On This Day - May 27
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Friday | $52,012,661 | $718,732,821 |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | Sunday | $34,121,377 | $309,420,425 |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Saturday | $31,997,843 | $234,362,462 |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | Saturday | $30,119,527 | $298,172,056 |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II | Friday | $29,982,180 | $254,464,305 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Friday | $26,302,191 | $155,442,489 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Monday | $25,305,033 | $355,559,216 |
| 2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | Sunday | $24,443,468 | $213,767,512 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Saturday | $21,969,000 | $215,409,889 |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | Saturday | $20,335,475 | $172,558,876 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 27.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Friday | $52,012,661 | $718,732,821 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | Friday | $26,302,191 | $155,442,489 |
| 2005 | The Longest Yard | Friday | $16,186,262 | $158,119,460 |
| 2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Thursday | $14,208,097 | $95,347,692 |
| 2005 | Madagascar | Friday | $13,947,637 | $193,595,521 |
| 2016 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Friday | $9,701,973 | $77,042,381 |
| 2022 | The Bob’s Burgers Movie | Friday | $5,679,809 | $31,933,830 |
| 1998 | I Got the Hook-Up! | Wednesday | $655,346 | $10,317,779 |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Friday | $120,130 | $13,305,665 |
| 2022 | Rite of the Shaman | Friday | $5,330 | $16,221 |
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 27.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | $126,707,459 | $718,732,821 |
| 2007 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End | $114,732,820 | $309,420,425 |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | $102,750,665 | $234,362,462 |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | $95,578,040 | $298,172,056 |
| 2011 | The Hangover Part II | $85,946,294 | $254,464,305 |
| 2018 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | $84,420,489 | $213,767,512 |
| 2016 | X-Men: Apocalypse | $65,769,562 | $155,442,489 |
| 2017 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | $62,983,253 | $172,558,876 |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | $59,078,912 | $198,539,855 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | $57,845,297 | $215,409,889 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Dashiell Hammett (1894, died on January 10, 1961 at the age of 66), Vincent Price (1911, died on October 25, 1993 at the age of 82), Christopher Lee (1922, died on June 7, 2015 at the age of 93), Henry Kissinger (1923, died on November 29, 2023 at the age of 100), Steve Franken (1932, turned 93 this year), Harlan Ellison (1934, died on June 28, 2018 at the age of 84), Lee Meriwether (1935, turned 90 this year), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936, died on March 28, 2024 at the age of 87), Vida Ghahremani (1936, died on June 2, 2018 at the age of 82), Sandy Gallin (1940, died on April 21, 2017 at the age of 76), Stig Hoffmeyer (1940, died on November 25, 2022 at the age of 82), Zack Norman (1940, died on April 28, 2024 at the age of 83), Bruce Weitz (1943, turned 82 this year), Lewis Collins (1946, died on November 27, 2013 at the age of 67), Ken Lerner (1948, turned 77 this year), Michelan Sisti (1949, turned 76 this year), Jane Musky (1954, turned 71 this year), Richard Schiff (1955, turned 70 this year), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956, turned 69 this year), Chelsea Field (1957, turned 68 this year), Linnea Quigley (1958, turned 67 this year), Peri Gilpin (1961, turned 64 this year), Steven Brill (1962, turned 63 this year), Kim Jee-woon (1964, turned 61 this year), Adam Carolla (1964, turned 61 this year), Todd Bridges (1965, turned 60 this year), Eddie McClintock (1967, turned 58 this year), Dondre Whitfield (1969, turned 56 this year), Joseph Fiennes (1970, turned 55 this year), Jodi Harris (1970, turned 55 this year), Paul Bettany (1971, turned 54 this year), Yorgos Lanthimos (1973, turned 52 this year), Jack McBrayer (1973, turned 52 this year), Andre Benjamin (1975, turned 50 this year), Shanola Hampton (1977, turned 48 this year), Brad Peyton (1978, turned 47 this year), Ben Feldman (1980, turned 45 this year), Michael Steger (1980, turned 45 this year), Darin Brooks (1984, turned 41 this year), Andrew Francis (1985, turned 40 this year), Bella Heathcote (1987, turned 38 this year), Alicia Sixtos (1988, turned 37 this year), Chris Colfer (1990, turned 35 this year), Chelsea Gilligan (1991, turned 34 this year), Lily-Rose Depp (1999, turned 26 this year), Izabela Vidovic (2001, turned 24 this year), Shiloh Jolie Pitt (2006, turned 19 this year)
Died on this day in history: Ed Brophy (1960, at the age of 65), Severn Darden (1995, at the age of 65), Paul Gleason (2006, at the age of 67), Jeff Conaway (2011, at the age of 60), Russell Wolfe (2015, at the age of 60), Vince Deadrick Sr. (2017, at the age of 84), Anthony B. Major (2019, at the age of 79), Shane Briant (2021, at the age of 74), Elizabeth MacRae (2024, at the age of 88), Bill Walton (2024, at the age of 71), Ed Gale (2025, at the age of 61), Peter Kwong (2025, at the age of 72), Presley Chweneyagae (2025, at the age of 40), Ronnie Dugger (2025, at the age of 95)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.