On This Day - May 8
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Saturday | $45,776,170 | $312,433,331 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Sunday | $42,427,980 | $408,084,349 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Sunday | $38,893,364 | $411,331,607 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Friday | $30,893,975 | $257,730,019 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Friday | $21,232,362 | $459,005,868 |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Saturday | $19,644,625 | $120,150,546 |
| 1999 | The Mummy | Saturday | $18,015,000 | $155,559,305 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Tuesday | $17,677,190 | $623,357,910 |
| 2011 | Thor | Sunday | $16,900,279 | $181,030,624 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Friday | $13,198,000 | $140,464,664 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 8.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Star Trek | Friday | $30,893,975 | $257,730,019 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Friday | $13,198,000 | $140,464,664 |
| 2015 | Hot Pursuit | Friday | $4,196,921 | $34,580,201 |
| 2009 | Next Day Air | Friday | $1,411,107 | $10,027,047 |
| 1998 | Woo | Friday | $734,000 | $8,064,972 |
| 2015 | The D Train | Friday | $160,000 | $669,688 |
| 2015 | 5 Flights Up | Friday | $63,040 | $1,020,921 |
| 2015 | Maggie | Friday | $45,000 | $187,112 |
| 2002 | Unfaithful | Wednesday | $27,000 | $52,752,475 |
| 2020 | How to Build a Girl | Friday | $4,604 | $70,632 |
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 8.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | $187,420,998 | $411,331,607 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $179,139,142 | $408,084,349 |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | $128,122,480 | $312,433,331 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | $79,204,289 | $257,730,019 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $77,746,929 | $459,005,868 |
| 2011 | Thor | $65,723,338 | $181,030,624 |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | $51,748,040 | $120,150,546 |
| 1999 | The Mummy | $43,369,635 | $155,559,305 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | $41,152,375 | $140,464,664 |
| 2011 | Fast Five | $32,445,320 | $210,031,325 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Roberto Rossellini (1906, died on June 3, 1977 at the age of 71), Sidney James (1913, died on April 26, 1976 at the age of 62), Don Rickles (1926, died on April 6, 2017 at the age of 90), Sir David Attenborough (1926, turns 98 this year), Marcia Nasatir (1926, died on August 3, 2021 at the age of 95), Murray Lerner (1927, died on September 2, 2017 at the age of 90), Michele Greco (1929, died on March 22, 2019 at the age of 89), Phyllida Law (1932, turns 92 this year), Salome Jens (1935, turns 89 this year), Jerry Moss (1935, died on August 16, 2023 at the age of 88), Emilio Delgado (1940, died on March 10, 2022 at the age of 81), Mark Blankfield (1950, turns 74 this year), Deborah Harmon (1951, turns 73 this year), Cooper Huckabee (1951, turns 73 this year), Stephen Furst (1954, died on June 16, 2017 at the age of 63), David Keith (1954, turns 70 this year), Raoul Trujillo (1955, turns 69 this year), Jeff Wincott (1956, turns 68 this year), Aneirin Hughes (1958, turns 66 this year), Patrick McKenna (1960, turns 64 this year), Michel Gondry (1963, turns 61 this year), Melissa Gilbert (1964, turns 60 this year), Jodhi May (1975, turns 49 this year), Enrique Iglesias (1975, turns 49 this year), Matthew Davis (1978, turns 46 this year), Josie Maran (1978, turns 46 this year), Jasen Fisher (1980, turns 44 this year), Stephen Amell (1981, turns 43 this year), Christina Cole (1982, turns 42 this year), Vicky McClure (1983, turns 41 this year), Elyes Gabel (1983, turns 41 this year), Martin Compston (1984, turns 40 this year), Aneurin Barnard (1987, turns 37 this year), Nora Arnezeder (1989, turns 35 this year), Olivia Culpo (1992, turns 32 this year), Ana Mulvoy Ten (1992, turns 32 this year), Bobbi Salvör Menuez (1993, turns 31 this year)
Died on this day in history: Richard Derr (1992, at the age of 74), George Peppard (1994, at the age of 65), Dirk Bogarde (1999, at the age of 78), Tonita Castro (2016, at the age of 63), Nick Lashaway (2016, at the age of 28), William Schallert (2016, at the age of 93), Curt Lowens (2017, at the age of 91), Frank Zieger (2017, at the age of 41), Anne V. Coates (2018, at the age of 92), Graeme Ferguson (2021, at the age of 91), Dennis Waterman (2022, at the age of 74), Fred Ward (2022, at the age of 79), Pema Tseden (2023, at the age of 53)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.