On This Day - March 19
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on March 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Sunday | $48,266,365 | $504,014,165 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Saturday | $16,233,914 | $341,268,248 |
| 2022 | The Batman | Saturday | $16,004,510 | $369,345,583 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Saturday | $13,102,145 | $75,941,727 |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | Friday | $10,900,000 | $58,990,765 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Saturday | $10,700,938 | $66,184,051 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Friday | $9,815,632 | $334,191,110 |
| 2005 | Robots | Saturday | $9,404,528 | $128,200,012 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Sunday | $8,282,134 | $168,052,812 |
| 2010 | The Bounty Hunter | Friday | $7,641,747 | $67,061,228 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on March 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | Friday | $10,900,000 | $58,990,765 |
| 2010 | The Bounty Hunter | Friday | $7,641,747 | $67,061,228 |
| 2010 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Friday | $7,375,022 | $64,003,625 |
| 1999 | Forces of Nature | Friday | $4,850,000 | $52,957,800 |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Friday | $4,200,000 | $32,682,342 |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Friday | $2,700,000 | $34,366,518 |
| 2010 | Repo Men | Friday | $2,168,125 | $13,942,007 |
| 1999 | True Crime | Friday | $1,605,000 | $16,676,845 |
| 1999 | The King and I | Friday | $1,110,000 | $12,064,440 |
| 2021 | Ironbark | Friday | $671,968 | $6,613,432 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was March 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | $174,750,616 | $504,014,165 |
| 2016 | Zootopia | $37,164,158 | $341,268,248 |
| 2022 | The Batman | $36,723,197 | $369,345,583 |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | $35,065,237 | $75,941,727 |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | $34,189,969 | $334,191,110 |
| 2023 | Shazam! Fury of the Gods | $30,111,158 | $57,721,819 |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | $29,027,348 | $66,184,051 |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | $28,138,465 | $125,548,685 |
| 2017 | Kong: Skull Island | $27,832,142 | $168,052,812 |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | $26,722,575 | $58,990,765 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2027: Untitled Illumination Event Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Roy Roberts (1906, died on May 28, 1975 at the age of 69), Kent Smith (1907, died on April 23, 1985 at the age of 78), Eric Christmas (1916, died on July 22, 2000 at the age of 84), Giuseppe Rotunno (1923, died on February 7, 2021 at the age of 97), Bill Henderson (1926, died on April 3, 2016 at the age of 90), Patrick McGoohan (1928, died on January 13, 2009 at the age of 80), Philip Roth (1933, died on May 22, 2018 at the age of 85), Phyllis Newman (1933, died on September 15, 2019 at the age of 86), Richard Williams (1933, died on August 16, 2019 at the age of 86), Renee Taylor (1933, turned 91 this year), Ursula Andress (1936, turned 88 this year), Maurice Roeves (1937, died on July 15, 2020 at the age of 83), Michael Koskoff (1942, died on April 24, 2019 at the age of 77), Glenn Close (1947, turned 77 this year), Dermot Crowley (1947, turned 77 this year), Harvey Weinstein (1952, turned 72 this year), Bruce Willis (1955, turned 69 this year), Fred Stoller (1958, turned 66 this year), Neil LaBute (1963, turned 61 this year), Jake Weber (1964, turned 60 this year), Marjorie Monaghan (1964, turned 60 this year), Lisa Stahl (1965, turned 59 this year), Connor Trinneer (1969, turned 55 this year), Vida Guerra (1974, turned 50 this year), Vivian Hsu (1975, turned 49 this year), Matthew Leitch (1975, turned 49 this year), Rachel Blanchard (1976, turned 48 this year), Nicholas Stoller (1976, turned 48 this year), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (1977, turned 47 this year), Jorma Taccone (1977, turned 47 this year), Virginia Williams (1978, turned 46 this year), Abby Brammell (1979, turned 45 this year), Theo Von (1980, turned 44 this year), Dan Levy (1981, turned 43 this year), Nick Hendrix (1985, turned 39 this year), Michael Drayer (1986, turned 38 this year), Josie Loren (1987, turned 37 this year), Philip Daniel Bolden (1995, turned 29 this year), Caylee Cowan (1998, turned 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Edward Platt (1974, at the age of 58), Alan Badel (1982, at the age of 58), Paul Scofield (2008, at the age of 86), Alan Hopgood (2022, at the age of 87), M. Emmet Walsh (2024, at the age of 88)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.