On This Day - July 19

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King Friday $77,930,758 $543,638,043
2008 The Dark Knight Saturday $47,650,240 $536,625,724
2024 Twisters Friday $32,139,880 $267,762,265
2025 Superman Saturday $23,026,404 $354,223,803
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Sunday $21,780,931 $302,854,063
2013 The Conjuring Friday $16,956,117 $137,400,141
2003 Bad Boys II Saturday $16,203,568 $138,540,870
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II Tuesday $15,388,166 $382,747,509
2015 Ant-Man Sunday $15,111,351 $180,202,163
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Saturday $14,774,045 $208,545,589

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 19.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King Friday $77,930,758 $543,638,043
2024 Twisters Friday $32,139,880 $267,762,265
2002 Stuart Little 2 Friday $5,314,000 $64,956,806
2002 K-19: The Widowmaker Friday $4,023,000 $35,168,966
2000 The In Crowd Wednesday $662,495 $5,217,498
2013 Girl Most Likely Friday $225,750 $1,378,591
2024 Oddity Friday $194,344 $1,200,477
2023 Terrifier Wednesday $137,520 $339,946
2024 Widow Clicquot Friday $69,264 $1,023,984
2023 Go West Wednesday $35,118 $340,017

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 19.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2019 The Lion King $191,770,759 $543,638,043
2008 The Dark Knight $158,411,483 $536,625,724
2024 Twisters $81,251,415 $267,762,265
2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $77,835,727 $302,854,063
2025 Superman $58,450,094 $354,223,803
2015 Ant-Man $57,225,526 $180,202,163
2015 Minions $49,274,730 $336,045,770
2003 Bad Boys II $46,522,560 $138,540,870
2013 The Conjuring $41,855,326 $137,400,141
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes $36,254,310 $208,545,589

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Barbara Bedford (1903, died on October 25, 1981 at the age of 78), Patricia Medina (1919, died on April 28, 2012 at the age of 92), Pat Hingle (1924, died on January 3, 2009 at the age of 84), Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924, died on January 30, 2014 at the age of 89), Luigi Pistilli (1929, died on April 21, 1996 at the age of 66), Richard Jordan (1937, turns 89 this year), Sergio Martino (1938, turns 88 this year), Dennis Cole (1940, died on November 15, 2009 at the age of 69), Charles Scalies (1940, died on May 1, 2025 at the age of 84), Tim McIntire (1944, died on April 15, 1986 at the age of 41), George Dzundza (1945, turns 81 this year), Brian May (1947, turns 79 this year), Richard Cordery (1950, turns 76 this year), Tom McLoughlin (1950, turns 76 this year), Danny Hicks (1951, died on June 30, 2020 at the age of 68), Abel Ferrara (1951, turns 75 this year), Daniel Zacapa (1951, turns 75 this year), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955, turns 71 this year), Peter Barton (1956, turns 70 this year), Norman Howell (1957, turns 69 this year), Mark Holton (1958, turns 68 this year), Juan Jose Campanella (1959, turns 67 this year), Atom Egoyan (1960, turns 66 this year), Campbell Scott (1961, turns 65 this year), Robbi Morgan (1961, turns 65 this year), Lisa Lampanelli (1961, turns 65 this year), Hideo Nakata (1961, turns 65 this year), Anthony Edwards (1962, turns 64 this year), Peter Dobson (1964, turns 62 this year), Clea Lewis (1965, turns 61 this year), Nancy Carell (1966, turns 60 this year), William Houston (1968, turns 58 this year), Jim Norton (1968, turns 58 this year), Matthew Libatique (1968, turns 58 this year), Bodhi Elfman (1969, turns 57 this year), Camille Cooper (1969, turns 57 this year), Andrew Kavovit (1971, turns 55 this year), Said Taghmaoui (1973, turns 53 this year), Nathalie Boltt (1973, turns 53 this year), Ramin Djawadi (1974, turns 52 this year), Reuben Langdon (1975, turns 51 this year), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976, turns 50 this year), Vinessa Shaw (1976, turns 50 this year), Erin Cummings (1977, turns 49 this year), Darron Meyer (1977, turns 49 this year), Chiara Zanni (1978, turns 48 this year), Ginifer King (1978, turns 48 this year), David Sakurai (1979, turns 47 this year), Mark Webber (1980, turns 46 this year), Josh Fadem (1980, turns 46 this year), Chris Sullivan (1980, turns 46 this year), Angela Trimbur (1981, turns 45 this year), Adam Nee (1981, turns 45 this year), Jared Padalecki (1982, turns 44 this year), Tonya Glanz (1982, turns 44 this year), Ryan Dorsey (1983, turns 43 this year), Trai Byers (1983, turns 43 this year), Kaitlin Doubleday (1984, turns 42 this year), Andrea Libman (1984, turns 42 this year), Zhu Zhu (1984, turns 42 this year), Cherami Leigh (1988, turns 38 this year), Shane Dawson (1988, turns 38 this year), Steven Anthony Lawrence (1990, turns 36 this year), Jeannie Tirado (1990, turns 36 this year), Zachary David Cope (1994, turns 32 this year), Cheyenne Haynes (1995, turns 31 this year), Hale Lytle (2001, turns 25 this year)

Died on this day in history: Joe Flynn (1974, at the age of 49), Edward Bunker (2005, at the age of 71), Jack Warden (2006, at the age of 85), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), Douglas S. Cook (2015, at the age of 86), Garry Marshall (2016, at the age of 81), Michael Howells (2018, at the age of 61), Jon Schnepp (2018, at the age of 51), Jeremy Kemp (2019, at the age of 84), Rutger Hauer (2019, at the age of 75)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.