On This Day - May 24
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Saturday | $36,533,839 | $317,101,119 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Saturday | $29,283,650 | $233,921,534 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Saturday | $25,425,900 | $242,704,995 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Saturday | $24,443,450 | $229,086,679 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Sunday | $18,517,606 | $177,243,721 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | Sunday | $14,650,511 | $136,314,294 |
| 2013 | The Hangover 3 | Friday | $14,497,884 | $112,200,072 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Saturday | $14,447,596 | $281,553,689 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Wednesday | $12,516,528 | $215,409,889 |
| 2024 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Friday | $10,356,086 | $67,260,980 |
| 2013 | Epic | Friday | $9,348,014 | $107,518,682 |
| 2024 | The Garfield Movie | Friday | $8,405,671 | $90,455,603 |
| 2002 | Insomnia | Friday | $6,034,000 | $67,263,182 |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Friday | $4,580,672 | $73,215,310 |
| 2002 | Enough | Friday | $4,512,000 | $39,177,215 |
| 2019 | BrightBurn | Friday | $3,000,854 | $17,259,427 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | $100,137,835 | $317,101,119 |
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | $97,375,245 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | $91,500,929 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | $90,823,660 | $233,921,534 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | $72,132,785 | $229,086,679 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | $67,953,330 | $242,704,995 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | $54,173,286 | $177,243,721 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $47,880,532 | $310,676,740 |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | $45,436,830 | $180,981,886 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | $44,047,541 | $136,314,294 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1907, died on September 27, 1977 at the age of 70), Lilli Palmer (1914, died on January 27, 1986 at the age of 71), Peter Whitney (1916, died on March 30, 1972 at the age of 55), Seijun Suzuki (1923, died on February 13, 2017 at the age of 93), Mai Zetterling (1925, died on March 17, 1994 at the age of 68), William Trevor (1928, died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88), Jim Clark (1931, died on February 25, 2016 at the age of 84), Michael Lonsdale (1931, died on September 21, 2020 at the age of 89), Joan Micklin Silver (1935, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 85), Harold Budd (1936, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 84), Tommy Chong (1938, turned 86 this year), Bob Dylan (1941, turned 83 this year), Andres Garcia (1941, died on April 4, 2023 at the age of 81), Svetlana Bragarnik (1944, died on February 25, 2023 at the age of 78), Priscilla Presley (1945, turned 79 this year), James Cosmo (1948, turned 76 this year), Roger Deakins (1949, turned 75 this year), Jim Broadbent (1949, turned 75 this year), Jean-Pierre Bacri (1951, died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 69), Sybil Danning (1952, turned 72 this year), Alfred Molina (1953, turned 71 this year), Nell Campbell (1953, turned 71 this year), Doug Jones (1960, turned 64 this year), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960, turned 64 this year), John C. Reilly (1965, turned 59 this year), Eric Cantona (1966, turned 58 this year), Dana Ashbrook (1967, turned 57 this year), Eric Close (1967, turned 57 this year), Heavy D (1967, turned 57 this year), Julie Dretzin (1968, turned 56 this year), Greg Berlanti (1972, turned 52 this year), Dash Mihok (1974, turned 50 this year), Thorbjørn Harr (1974, turned 50 this year), Will Sasso (1975, turned 49 this year), Synnøve Macody Lund (1976, turned 48 this year), Johannes Roberts (1976, turned 48 this year), Bryan Greenberg (1978, turned 46 this year), Jerod Mixon (1981, turned 43 this year), Ricky Mabe (1983, turned 41 this year), Sarah Hagan (1984, turned 40 this year), Deborah Francois (1987, turned 37 this year), Callie Hernandez (1988, turned 36 this year), Brianne Howey (1989, turned 35 this year), Kimberly Crossman (1990, turned 34 this year), Bobby Lockwood (1993, turned 31 this year), Cayden Boyd (1994, turned 30 this year), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998, turned 26 this year), Charlie Plummer (1999, turned 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Paul Birch (1969, at the age of 57), Dick Martin (2008, at the age of 86), Lee Rich (2012, at the age of 93), Buck Kartalian (2016, at the age of 93), Burt Kwouk (2016, at the age of 85), Jared Martin (2017, at the age of 75), Bert Kish (2017, at the age of 51), Jean-Loup Dabadie (2020, at the age of 81), Jimmy Cobb (2020, at the age of 91), Samuel E. Wright (2021, at the age of 74), Robert Hall (2021, at the age of 47), Kenneth Anger (2023, at the age of 96), Tina Turner (2023, at the age of 83)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.