On This Day - May 18
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, turns 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, turns 83 this year), Gail Strickland (1945, turns 79 this year), Candice Azzara (1945, turns 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, turns 75 this year), Mark Mothersbaugh (1950, turns 74 this year), James Stephens (1951, turns 73 this year), Denny Dillon (1951, turns 73 this year), George Strait (1952, turns 72 this year), Patrick St. Esprit (1954, turns 70 this year), Chow Yun-Fat (1955, turns 69 this year), Gabor Medvigy (1957, died on August 27, 2023 at the age of 66), Nathaniel Parker (1962, turns 62 this year), Karel Roden (1962, turns 62 this year), Ashiesh Roy (1965, died on November 24, 2020 at the age of 55), Nancy Juvonen (1967, turns 57 this year), Bob Stephenson (1967, turns 57 this year), Cynthia Preston (1968, turns 56 this year), Holly Aird (1969, turns 55 this year), Tina Fey (1970, turns 54 this year), Saskia Mulder (1973, turns 51 this year), Chad Donella (1978, turns 46 this year), Jenn Gotzon (1979, turns 45 this year), Matt Long (1980, turns 44 this year), Felicia Pearson (1980, turns 44 this year), Allen Leech (1981, turns 43 this year), Javier Beltran (1983, turns 41 this year), Jona Xiao (1989, turns 35 this year), Luke Kleintank (1990, turns 34 this year), Spencer Breslin (1992, turns 32 this year), Lillian Doucet-Roche (1994, turns 30 this year), Violett Beane (1996, turns 28 this year), Teo Halm (1999, turns 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)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.