On This Day - May 9
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Saturday | $33,835,656 | $459,005,868 |
| 2010 | Iron Man 2 | Sunday | $31,106,633 | $312,433,331 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Saturday | $27,248,613 | $257,730,019 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | Friday | $19,574,490 | $150,086,800 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Saturday | $15,930,000 | $140,464,664 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Friday | $14,873,192 | $318,604,126 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Monday | $13,620,560 | $411,331,607 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Wednesday | $13,612,910 | $623,357,910 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Monday | $13,291,876 | $408,084,349 |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | Sunday | $12,583,985 | $120,150,546 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 9.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Neighbors | Friday | $19,574,490 | $150,086,800 |
| 2003 | Daddy Day Care | Friday | $7,599,276 | $104,148,781 |
| 2008 | What Happens in Vegas... | Friday | $7,171,134 | $80,277,646 |
| 2008 | Speed Racer | Friday | $6,192,227 | $43,945,766 |
| 2014 | Moms’ Night Out | Friday | $1,247,094 | $10,429,707 |
| 2014 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return | Friday | $1,007,382 | $8,462,347 |
| 2014 | Chef | Friday | $53,272 | $31,424,004 |
| 2008 | The Fall | Friday | $25,099 | $2,280,348 |
| 2008 | Before the Rains | Friday | $13,047 | $1,037,128 |
| 2014 | The Hornet’s Nest | Friday | $7,394 | $312,706 |
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 9.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2004 | Van Helsing | $51,748,040 | $120,150,546 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | $51,190,629 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | $49,033,915 | $150,086,800 |
| 1999 | The Mummy | $43,369,635 | $155,559,305 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | $41,152,375 | $140,464,664 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | $40,032,160 | $214,949,694 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | $35,501,212 | $202,853,933 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: Kalki 2898-AD, 2025: P31
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: J.M. Barrie (1860, died on June 19, 1937 at the age of 77), Richard Barthelmess (1895, died on August 17, 1963 at the age of 68), Pedro Armendáriz (1912, died on June 18, 1963 at the age of 51), Mike Wallace (1918, died on April 7, 2012 at the age of 93), Richard Adams (1920, died on December 24, 2016 at the age of 96), Geraldine McEwan (1932, died on January 30, 2015 at the age of 82), Alan Bennett (1934, turns 90 this year), Albert Finney (1936, died on February 7, 2019 at the age of 82), Glenda Jackson (1936, died on June 15, 1936 at the age of 0), James L. Brooks (1940, turns 84 this year), Diana Berriman (1941, turns 83 this year), Emile Ardolino (1943, died on November 20, 1993 at the age of 50), Candice Bergen (1946, turns 78 this year), Anthony Higgins (1947, turns 77 this year), D.J. "Bishop" Rogers (1948, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 72), Billy Joel (1949, turns 75 this year), Amy Hill (1953, turns 71 this year), Dennie Gordon (1953, turns 71 this year), Kevin Peter Hall (1955, died on April 10, 1991 at the age of 35), Gabriel Beristain (1955, turns 69 this year), Wendy Crewson (1956, turns 68 this year), Tessa Peake-Jones (1957, turns 67 this year), Kristian Levring (1957, turns 67 this year), Chuck Russell (1958, turns 66 this year), Lorena Gale (1958, turns 66 this year), Ulrich Matthes (1959, turns 65 this year), John Corbett (1961, turns 63 this year), Sean McNamara (1962, turns 62 this year), Valeriy Todorovskiy (1962, turns 62 this year), Gary Daniels (1963, turns 61 this year), Ron Miles (1963, died on March 8, 2022 at the age of 58), Peter M. Lenkov (1964, turns 60 this year), Fedor Bondarchuk (1967, turns 57 this year), Tuffy Questell (1968, turns 56 this year), Hudson Leick (1969, turns 55 this year), Joe Carnahan (1969, turns 55 this year), Travis Milloy (1969, turns 55 this year), Anthony Molinari (1974, turns 50 this year), Chris Diamantopoulos (1975, turns 49 this year), Juan Antonio Bayona (1975, turns 49 this year), Niki Spiridakos (1975, turns 49 this year), Karl Thaning (1977, turns 47 this year), Daniel Franzese (1978, turns 46 this year), Rosario Dawson (1979, turns 45 this year), Sean Nelson (1980, turns 44 this year), Signe Egholm Olsen (1980, turns 44 this year), Oliver Trevena (1981, turns 43 this year), Rachel Boston (1982, turns 42 this year), Ryuhei Matsuda (1983, turns 41 this year), Michael Roark (1983, turns 41 this year), Tinsley Grimes (1984, turns 40 this year), Audrina Patridge (1985, turns 39 this year), Chris Zylka (1985, turns 39 this year), Grace Gummer (1986, turns 38 this year), Vijay Deverakonda (1990, turns 34 this year), Noah Centineo (1996, turns 28 this year), Mary Mouser (1996, turns 28 this year), Cree Cicchino (2002, turns 22 this year)
Died on this day in history: Margaret Lindsay (1981, at the age of 70), Edmond O’Brien (1985, at the age of 69), Marco Ferreri (1997, at the age of 68), Hoke Howell (1997, at the age of 67), Alice Faye (1998, at the age of 83), Alan King (2004, at the age of 76), Lena Horne (2010, at the age of 92), Vidal Sassoon (2012, at the age of 84), Elizabeth Wilson (2015, at the age of 94), Michael Parks (2017, at the age of 77), Per Kirkeby (2018, at the age of 79), Clement von Franckenstein (2019, at the age of 74), Alvin Sargent (2019, at the age of 92), Little Richard (2020, at the age of 87), Arthur Dignam (2020, at the age of 80), Geno Silva (2020, at the age of 80)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.