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 | $439,820,881 |
| 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 | $487,574,671 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Sunday | $18,973,867 | $155,442,489 |
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Sunday | $18,708,290 | $414,378,291 |
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 | $439,820,881 |
| 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 | $414,378,291 |
| 2015 | San Andreas | $54,588,173 | $155,190,832 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | $51,399,863 | $487,574,671 |
| 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, turned 78 this year), Nick Mancuso (1948, turned 77 this year), Cotter Smith (1949, turned 76 this year), Danny Elfman (1953, turned 72 this year), Ted Levine (1957, turned 68 this year), Juliano Mer-Khamis (1958, died on April 4, 2001 at the age of 42), Annette Bening (1958, turned 67 this year), Wayne Duvall (1958, turned 67 this year), Karen Maruyama (1958, turned 67 this year), Rupert Everett (1959, turned 66 this year), Zulay Henao (1959, turned 66 this year), Lisa Whelchel (1963, turned 62 this year), Tracey E. Bregman (1963, turned 62 this year), Diana Lee Inosanto (1966, turned 59 this year), Michole Briana White (1969, turned 56 this year), Brian Turk (1970, died on September 13, 2019 at the age of 49), Laverne Cox (1972, turned 53 this year), David Burtka (1975, turned 50 this year), Jay Paulson (1978, turned 47 this year), Zulay Henao (1979, turned 46 this year), Adam Brown (1980, turned 45 this year), Anders Holm (1981, turned 44 this year), Justin Chon (1981, turned 44 this year), Anita Briem (1982, turned 43 this year), Elyas M'Barek (1982, turned 43 this year), Alessandra Torresani (1987, turned 38 this year), Noah Reid (1987, turned 38 this year), Pearl Mackie (1987, turned 38 this year), Riley Keough (1989, turned 36 this year), Aura Garrido (1989, turned 36 this year), Brandon Mychal Smith (1989, turned 36 this year), Mathew Waters (1989, turned 36 this year), Saori Hayami (1991, turned 34 this year), Gregg Sulkin (1992, turned 33 this year), Maika Monroe (1993, turned 32 this year), Lorelei Linklater (1994, turned 31 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), Thomas Heise (2024, at the age of 68), Brian Phelan (2024, at the age of 89), Alf Clausen (2025, at the age of 84)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.