On This Day - May 29
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 29.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Sunday | $36,677,097 | $718,732,821 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Saturday | $27,235,110 | $441,426,807 |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II | Sunday | $26,274,106 | $254,464,305 |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Saturday | $23,789,623 | $186,740,799 |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Monday | $23,240,863 | $298,172,056 |
| 2009 | Up | Friday | $21,481,834 | $293,004,164 |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Monday | $20,110,492 | $234,362,462 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Saturday | $19,330,780 | $474,544,677 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Sunday | $18,973,867 | $155,442,489 |
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Sunday | $18,708,290 | $380,270,577 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 29.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Up | Friday | $21,481,834 | $293,004,164 |
| 2015 | San Andreas | Friday | $18,148,048 | $155,190,832 |
| 2009 | Drag Me To Hell | Friday | $6,407,940 | $42,100,625 |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Friday | $4,770,000 | $60,110,313 |
| 2015 | Aloha | Friday | $3,487,631 | $21,052,030 |
| 1998 | Almost Heroes | Friday | $905,000 | $6,175,688 |
| 2015 | Gemma Bovery | Friday | $5,300 | $425,080 |
| 2015 | Heaven Knows What | Friday | $4,801 | $80,312 |
| 2019 | Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank | Wednesday | $1,645 | $27,073 |
| 2009 | What Goes Up | Friday | $1,601 | $5,290 |
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 29.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | $126,707,459 | $718,732,821 |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II | $85,946,294 | $254,464,305 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | $72,170,363 | $441,426,807 |
| 2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | $68,743,584 | $186,740,799 |
| 2009 | Up | $68,108,790 | $293,004,164 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | $65,769,562 | $155,442,489 |
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | $55,205,972 | $380,270,577 |
| 2015 | San Andreas | $54,588,173 | $155,190,832 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | $51,399,863 | $474,544,677 |
| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $47,656,302 | $165,249,063 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled DC Film
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Bob Hope (1903, died on July 27, 2003 at the age of 100), Sebastian Shaw (1905, died on December 23, 1994 at the age of 89), Clifton James (1920, died on April 15, 2017 at the age of 96), Marina Cicogna (1934, died on November 4, 2023 at the age of 89), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936, died on February 4, 2019 at the age of 82), Al Unser (1939, died on December 9, 2021 at the age of 82), Kevin Conway (1942, died on February 5, 2020 at the age of 77), Helmut Berger (1944, died on May 18, 2023 at the age of 78), Anthony Geary (1947, turns 77 this year), Nick Mancuso (1948, turns 76 this year), Cotter Smith (1949, turns 75 this year), Ted Levine (1957, turns 67 this year), Juliano Mer-Khamis (1958, died on April 4, 2001 at the age of 42), Annette Bening (1958, turns 66 this year), Wayne Duvall (1958, turns 66 this year), Karen Maruyama (1958, turns 66 this year), Rupert Everett (1959, turns 65 this year), Zulay Henao (1959, turns 65 this year), Danny Elfman (1963, turns 61 this year), Lisa Whelchel (1963, turns 61 this year), Tracey E. Bregman (1963, turns 61 this year), Diana Lee Inosanto (1966, turns 58 this year), Michole Briana White (1969, turns 55 this year), Brian Turk (1970, died on September 13, 2019 at the age of 49), Laverne Cox (1972, turns 52 this year), David Burtka (1975, turns 49 this year), Jay Paulson (1978, turns 46 this year), Zulay Henao (1979, turns 45 this year), Adam Brown (1980, turns 44 this year), Anders Holm (1981, turns 43 this year), Justin Chon (1981, turns 43 this year), Anita Briem (1982, turns 42 this year), Elyas M'Barek (1982, turns 42 this year), Alessandra Torresani (1987, turns 37 this year), Noah Reid (1987, turns 37 this year), Pearl Mackie (1987, turns 37 this year), Riley Keough (1989, turns 35 this year), Aura Garrido (1989, turns 35 this year), Brandon Mychal Smith (1989, turns 35 this year), Mathew Waters (1989, turns 35 this year), Saori Hayami (1991, turns 33 this year), Gregg Sulkin (1992, turns 32 this year), Maika Monroe (1993, turns 31 this year), Lorelei Linklater (1994, turns 30 this year)
Died on this day in history: John Barrymore (1942, at the age of 60), James Whale (1957, at the age of 57), Mary Pickford (1979, at the age of 87), Romy Schneider (1982, at the age of 43), Harvey Korman (2008, at the age of 81), Kaneto Shindo (2012, at the age of 100), Betsy Palmer (2015, at the age of 88), Kenne Fant (2016, at the age of 93), Gavin MacLeod (2021, at the age of 90), John Gregg (2021, at the age of 82), Ronnie Hawkins (2022, at the age of 87), Michel Cote (2023, at the age of 72), Peter Simonischek (2023, at the age of 76), Mac Gudgeon (2023, at the age of 74)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.