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

Released Today

Movies that were released today: Transformers 40th Anniversary Event

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 today), Burt Shavitz (1935, died on July 5, 2015 at the age of 80), Anna Maria Alberghetti (1936, turns 88 today), Madeleine Albright (1937, died on March 23, 2022 at the age of 84), Lainie Kazan (1942, turns 82 today), Nicholas Hammond (1950, turns 74 today), Chazz Palminteri (1952, turns 72 today), Cleavant Derricks (1953, turns 71 today), Lee Horsley (1955, turns 69 today), Dan Patrick (1956, turns 68 today), Rob Bowman (1960, turns 64 today), Katrin Cartlidge (1961, died on September 7, 2002 at the age of 41), Daniel Gimenez Cacho (1961, turns 63 today), Rod Lurie (1962, turns 62 today), Brenda Bakke (1963, turns 61 today), Grant Heslov (1963, turns 61 today), Jamie Harris (1963, turns 61 today), Katie Rich (1964, turns 60 today), Greg Wise (1966, turns 58 today), Madhuri Dixit (1967, turns 57 today), Jess Search (1969, died on July 31, 2023 at the age of 54), Nicola Walker (1970, turns 54 today), Brad Rowe (1970, turns 54 today), Michael Patrick Jann (1970, turns 54 today), Tom Wu (1972, turns 52 today), Russell Hornsby (1974, turns 50 today), Ahmet Zappa (1974, turns 50 today), David Krumholtz (1978, turns 46 today), Caroline Dhavernas (1978, turns 46 today), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981, turns 43 today), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982, turns 42 today), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982, turns 42 today), Ashlynn Yennie (1985, turns 39 today), Trevor Habberstad (1989, died on February 19, 2017 at the age of 27), Jack Henry Robbins (1989, turns 35 today), Maximilan Befort (1989, turns 35 today), Sophie Cookson (1990, turns 34 today), Autumn Dial (1990, turns 34 today), Mollee Gray (1991, turns 33 today), Inanna Sarkis (1993, turns 31 today), Kimie Tsukakoshi (1999, turns 25 today), Jacqueline Scislowski (2000, turns 24 today)

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.