On This Day - May 24
| ← May 23 | Day Index | May 25 → |
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Saturday | $36,533,839 | $317,101,119 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Saturday | $29,283,650 | $233,921,534 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Saturday | $25,425,900 | $242,704,995 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Saturday | $24,443,450 | $229,086,679 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Sunday | $18,517,606 | $177,243,721 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | Sunday | $14,650,511 | $136,314,294 |
| 2013 | The Hangover 3 | Friday | $14,497,884 | $112,200,072 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Saturday | $14,447,596 | $281,553,689 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Wednesday | $12,516,528 | $215,409,889 |
| 2013 | Epic | Friday | $9,348,014 | $107,518,682 |
| 2002 | Insomnia | Friday | $6,034,000 | $67,263,182 |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Friday | $4,580,672 | $73,215,310 |
| 2002 | Enough | Friday | $4,512,000 | $39,177,215 |
| 2019 | BrightBurn | Friday | $3,000,854 | $17,259,427 |
| 2019 | Booksmart | Friday | $2,479,902 | $22,680,962 |
| 2019 | Echo in the Canyon | Friday | $36,338 | $3,355,266 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | $100,137,835 | $317,101,119 |
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | $97,375,245 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | $91,500,929 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | $90,823,660 | $233,921,534 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | $72,132,785 | $229,086,679 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | $67,953,330 | $242,704,995 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | $54,173,286 | $177,243,721 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $47,880,532 | $310,676,740 |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | $45,436,830 | $180,981,886 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | $44,047,541 | $136,314,294 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: The Garfield Movie, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Sight, 20,000 Species of Bees, Kidnapped, Songs of Earth, Solo
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1907, died on September 27, 1977 at the age of 70), Lilli Palmer (1914, died on January 27, 1986 at the age of 71), Peter Whitney (1916, died on March 30, 1972 at the age of 55), Seijun Suzuki (1923, died on February 13, 2017 at the age of 93), Mai Zetterling (1925, died on March 17, 1994 at the age of 68), William Trevor (1928, died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88), Jim Clark (1931, died on February 25, 2016 at the age of 84), Michael Lonsdale (1931, died on September 21, 2020 at the age of 89), Joan Micklin Silver (1935, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 85), Harold Budd (1936, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 84), Tommy Chong (1938, turns 86 this year), Bob Dylan (1941, turns 83 this year), Andres Garcia (1941, died on April 4, 2023 at the age of 81), Svetlana Bragarnik (1944, died on February 25, 2023 at the age of 78), Priscilla Presley (1945, turns 79 this year), James Cosmo (1948, turns 76 this year), Roger Deakins (1949, turns 75 this year), Jim Broadbent (1949, turns 75 this year), Jean-Pierre Bacri (1951, died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 69), Sybil Danning (1952, turns 72 this year), Alfred Molina (1953, turns 71 this year), Nell Campbell (1953, turns 71 this year), Doug Jones (1960, turns 64 this year), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960, turns 64 this year), John C. Reilly (1965, turns 59 this year), Eric Cantona (1966, turns 58 this year), Dana Ashbrook (1967, turns 57 this year), Eric Close (1967, turns 57 this year), Heavy D (1967, turns 57 this year), Julie Dretzin (1968, turns 56 this year), Greg Berlanti (1972, turns 52 this year), Dash Mihok (1974, turns 50 this year), Thorbjørn Harr (1974, turns 50 this year), Will Sasso (1975, turns 49 this year), Synnøve Macody Lund (1976, turns 48 this year), Johannes Roberts (1976, turns 48 this year), Bryan Greenberg (1978, turns 46 this year), Jerod Mixon (1981, turns 43 this year), Ricky Mabe (1983, turns 41 this year), Sarah Hagan (1984, turns 40 this year), Deborah Francois (1987, turns 37 this year), Callie Hernandez (1988, turns 36 this year), Brianne Howey (1989, turns 35 this year), Kimberly Crossman (1990, turns 34 this year), Bobby Lockwood (1993, turns 31 this year), Cayden Boyd (1994, turns 30 this year), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998, turns 26 this year), Charlie Plummer (1999, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Paul Birch (1969, at the age of 57), Dick Martin (2008, at the age of 86), Lee Rich (2012, at the age of 93), Buck Kartalian (2016, at the age of 93), Burt Kwouk (2016, at the age of 85), Jared Martin (2017, at the age of 75), Bert Kish (2017, at the age of 51), Jean-Loup Dabadie (2020, at the age of 81), Jimmy Cobb (2020, at the age of 91), Samuel E. Wright (2021, at the age of 74), Robert Hall (2021, at the age of 47), Kenneth Anger (2023, at the age of 96), Tina Turner (2023, at the age of 83)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.