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 | $536,625,724 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Saturday | $29,234,224 | $302,854,063 |
| 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 | $293,662,683 |
| 2001 | Jurassic Park III | Wednesday | $19,024,360 | $181,166,115 |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II | Monday | $18,043,081 | $382,088,758 |
| 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 | $536,625,724 |
| 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 | $536,625,724 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $77,835,727 | $302,854,063 |
| 2010 | Inception | $62,785,337 | $293,662,683 |
| 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: Saint Clare, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Finally Dawn, Unicorns, Eddington, Life After, Cloud, Guns & Moses, Shari & Lamb Chop, The Banished, Sink Your Teeth: A Tokyo Ghoul Celebration, A Cool Fish 2, No Sleep Till, Year of the Fox, Smurfs
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, turns 87 this year), Manuel Tejada (1940, died on December 4, 2019 at the age of 79), James Brolin (1940, turns 85 this year), Taylor Russell (1944, turns 81 this year), James Faulkner (1948, turns 77 this year), Margo Martindale (1951, turns 74 this year), Audrey Landers (1956, turns 69 this year), Anne-Marie Johnson (1960, turns 65 this year), Elizabeth McGovern (1961, turns 64 this year), Andre Royo (1962, turns 63 this year), Lee Arenberg (1962, turns 63 this year), Jeff Burr (1963, died on October 10, 2023 at the age of 60), Lori Alan (1966, turns 59 this year), Vin Diesel (1967, turns 58 this year), Grant Bowler (1968, turns 57 this year), Alex Desert (1968, turns 57 this year), Hoon Lee (1973, turns 52 this year), Michael Dante DiMartino (1974, turns 51 this year), Elsa Pataky (1976, turns 49 this year), Valerie Cruz (1976, turns 49 this year), Kelly Reilly (1977, turns 48 this year), Luis Moncada (1977, turns 48 this year), Ji-a Park (1977, died on September 30, 2024 at the age of 47), Jared Hess (1979, turns 46 this year), Kristen Bell (1980, turns 45 this year), Michiel Huisman (1981, turns 44 this year), Priyanka Chopra (1982, turns 43 this year), James Norton (1985, turns 40 this year), Chace Crawford (1985, turns 40 this year), Ambyr Childers (1988, turns 37 this year), Fionn Whitehead (1997, turns 28 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.