | Friday | $28,015,320 | $146,126,015 |
| 2017 | Alien: Covenant | Friday | $15,301,274 | $74,262,031 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Wednesday | $11,786,415 | $441,426,807 |
| 2000 | Dinosaur | Friday | $11,255,000 | $137,748,063 |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | Friday | $10,769,117 | $155,019,340 |
| 2000 | Road Trip | Friday | $5,699,000 | $68,525,609 |
| 2017 | Everything, Everything | Friday | $4,758,846 | $34,121,140 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was May 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | $125,507,153 | $324,591,735 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | $121,629,270 | $322,719,944 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $80,027,814 | $310,676,740 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | $77,073,388 | $217,536,138 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | $70,165,559 | $228,778,661 |
| 2023 | Fast X | $67,017,410 | $146,126,015 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum | $56,818,067 | $171,016,727 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | $55,644,102 | $623,357,910 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $45,036,912 | $404,652,858 |
| 2001 | Shrek | $42,347,760 | $268,028,651 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bruce Bennett (1906, died on February 24, 2007 at the age of 100), Dora Doll (1922, died on November 15, 2015 at the age of 93), Trevor Peacock (1931, died on March 8, 2021 at the age of 89), Pat Roach (1937, died on July 17, 2004 at the age of 67), Girish Karnad (1938, died on June 10, 2019 at the age of 81), Nora Ephron (1941, died on June 26, 2012 at the age of 71), Flemming Quist Møller (1942, died on January 31, 2022 at the age of 79), Frank Pellegrino (1944, died on January 31, 2017 at the age of 72), Peter Mayhew (1944, died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 74), Andre the Giant (1946, died on January 27, 1993 at the age of 46), Michele Placido (1946, turns 78 today), Roger Sloman (1946, turns 78 today), Grace Jones (1948, turns 76 today), Dusty Hill (1949, died on July 28, 2021 at the age of 72), Patrick Caddell (1950, died on February 16, 2019 at the age of 68), Robert Harper (1951, died on January 23, 2020 at the age of 68), Steven Ford (1956, turns 68 today), Peter R. Adam (1957, died on December 4, 2023 at the age of 66), Jim Ward (1959, died on March 18, 2024 at the age of 64), Sean Whalen (1964, turns 60 today), Maile Flanagan (1965, turns 59 today), Polly Walker (1966, turns 58 today), Geraldine Somerville (1967, turns 57 today), Morten Tyldum (1967, turns 57 today), Kyle Eastwood (1968, turns 56 today), Thomas Vinterberg (1969, turns 55 today), Jason Gray-Stanford (1970, turns 54 today), Alison Elliott (1970, turns 54 today), Claudia Karvan (1972, turns 52 today), Amanda De Cadenet (1972, turns 52 today), Özcan Deniz (1972, turns 52 today), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (1974, turns 50 today), Berenice Marlohe (1979, turns 45 today), Sanoe Lake (1979, turns 45 today), Drew Fuller (1980, turns 44 today), Georges St-Pierre (1981, turns 43 today), Isabella Ragonese (1981, turns 43 today), Rhatha Phongam (1983, turns 41 today), Catherine Haena Kim (1984, turns 40 today), Jon Kortajarena (1985, turns 39 today), Eric Lloyd (1986, turns 38 today), Jayne Wisener (1987, turns 37 today), Danielle Macdonald (1991, turns 33 today), Eleanor Tomlinson (1992, turns 32 today), Ryunosuke Kamiki (1993, turns 31 today), Sarah Grey (1996, turns 28 today), Michela Luci (2006, turns 18 today)
Died on this day in history: Ronald Colman (1958, at the age of 67), Robert Webber (1989, at the age of 64), Martin Cohen (2020, at the age of 64), Hagen Mills (2020, at the age of 29), David Hayman (2020, at the age of 72), Charles M. Lippincott (2020, at the age of 80), Paul Mooney (2021, at the age of 79), Jean-Louis Comolli (2022, at the age of 80), Martin Amis (2023, at the age of 73)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.