On This Day - July 18
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Friday | $67,165,092 | $534,235,491 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Saturday | $29,234,224 | $302,089,278 |
| 2015 | Minions | Saturday | $20,218,590 | $336,045,770 |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | Saturday | $19,464,976 | $180,202,163 |
| 2010 | Inception | Sunday | $19,211,530 | $292,576,195 |
| 2001 | Jurassic Park III | Wednesday | $19,024,360 | $181,166,115 |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II | Monday | $18,043,081 | $381,193,157 |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | Friday | $16,883,057 | $138,540,870 |
| 2004 | I, Robot | Sunday | $14,901,033 | $144,801,023 |
| 2014 | The Purge: Anarchy | Friday | $13,006,545 | $71,562,550 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Friday | $67,165,092 | $534,235,491 |
| 2001 | Jurassic Park III | Wednesday | $19,024,360 | $181,166,115 |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | Friday | $16,883,057 | $138,540,870 |
| 2014 | The Purge: Anarchy | Friday | $13,006,545 | $71,562,550 |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Friday | $9,865,440 | $144,540,088 |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire and Rescue | Friday | $6,368,061 | $59,157,732 |
| 2014 | Sex Tape | Friday | $5,670,011 | $38,543,473 |
| 1997 | Nothing To Lose | Friday | $3,756,545 | $44,480,039 |
| 2003 | Johnny English | Friday | $3,108,040 | $28,013,509 |
| 2003 | How to Deal | Friday | $2,688,000 | $14,108,518 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was July 18.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | $158,411,483 | $534,235,491 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $77,835,727 | $302,089,278 |
| 2010 | Inception | $62,785,337 | $292,576,195 |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | $57,225,526 | $180,202,163 |
| 2004 | I, Robot | $52,179,887 | $144,801,023 |
| 2015 | Minions | $49,274,730 | $336,045,770 |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | $46,522,560 | $138,540,870 |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | $36,254,310 | $208,545,589 |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | $34,034,597 | $305,410,819 |
| 2010 | Despicable Me | $32,803,660 | $252,756,705 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2025: The Smurfs Movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Hume Cronyn (1911, died on June 15, 2003 at the age of 91), Robert Ellis Miller (1927, died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 89), Burt Kwouk (1930, died on May 24, 2016 at the age of 85), Syd Mead (1933, died on December 30, 2019 at the age of 86), Edward Bond (1934, died on March 3, 2024 at the age of 89), Paul Verhoeven (1938, turned 86 this year), Manuel Tejada (1940, died on December 4, 2019 at the age of 79), James Brolin (1940, turned 84 this year), Taylor Russell (1944, turned 80 this year), James Faulkner (1948, turned 76 this year), Margo Martindale (1951, turned 73 this year), Audrey Landers (1956, turned 68 this year), Anne-Marie Johnson (1960, turned 64 this year), Elizabeth McGovern (1961, turned 63 this year), Andre Royo (1962, turned 62 this year), Lee Arenberg (1962, turned 62 this year), Jeff Burr (1963, died on October 10, 2023 at the age of 60), Lori Alan (1966, turned 58 this year), Vin Diesel (1967, turned 57 this year), Grant Bowler (1968, turned 56 this year), Alex Desert (1968, turned 56 this year), Hoon Lee (1973, turned 51 this year), Michael Dante DiMartino (1974, turned 50 this year), Elsa Pataky (1976, turned 48 this year), Valerie Cruz (1976, turned 48 this year), Kelly Reilly (1977, turned 47 this year), Luis Moncada (1977, turned 47 this year), Ji-a Park (1977, died on September 30, 2024 at the age of 47), Jared Hess (1979, turned 45 this year), Kristen Bell (1980, turned 44 this year), Michiel Huisman (1981, turned 43 this year), Priyanka Chopra (1982, turned 42 this year), James Norton (1985, turned 39 this year), Chace Crawford (1985, turned 39 this year), Ambyr Childers (1988, turned 36 this year), Fionn Whitehead (1997, turned 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Barbara Pepper (1969, at the age of 54), Jack Hawkins (1973, at the age of 62), Rebecca Schaeffer (1989, at the age of 21), Alex Rocco (2015, at the age of 79), George Coe (2015, at the age of 86), John Kerr (2016, at the age of 66), Red West (2017, at the age of 81), Warren Appleby (2019, at the age of 81), David Hedison (2019, at the age of 92), Yasuhiro Takemoto (2019, at the age of 47), Haruma Miura (2020, at the age of 30), Moonyeenn Lee (2020, at the age of 30), Martine Marignac (2022, at the age of 75), Bob Newhart (2024, at the age of 94), Lou Dobbs (2024, at the age of 78), Pei-pei Cheng (2024, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.