On This Day - May 11
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 11.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Saturday | $32,053,127 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Saturday | $30,505,929 | $404,387,739 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Friday | $29,223,517 | $623,357,910 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Saturday | $27,542,359 | $858,373,000 |
| 2019 | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | Saturday | $20,365,840 | $144,105,346 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | Saturday | $17,657,569 | $144,840,419 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Friday | $17,161,696 | $336,530,303 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Friday | $15,986,612 | $678,815,482 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Sunday | $14,942,808 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | Sunday | $11,655,475 | $150,086,800 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 11.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Dark Shadows | Friday | $9,673,463 | $79,727,149 |
| 2001 | A Knight’s Tale | Friday | $5,860,000 | $56,083,966 |
| 2018 | Life of the Party | Friday | $4,935,225 | $53,059,911 |
| 2018 | Breaking In | Friday | $4,578,710 | $46,840,590 |
| 2007 | 28 Weeks Later | Friday | $3,924,918 | $28,638,916 |
| 2007 | Georgia Rule | Friday | $1,893,105 | $18,882,880 |
| 2007 | Delta Farce | Friday | $1,181,602 | $8,130,530 |
| 2007 | The Ex | Friday | $487,798 | $3,091,922 |
| 2012 | Girl in Progress | Friday | $408,134 | $2,609,412 |
| 2018 | Yoake tsugeru Rû no uta | Friday | $21,088 | $110,168 |
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 11.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Avengers | $103,052,274 | $623,357,910 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $72,525,615 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $71,417,527 | $404,387,739 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $63,299,904 | $858,373,000 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $62,078,047 | $678,815,482 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | $58,166,256 | $336,530,303 |
| 2019 | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | $54,365,242 | $144,105,346 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | $51,190,629 | $318,604,126 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | $50,085,184 | $144,840,419 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | $49,033,915 | $150,086,800 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Margaret Rutherford (1892, died on May 22, 1972 at the age of 80), Salvador Dalí (1904, died on January 23, 1989 at the age of 84), Bernard Fox (1927, died on December 14, 2016 at the age of 89), Mort Sahl (1927, died on October 26, 2021 at the age of 94), Marco Ferreri (1928, died on May 9, 1997 at the age of 68), Doug McClure (1935, died on February 5, 1995 at the age of 59), Dan Ireland (1948, died on April 14, 2016 at the age of 67), Pam Ferris (1948, turns 76 this year), Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952, turns 72 this year), Frances Fisher (1952, turns 72 this year), Marguerite MacIntyre (1961, turns 63 this year), Natasha Richardson (1963, died on March 18, 2009 at the age of 45), Tim Blake Nelson (1964, turns 60 this year), Jeffrey Donovan (1968, turns 56 this year), Nicky Katt (1970, turns 54 this year), Karen Kilgariff (1970, turns 54 this year), Warren Brown (1978, turns 46 this year), Laetitia Casta (1978, turns 46 this year), Mary Elizabeth Ellis (1979, turns 45 this year), Austin O’Brien (1981, turns 43 this year), Cory Monteith (1982, died on July 13, 2013 at the age of 31), Jonathan Jackson (1982, turns 42 this year), Holly Valance (1983, turns 41 this year), Annabelle Attanasio (1993, turns 31 this year), Shira Haas (1995, turns 29 this year), Lana Condor (1997, turns 27 this year), Sabrina Carpenter (1999, turns 25 this year)
Died on this day in history: Jean Adair (1953, at the age of 79), Tom E. Lewis (2018, at the age of 59), Peggy Lipton (2019, at the age of 72), Pua Magasiva (2019, at the age of 38), Jean-Claude Brisseau (2019, at the age of 74), Cesar Gonzalez (2019, at the age of 51), Jerry Stiller (2020, at the age of 92), Buddy Van Horn (2021, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.