On This Day - July 19
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on July 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Lion King | Friday | $77,930,758 | $543,638,043 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Saturday | $47,650,240 | $534,235,491 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | Sunday | $21,780,931 | $302,089,278 |
| 2013 | The Conjuring | Friday | $16,956,117 | $137,400,141 |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | Saturday | $16,203,568 | $138,540,870 |
| 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II | Tuesday | $15,388,166 | $381,193,157 |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | Sunday | $15,111,351 | $180,202,163 |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Saturday | $14,774,045 | $208,545,589 |
| 2015 | Minions | Sunday | $14,484,960 | $336,045,770 |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Saturday | $13,095,414 | $305,410,819 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on July 19.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Lion King | Friday | $77,930,758 | $543,638,043 |
| 2002 | Stuart Little 2 | Friday | $5,314,000 | $64,956,806 |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Friday | $4,023,000 | $35,168,966 |
| 2000 | The In Crowd | Wednesday | $662,495 | $5,217,498 |
| 2013 | Girl Most Likely | Friday | $225,750 | $1,378,591 |
| 2023 | Terrifier | Wednesday | $137,520 | $339,946 |
| 2023 | Go West | Wednesday | $35,118 | $340,017 |
| 2019 | Rosie | Friday | $686 | $6,839 |
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 19.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Lion King | $191,770,759 | $543,638,043 |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | $158,411,483 | $534,235,491 |
| 2009 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $77,835,727 | $302,089,278 |
| 2015 | Ant-Man | $57,225,526 | $180,202,163 |
| 2015 | Minions | $49,274,730 | $336,045,770 |
| 2003 | Bad Boys II | $46,522,560 | $138,540,870 |
| 2013 | The Conjuring | $41,855,326 | $137,400,141 |
| 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 |
| 2015 | Trainwreck | $30,097,040 | $110,212,700 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Twisters, Widow Clicquot, Crossing
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Barbara Bedford (1903, died on October 25, 1981 at the age of 78), Patricia Medina (1919, died on April 28, 2012 at the age of 92), Pat Hingle (1924, died on January 3, 2009 at the age of 84), Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924, died on January 30, 2014 at the age of 89), Luigi Pistilli (1929, died on April 21, 1996 at the age of 66), Richard Jordan (1937, turns 87 this year), Sergio Martino (1938, turns 86 this year), Dennis Cole (1940, died on November 15, 2009 at the age of 69), Tim McIntire (1944, died on April 15, 1986 at the age of 41), George Dzundza (1945, turns 79 this year), Brian May (1947, turns 77 this year), Richard Cordery (1950, turns 74 this year), Tom McLoughlin (1950, turns 74 this year), Danny Hicks (1951, died on June 30, 2020 at the age of 68), Abel Ferrara (1951, turns 73 this year), Daniel Zacapa (1951, turns 73 this year), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955, turns 69 this year), Peter Barton (1956, turns 68 this year), Norman Howell (1957, turns 67 this year), Mark Holton (1958, turns 66 this year), Juan Jose Campanella (1959, turns 65 this year), Atom Egoyan (1960, turns 64 this year), Campbell Scott (1961, turns 63 this year), Robbi Morgan (1961, turns 63 this year), Lisa Lampanelli (1961, turns 63 this year), Hideo Nakata (1961, turns 63 this year), Anthony Edwards (1962, turns 62 this year), Peter Dobson (1964, turns 60 this year), Clea Lewis (1965, turns 59 this year), Nancy Carell (1966, turns 58 this year), William Houston (1968, turns 56 this year), Jim Norton (1968, turns 56 this year), Matthew Libatique (1968, turns 56 this year), Bodhi Elfman (1969, turns 55 this year), Camille Cooper (1969, turns 55 this year), Andrew Kavovit (1971, turns 53 this year), Said Taghmaoui (1973, turns 51 this year), Nathalie Boltt (1973, turns 51 this year), Ramin Djawadi (1974, turns 50 this year), Reuben Langdon (1975, turns 49 this year), Benedict Cumberbatch (1976, turns 48 this year), Vinessa Shaw (1976, turns 48 this year), Erin Cummings (1977, turns 47 this year), Darron Meyer (1977, turns 47 this year), Chiara Zanni (1978, turns 46 this year), Ginifer King (1978, turns 46 this year), David Sakurai (1979, turns 45 this year), Mark Webber (1980, turns 44 this year), Josh Fadem (1980, turns 44 this year), Chris Sullivan (1980, turns 44 this year), Angela Trimbur (1981, turns 43 this year), Adam Nee (1981, turns 43 this year), Jared Padalecki (1982, turns 42 this year), Tonya Glanz (1982, turns 42 this year), Ryan Dorsey (1983, turns 41 this year), Trai Byers (1983, turns 41 this year), Kaitlin Doubleday (1984, turns 40 this year), Andrea Libman (1984, turns 40 this year), Zhu Zhu (1984, turns 40 this year), Cherami Leigh (1988, turns 36 this year), Shane Dawson (1988, turns 36 this year), Steven Anthony Lawrence (1990, turns 34 this year), Jeannie Tirado (1990, turns 34 this year), Zachary David Cope (1994, turns 30 this year), Cheyenne Haynes (1995, turns 29 this year), Hale Lytle (2001, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Joe Flynn (1974, at the age of 49), Edward Bunker (2005, at the age of 71), Jack Warden (2006, at the age of 85), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), James Garner (2014, at the age of 86), Douglas S. Cook (2015, at the age of 86), Garry Marshall (2016, at the age of 81), Michael Howells (2018, at the age of 61), Jon Schnepp (2018, at the age of 51), Jeremy Kemp (2019, at the age of 84), Rutger Hauer (2019, at the age of 75)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.