On This Day - May 15
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Thursday | $42,508,303 | $281,553,689 |
| 2015 | Pitch Perfect 2 | Friday | $28,009,745 | $184,296,230 |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Saturday | $22,642,564 | $312,433,331 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Sunday | $21,064,772 | $408,084,349 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Sunday | $18,169,002 | $411,331,607 |
| 2004 | Troy | Saturday | $17,058,889 | $133,298,577 |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Friday | $16,611,428 | $153,636,354 |
| 2009 | Angels & Demons | Friday | $16,471,357 | $133,375,846 |
| 2010 | Robin Hood | Saturday | $13,871,880 | $105,487,148 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Friday | $11,760,116 | $257,730,019 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 15.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Thursday | $42,508,303 | $281,553,689 |
| 2015 | Pitch Perfect 2 | Friday | $28,009,745 | $184,296,230 |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | Friday | $16,611,428 | $153,636,354 |
| 2009 | Angels & Demons | Friday | $16,471,357 | $133,375,846 |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Friday | $4,400,000 | $75,383,563 |
| 1998 | Quest for Camelot | Friday | $1,505,000 | $22,772,500 |
| 2009 | The Brothers Bloom | Friday | $22,782 | $3,531,756 |
| 2015 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Friday | $15,017 | $7,449,681 |
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 15.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $72,637,142 | $408,084,349 |
| 2015 | Pitch Perfect 2 | $69,216,890 | $184,296,230 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | $61,755,804 | $411,331,607 |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | $52,041,005 | $312,433,331 |
| 2004 | Troy | $46,865,412 | $133,298,577 |
| 2009 | Angels & Demons | $46,204,168 | $133,375,846 |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | $45,428,128 | $153,636,354 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | $43,034,547 | $257,730,019 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $38,859,900 | $459,005,868 |
| 2010 | Robin Hood | $36,063,385 | $105,487,148 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Joseph Cotten (1905, died on February 6, 1994 at the age of 88), Joseph Cotton (1905, died on February 6, 1994 at the age of 88), James Mason (1909, died on July 27, 1984 at the age of 75), Joseph Wiseman (1918, died on October 19, 2009 at the age of 91), Doris Dowling (1923, died on June 18, 2004 at the age of 81), Eugenio Martín (1925, died on January 23, 2023 at the age of 97), John Glen (1932, turns 92 this year), Burt Shavitz (1935, died on July 5, 2015 at the age of 80), Anna Maria Alberghetti (1936, turns 88 this year), Madeleine Albright (1937, died on March 23, 2022 at the age of 84), Lainie Kazan (1942, turns 82 this year), Nicholas Hammond (1950, turns 74 this year), Chazz Palminteri (1952, turns 72 this year), Cleavant Derricks (1953, turns 71 this year), Lee Horsley (1955, turns 69 this year), Dan Patrick (1956, turns 68 this year), Rob Bowman (1960, turns 64 this year), Katrin Cartlidge (1961, died on September 7, 2002 at the age of 41), Daniel Gimenez Cacho (1961, turns 63 this year), Rod Lurie (1962, turns 62 this year), Brenda Bakke (1963, turns 61 this year), Grant Heslov (1963, turns 61 this year), Jamie Harris (1963, turns 61 this year), Katie Rich (1964, turns 60 this year), Greg Wise (1966, turns 58 this year), Madhuri Dixit (1967, turns 57 this year), Jess Search (1969, died on July 31, 2023 at the age of 54), Nicola Walker (1970, turns 54 this year), Brad Rowe (1970, turns 54 this year), Michael Patrick Jann (1970, turns 54 this year), Tom Wu (1972, turns 52 this year), Russell Hornsby (1974, turns 50 this year), Ahmet Zappa (1974, turns 50 this year), David Krumholtz (1978, turns 46 this year), Caroline Dhavernas (1978, turns 46 this year), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981, turns 43 this year), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982, turns 42 this year), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982, turns 42 this year), Ashlynn Yennie (1985, turns 39 this year), Trevor Habberstad (1989, died on February 19, 2017 at the age of 27), Jack Henry Robbins (1989, turns 35 this year), Maximilan Befort (1989, turns 35 this year), Sophie Cookson (1990, turns 34 this year), Autumn Dial (1990, turns 34 this year), Mollee Gray (1991, turns 33 this year), Inanna Sarkis (1993, turns 31 this year), Kimie Tsukakoshi (1999, turns 25 this year), Jacqueline Scislowski (2000, turns 24 this year)
Died on this day in history: Albert Bassermann (1952, at the age of 84), Nigel Green (1972, at the age of 47), Ronald Lacey (1991, at the age of 55), Royal Dano (1994, at the age of 71), Gilbert Roland (1994, at the age of 88), Gill Dennis (2015, at the age of 88), John Stephenson (2015, at the age of 91), Michael Roberds (2016, at the age of 52), Oleg Vidov (2017, at the age of 73), Fred Willard (2020, at the age of 80), Jerzy Trela (2022, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.