On This Day - May 18
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Friday | $53,034,421 | $324,591,735 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Friday | $38,426,991 | $322,719,944 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | Saturday | $31,253,618 | $310,676,740 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Saturday | $26,947,822 | $228,778,661 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Sunday | $26,054,783 | $281,553,689 |
| 2014 | Godzilla | Sunday | $22,617,414 | $200,676,069 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Saturday | $20,012,686 | $404,652,858 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum | Saturday | $19,613,248 | $171,016,727 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Saturday | $15,425,978 | $408,992,272 |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Sunday | $15,240,939 | $141,621,490 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 18.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Friday | $53,034,421 | $324,591,735 |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | Friday | $38,426,991 | $322,719,944 |
| 2001 | Shrek | Friday | $11,541,000 | $268,028,651 |
| 2012 | Battleship | Friday | $8,782,225 | $65,233,400 |
| 2018 | Book Club | Friday | $4,785,260 | $68,566,296 |
| 2012 | What to Expect When You're Expecting | Friday | $3,848,774 | $41,152,203 |
| 2001 | Angel Eyes | Friday | $3,164,500 | $24,044,532 |
| 2018 | Show Dogs | Friday | $1,413,979 | $17,744,685 |
| 2018 | Pope Francis—A Man of His Word | Friday | $176,460 | $2,008,385 |
| 2012 | Crooked Arrows | Friday | $119,559 | $1,832,541 |
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 18.
| 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 |
| 2014 | Godzilla | $93,188,384 | $200,676,069 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | $91,774,413 | $281,553,689 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $80,027,814 | $310,676,740 |
| 2013 | Star Trek Into Darkness | $70,165,559 | $228,778,661 |
| 2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum | $56,818,067 | $171,016,727 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | $55,644,102 | $623,357,910 |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | $55,034,805 | $141,621,490 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $45,036,912 | $404,652,858 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Frank Capra (1897, died on September 3, 1991 at the age of 94), Richard Brooks (1912, died on March 11, 1992 at the age of 79), Robert J. Wilke (1914, died on March 28, 1989 at the age of 74), James Donald (1917, died on August 3, 1993 at the age of 76), Bill Macy (1922, died on October 17, 2019 at the age of 97), Priscilla Pointer (1924, turned 100 this year), Martin Bregman (1926, died on June 16, 2018 at the age of 92), Arthur Wooster (1929, died on September 1, 2020 at the age of 91), Robert Morse (1931, died on April 20, 2022 at the age of 90), George Shapiro (1931, died on May 26, 2022 at the age of 91), Dwayne Hickman (1934, died on January 9, 2022 at the age of 87), Miriam Margolyes (1941, turned 83 this year), Gail Strickland (1945, turned 79 this year), Candice Azzara (1945, turned 79 this year), Andreas Katsulas (1946, died on February 13, 2006 at the age of 59), Hugh Keays-Byrne (1947, died on December 1, 2020 at the age of 73), Terry Zwigoff (1949, turned 75 this year), Mark Mothersbaugh (1950, turned 74 this year), James Stephens (1951, turned 73 this year), Denny Dillon (1951, turned 73 this year), George Strait (1952, turned 72 this year), Patrick St. Esprit (1954, turned 70 this year), Chow Yun-Fat (1955, turned 69 this year), Gabor Medvigy (1957, died on August 27, 2023 at the age of 66), Nathaniel Parker (1962, turned 62 this year), Karel Roden (1962, turned 62 this year), Ashiesh Roy (1965, died on November 24, 2020 at the age of 55), Nancy Juvonen (1967, turned 57 this year), Bob Stephenson (1967, turned 57 this year), Cynthia Preston (1968, turned 56 this year), Holly Aird (1969, turned 55 this year), Tina Fey (1970, turned 54 this year), Saskia Mulder (1973, turned 51 this year), Chad Donella (1978, turned 46 this year), Jenn Gotzon (1979, turned 45 this year), Matt Long (1980, turned 44 this year), Felicia Pearson (1980, turned 44 this year), Allen Leech (1981, turned 43 this year), Javier Beltran (1983, turned 41 this year), Jona Xiao (1989, turned 35 this year), Luke Kleintank (1990, turned 34 this year), Spencer Breslin (1992, turned 32 this year), Lillian Doucet-Roche (1994, turned 30 this year), Violett Beane (1996, turned 28 this year), Teo Halm (1999, turned 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Arthur O'Connell (1981, at the age of 73), Marshall Thompson (1992, at the age of 66), Elizabeth Montgomery (1995, at the age of 62), Joseph Pevney (2008, at the age of 96), Wayne Allwine (2009, at the age of 62), Arthur Malet (2013, at the age of 85), Steve Forrest (2013, at the age of 87), Helen Miller (2017, at the age of 93), John Mahon (2020, at the age of 93), Charles Grodin (2021, at the age of 86), Roy Scammel (2021, at the age of 88), Helmut Berger (2023, at the age of 78), Jonathan Wysocki (2024, at the age of 78), Alice Stewart (2024, at the age of 58), Toni Venturi (2024, at the age of 68), Fred Roos (2024, at the age of 89)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.