On This Day - May 3
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Friday | $68,858,555 | $408,992,272 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Sunday | $50,319,942 | $459,005,868 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Friday | $40,736,774 | $858,373,000 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Friday | $39,406,872 | $404,652,858 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Saturday | $37,350,099 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Saturday | $33,161,137 | $203,530,343 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | Saturday | $32,000,629 | $214,949,694 |
| 2025 | Thunderbolts* | Saturday | $24,683,098 | $189,935,226 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Sunday | $21,300,461 | $179,883,157 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Thursday | $15,501,270 | $678,815,482 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Friday | $68,858,555 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Friday | $39,406,872 | $404,652,858 |
| 2024 | The Fall Guy | Friday | $10,479,125 | $92,900,355 |
| 2019 | The Intruder | Friday | $3,940,875 | $35,388,976 |
| 2019 | Long Shot | Friday | $3,645,044 | $30,316,271 |
| 2024 | Tarot | Friday | $2,550,578 | $18,771,004 |
| 2019 | UglyDolls | Friday | $2,496,875 | $20,150,241 |
| 2002 | Deuces Wild | Friday | $988,500 | $6,044,618 |
| 2002 | Hollywood Ending | Friday | $661,000 | $4,839,383 |
| 2019 | El Chicano | Friday | $236,402 | $1,400,603 |
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 3.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $191,271,109 | $459,005,868 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $174,144,585 | $408,992,272 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $147,383,211 | $858,373,000 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $114,844,116 | $404,652,858 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | $102,118,668 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | $91,608,337 | $203,530,343 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | $85,558,731 | $214,949,694 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | $85,058,003 | $179,883,157 |
| 2025 | Thunderbolts* | $74,300,608 | $189,935,226 |
| 2025 | Sinners | $33,102,310 | $278,499,704 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Beulah Bondi (1889, died on January 11, 1981 at the age of 91), Walter Slezak (1902, died on April 21, 1983 at the age of 80), Bing Crosby (1903, died on October 14, 1977 at the age of 74), Mary Astor (1906, died on September 25, 1987 at the age of 81), George Gaynes (1917, died on February 15, 2016 at the age of 98), Pete Seeger (1919, died on January 27, 2014 at the age of 94), Lois de Banzie (1930, died on April 3, 2021 at the age of 90), Robert Osborne (1932, died on March 6, 2017 at the age of 84), James Brown (1933, died on December 25, 2006 at the age of 73), Alex Cord (1933, died on August 9, 2021 at the age of 88), Frankie Valli (1934, turned 91 this year), David Siegal (1935, died on April 5, 2025 at the age of 89), Jayant Sawarkar (1936, died on July 24, 2023 at the age of 87), Greg Gumbel (1946, died on December 27, 2024 at the age of 78), Chris Mulkey (1948, turned 77 this year), Ron Canada (1949, turned 76 this year), Peter Guinness (1950, turned 75 this year), Pia Zadora (1953, turned 72 this year), Debra De Liso (1955, turned 70 this year), Kevin Kilner (1958, turned 67 this year), Ben Elton (1959, turned 66 this year), Amy Steel (1960, turned 65 this year), Mark Cousins (1965, turned 60 this year), Rob Brydon (1965, turned 60 this year), Kenny Hotz (1967, turned 58 this year), Amy Ryan (1968, turned 57 this year), Bobby Cannavale (1970, turned 55 this year), Kristin Lehman (1972, turned 53 this year), Jennifer Tung (1973, turned 52 this year), Joseph Kosinski (1974, turned 51 this year), Christina Hendricks (1975, turned 50 this year), Dule Hill (1975, turned 50 this year), Emily V. Gordon (1979, turned 46 this year), Mozhan Marno (1980, turned 45 this year), Rebecca Hall (1982, turned 43 this year), Danila Kozlovsky (1985, turned 40 this year), Meagan Tandy (1985, turned 40 this year), Pom Klementieff (1986, turned 39 this year), Dominique McElligott (1986, turned 39 this year), James Frecheville (1991, turned 34 this year), Alexandra Vino (1993, turned 32 this year), Jessica Sula (1994, turned 31 this year), Zoé De Grand Maison (1995, turned 30 this year), Anna Rust (1995, turned 30 this year), Noah Munck (1996, turned 29 this year), Rachel Zegler (2001, turned 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Tom Tyler (1954, at the age of 50), Karl Freund (1969, at the age of 79), Jerzy Kosinski (1991, at the age of 57), George Murphy (1992, at the age of 89), Jack Weston (1996, at the age of 71), Suzy Parker (2003, at the age of 70), Jackie Cooper (2011, at the age of 88), Ian Sander (2016, at the age of 68), Yumeji Tsukioka (2017, at the age of 94), John Ericson (2020, at the age of 93), Bruce Jay Friedman (2020, at the age of 90), Manobala (2023, at the age of 69), Alessandro D'Alatri (2023, at the age of 68)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.