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 | $487,517,524 |
| 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 | $487,517,524 |
| 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, turned 78 this year), Roger Sloman (1946, turned 78 this year), Grace Jones (1948, turned 76 this year), 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, turned 68 this year), 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, turned 60 this year), Maile Flanagan (1965, turned 59 this year), Polly Walker (1966, turned 58 this year), Geraldine Somerville (1967, turned 57 this year), Morten Tyldum (1967, turned 57 this year), Kyle Eastwood (1968, turned 56 this year), Thomas Vinterberg (1969, turned 55 this year), Jason Gray-Stanford (1970, turned 54 this year), Alison Elliott (1970, turned 54 this year), Claudia Karvan (1972, turned 52 this year), Amanda De Cadenet (1972, turned 52 this year), Özcan Deniz (1972, turned 52 this year), Nawazuddin Siddiqui (1974, turned 50 this year), Berenice Marlohe (1979, turned 45 this year), Sanoe Lake (1979, turned 45 this year), Drew Fuller (1980, turned 44 this year), Georges St-Pierre (1981, turned 43 this year), Isabella Ragonese (1981, turned 43 this year), Rhatha Phongam (1983, turned 41 this year), Catherine Haena Kim (1984, turned 40 this year), Jon Kortajarena (1985, turned 39 this year), Eric Lloyd (1986, turned 38 this year), Jayne Wisener (1987, turned 37 this year), Danielle Macdonald (1991, turned 33 this year), Eleanor Tomlinson (1992, turned 32 this year), Ryunosuke Kamiki (1993, turned 31 this year), Sarah Grey (1996, turned 28 this year), Michela Luci (2006, turned 18 this year)
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), Richard Foronjy (2024, at the age of 86)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.