On This Day - April 29

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Record Day

The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Day Domestic
Box Office
2018 Avengers: Infinity War Sunday $69,231,632 $678,815,482
2019 Avengers: Endgame Monday $36,874,439 $858,373,000
2011 Fast Five Friday $34,399,360 $210,031,325
2023 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Saturday $18,194,970 $574,934,330
2016 The Jungle Book Friday $10,276,873 $364,001,123
2017 The Fate of the Furious Saturday $8,983,250 $225,764,765
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Friday $7,828,025 $51,019,112
2006 R.V. Saturday $7,366,482 $71,724,497
2000 U-571 Saturday $5,964,292 $77,086,030
2023 Evil Dead Rise Saturday $5,219,548 $67,356,372

Record Opening Day

The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 29.

Year Title Day of
Week
Opening
Day
Domestic
Box Office
2011 Fast Five Friday $34,399,360 $210,031,325
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Friday $7,828,025 $51,019,112
2005 XXX: State of the Union Friday $4,179,324 $26,873,932
2016 Keanu Friday $3,443,897 $20,591,853
2016 Mother’s Day Friday $2,786,013 $32,492,859
2011 Prom Friday $1,878,515 $10,130,219
2016 Ratchet and Clank Friday $1,495,344 $8,813,410
2022 Memory Friday $1,110,563 $7,329,043
2011 Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil Friday $1,090,954 $10,143,779
2011 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night Friday $267,577 $1,186,538

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 29.

Year Title Weekend Domestic
Box Office
2018 Avengers: Infinity War $257,698,183 $678,815,482
2011 Fast Five $86,198,765 $210,031,325
2016 The Jungle Book $43,714,706 $364,001,123
2023 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $40,835,805 $574,934,330
2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy $21,103,203 $51,019,112
2017 The Fate of the Furious $19,936,540 $225,764,765
2012 Think Like a Man $17,604,141 $91,547,205
2006 R.V. $16,414,767 $71,724,497
2022 The Bad Guys $16,237,070 $97,459,240
2011 Rio $14,787,836 $143,619,809

Born and Died

Born on this day in history: Fred Zinnemann (1907, died on March 14, 1997 at the age of 89), Richard Carlson (1912, died on November 25, 1977 at the age of 65), Celeste Holm (1917, died on July 15, 2012 at the age of 95), Gérard Oury (1919, died on July 20, 2006 at the age of 87), Irvin Kershner (1923, died on November 27, 2010 at the age of 87), Hugh Hefner (1926, died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 91), Ted V. Mikels (1929, died on October 16, 2016 at the age of 87), Jean Rochefort (1930, died on October 9, 2017 at the age of 87), Willie Nelson (1933, turned 91 this year), Lane Smith (1936, turned 88 this year), Richard Kline (1944, turned 80 this year), Wayne Robson (1946, turned 78 this year), Reb Brown (1948, turned 76 this year), Phillip Noyce (1950, turned 74 this year), Ghyslain Tremblay (1951, died on April 7, 2020 at the age of 68), Nora Dunn (1952, turned 72 this year), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953, died on May 21, 2024 at the age of 71), Jerry Seinfeld (1954, turned 70 this year), Kate Mulgrew (1955, turned 69 this year), Leslie Jordan (1955, died on October 24, 2022 at the age of 67), Richard Epcar (1955, turned 69 this year), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957, turned 67 this year), Eve Plumb (1958, turned 66 this year), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958, turned 66 this year), Laura Harrington (1958, turned 66 this year), Audrey Wells (1960, died on October 4, 2018 at the age of 58), Steve Blum (1960, turned 64 this year), Walter K. Jordan (1964, died on February 6, 2019 at the age of 54), Federico Castelluccio (1964, turned 60 this year), Vincent Ventresca (1966, turned 58 this year), Paul Adelstein (1969, turned 55 this year), Uma Thurman (1970, turned 54 this year), Darby Stanchfield (1971, turned 53 this year), Fares Fares (1973, turned 51 this year), David Belle (1973, turned 51 this year), April Amber Telek (1975, turned 49 this year), Tyler Labine (1978, turned 46 this year), Bre Blair (1980, turned 44 this year), Alex Vincent (1981, turned 43 this year), Kate Nauta (1982, turned 42 this year), Megan Boone (1983, turned 41 this year), Taylor Cole (1984, turned 40 this year), Firass Dirani (1984, turned 40 this year), Bar Paly (1985, turned 39 this year), Katherine Langford (1996, turned 28 this year), Morgan Turner (1999, turned 25 this year), Michael May (1999, turned 25 this year)

Died on this day in history: Anthony Mann (1967, at the age of 60), Alfred Hitchcock (1980, at the age of 80), Raymond Bussieres (1982, at the age of 74), Mae Clarke (1992, at the age of 81), Michael Gordon (1993, at the age of 83), Bill Quinn (1994, at the age of 81), Bob Hoskins (2014, at the age of 71), John Llewellyn Moxey (2019, at the age of 94), Irrfan Khan (2020, at the age of 53), Germano Celant (2020, at the age of 79), Matty Simmons (2020, at the age of 79), Joanna Barnes (2022, at the age of 87), Mike Haggerty (2022, at the age of 67), Sergey Kolesnikov (2023, at the age of 68)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.