On This Day - April 27
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Saturday | $109,264,122 | $858,373,000 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Friday | $106,334,939 | $678,815,482 |
| 2002 | The Scorpion King | Saturday | $7,846,000 | $90,580,000 |
| 2013 | Oblivion | Saturday | $7,811,520 | $89,107,235 |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | Saturday | $7,342,078 | $49,875,291 |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | Sunday | $5,811,624 | $83,911,193 |
| 2012 | Think Like a Man | Friday | $5,497,935 | $91,547,205 |
| 2013 | 42 | Saturday | $4,837,284 | $95,020,213 |
| 2001 | Driven | Friday | $4,529,000 | $32,616,869 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Sunday | $4,485,096 | $259,746,958 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Friday | $106,334,939 | $678,815,482 |
| 2001 | Driven | Friday | $4,529,000 | $32,616,869 |
| 2012 | The Five-Year Engagement | Friday | $3,478,500 | $28,700,285 |
| 2007 | The Invisible | Friday | $3,024,275 | $20,568,319 |
| 2012 | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Friday | $2,749,959 | $31,051,126 |
| 2012 | Safe | Friday | $2,620,179 | $17,142,080 |
| 2012 | The Raven | Friday | $2,526,313 | $16,008,272 |
| 2007 | Next | Friday | $2,378,521 | $18,211,013 |
| 2007 | The Condemned | Friday | $1,333,622 | $7,371,706 |
| 2001 | The Forsaken | Friday | $1,015,500 | $6,755,271 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was April 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $357,115,007 | $858,373,000 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $257,698,183 | $678,815,482 |
| 2014 | The Other Woman | $24,763,752 | $83,911,193 |
| 2013 | Pain & Gain | $20,244,505 | $49,875,291 |
| 2002 | The Scorpion King | $18,038,270 | $90,580,000 |
| 2013 | Oblivion | $17,803,425 | $89,107,235 |
| 2012 | Think Like a Man | $17,604,141 | $91,547,205 |
| 2008 | Baby Mama | $17,407,110 | $60,494,212 |
| 2003 | Identity | $16,225,263 | $52,131,264 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | $16,219,025 | $259,746,958 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Zohra Sehgal (1912, died on July 10, 2014 at the age of 102), Jack Klugman (1922, died on December 24, 2012 at the age of 90), Tim LaHaye (1926, died on July 25, 2016 at the age of 90), Wieslaw Zdort (1931, died on January 14, 2019 at the age of 87), Anouk Aimee (1932, turns 92 today), Casey Kasem (1932, died on June 15, 2014 at the age of 82), Theodoros Angelopoulos (1935, died on January 24, 2012 at the age of 76), Sandy Dennis (1937, died on March 2, 1992 at the age of 54), Ryszard Bugajski (1943, died on June 7, 2019 at the age of 76), Lew Dauber (1949, died on October 3, 2019 at the age of 70), Ace Frehley (1951, turns 73 today), Arielle Dombasle (1953, turns 71 today), John Cygan (1954, died on May 13, 2017 at the age of 63), Mark Holden (1954, turns 70 today), Kevin McNally (1956, turns 68 today), Sheena Easton (1959, turns 65 today), Neil Pearson (1959, turns 65 today), Steve Bean (1960, died on January 21, 2019 at the age of 58), Eugenie Bondurant (1961, turns 63 today), Im Sang-soo (1962, turns 62 today), James LeGros (1962, turns 62 today), Anna Chancellor (1965, turns 59 today), Matt Reeves (1966, turns 58 today), Erik Thomson (1967, turns 57 today), Sheryl Lee (1967, turns 57 today), David Lascher (1972, turns 52 today), Sally Hawkins (1976, turns 48 today), Ari Graynor (1983, turns 41 today), Francis Capra (1983, turns 41 today), Sheila Vand (1985, turns 39 today), Jenna Coleman (1986, turns 38 today), William Moseley (1987, turns 37 today), Emily Rios (1989, turns 35 today)
Died on this day in history: Roy Del Ruth (1961, at the age of 67), Arthur Shields (1970, at the age of 74), Stanley Adams (1977, at the age of 62), Tom Tully (1982, at the age of 73), Paul Lambert (1997, at the age of 74), Marian Mercer (2011, at the age of 75), Andrew Lesnie (2015, at the age of 58), James Carroll (2016, at the age of 59), Vinod Khanna (2017, at the age of 70), Paul Junger Witt (2018, at the age of 77), Cis Corman (2020, at the age of 77), Kenneth Tsang (2022, at the age of 86), Jossara Jinaro (2022, at the age of 48), Giovanni Lombardo Radice (2023, at the age of 68), Jerry Springer (2023, at the age of 79), Barbara Young (2023, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.