On This Day - May 5
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Avengers | Saturday | $69,557,990 | $623,357,910 |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Friday | $56,078,520 | $389,813,101 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Saturday | $51,336,732 | $337,607,351 |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 | Friday | $48,103,839 | $358,995,815 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Saturday | $46,676,705 | $678,815,482 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Sunday | $45,119,388 | $858,373,000 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Sunday | $43,012,812 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Sunday | $31,814,980 | $404,652,858 |
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | Saturday | $28,594,667 | $202,007,640 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Friday | $16,632,157 | $133,501,348 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Friday | $56,078,520 | $389,813,101 |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 | Friday | $48,103,839 | $358,995,815 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Friday | $16,632,157 | $133,501,348 |
| 2000 | Gladiator | Friday | $11,683,107 | $187,683,805 |
| 2006 | An American Haunting | Friday | $2,000,000 | $16,298,046 |
| 2006 | Hoot | Friday | $1,000,000 | $8,117,637 |
| 2023 | Love Again | Friday | $951,937 | $6,230,837 |
| 2000 | I Dreamed of Africa | Friday | $683,959 | $6,543,194 |
| 2017 | The Dinner | Friday | $209,403 | $1,323,312 |
| 2017 | Risk | Friday | $29,402 | $200,219 |
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 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Avengers | $207,438,708 | $623,357,910 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $174,144,585 | $408,992,272 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | $151,116,516 | $337,607,351 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $147,383,211 | $858,373,000 |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | $146,510,104 | $389,813,101 |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 | $118,414,021 | $358,995,815 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $114,844,116 | $404,652,858 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $114,774,810 | $678,815,482 |
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | $68,139,035 | $202,007,640 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | $47,743,273 | $133,501,348 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (1898, died on November 19, 1958 at the age of 60), Tyrone Power (1914, died on November 15, 1958 at the age of 44), Alice Faye (1915, died on May 9, 1998 at the age of 83), Ben Wright (1915, died on July 2, 1989 at the age of 74), Bing Russell (1926, died on April 8, 2003 at the age of 76), Pat Carroll (1927, died on July 30, 2022 at the age of 95), Ilene Woods (1929, died on July 1, 2010 at the age of 81), Will Hutchins (1930, turned 94 this year), Robert Rehme (1935, turned 89 this year), Michael Murphy (1938, turned 86 this year), Michael Lindsay-Hogg (1940, turned 84 this year), Lance Henriksen (1940, turned 84 this year), Marc Alaimo (1942, turned 82 this year), Michael Palin (1943, turned 81 this year), Roger Rees (1944, died on July 10, 2015 at the age of 71), John Rhys-Davies (1944, turned 80 this year), Kurt Loder (1945, turned 79 this year), Étienne Chicot (1949, died on August 7, 2018 at the age of 69), Marion Bailey (1951, turned 73 this year), Nicholas Guest (1951, turned 73 this year), Juanita Brown (1951, turned 73 this year), Lisa Jane Persky (1955, turned 69 this year), Lisa Eilbacher (1956, turned 68 this year), Richard E. Grant (1957, turned 67 this year), Peter Howitt (1957, turned 67 this year), Kurt Sutter (1960, turned 64 this year), James Redford (1962, died on October 16, 2020 at the age of 58), Don Payne (1964, died on March 26, 2013 at the age of 48), Takehito Koyasu (1965, turned 59 this year), Darrin DeWitt Henson (1972, turned 52 this year), Tina Yothers (1973, turned 51 this year), Marva Hicks (1975, died on September 17, 2022 at the age of 47), Sage Stallone (1976, died on July 13, 2012 at the age of 36), Virginie Efira (1977, turned 47 this year), Morgan Pehme (1978, turned 46 this year), Santiago Cabrera (1978, turned 46 this year), Vincent Kartheiser (1979, turned 45 this year), Zach McGowan (1980, turned 44 this year), Danielle Fishel (1981, turned 43 this year), Henry Cavill (1983, turned 41 this year), Shoko Nakagawa (1985, turned 39 this year), Clark Duke (1985, turned 39 this year), Brooke Hogan (1988, turned 36 this year), Chris Brown (1989, turned 35 this year), Raai Laxmi (1989, turned 35 this year), Bobby Coleman (1997, turned 27 this year)
Died on this day in history: Albert Dekker (1968, at the age of 62), Frank Tashlin (1972, at the age of 59), George Sidney (2002, at the age of 85), Sylvia Kauders (2016, at the age of 94), Barbara Perry (2019, at the age of 97), Kenneth Welsh (2022, at the age of 80), Bernard Hill (2024, at the age of 79), Jeannie Epper (2024, at the age of 83)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.