On This Day - August 5
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on August 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Friday | $64,893,248 | $325,100,054 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | Sunday | $19,956,000 | $226,164,286 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Friday | $19,534,699 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Barbie | Saturday | $19,476,666 | $636,785,476 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Sunday | $19,324,800 | $227,471,070 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Saturday | $16,034,487 | $148,213,377 |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | Friday | $12,842,371 | $103,368,602 |
| 2005 | The Dukes of Hazzard | Friday | $12,645,171 | $80,270,227 |
| 2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Monday | $12,374,798 | $636,745,858 |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | Tuesday | $11,907,821 | $333,714,112 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on August 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | Friday | $64,893,248 | $325,100,054 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Friday | $19,534,699 | $176,760,185 |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | Friday | $12,842,371 | $103,368,602 |
| 2005 | The Dukes of Hazzard | Friday | $12,645,171 | $80,270,227 |
| 1998 | Halloween: H2O | Wednesday | $5,136,612 | $55,041,738 |
| 2011 | The Change-Up | Friday | $4,777,550 | $37,243,418 |
| 2016 | Nine Lives | Friday | $2,376,263 | $19,700,032 |
| 2022 | Easter Sunday | Friday | $2,033,045 | $13,013,690 |
| 2015 | Shaun the Sheep | Wednesday | $852,127 | $19,375,982 |
| 2022 | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Friday | $94,762 | $11,446,602 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was August 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Suicide Squad | $133,682,248 | $325,100,054 |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | $69,283,690 | $227,471,070 |
| 2001 | Rush Hour 2 | $67,408,222 | $226,164,286 |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | $54,806,191 | $176,760,185 |
| 2023 | Barbie | $53,008,647 | $636,785,476 |
| 2006 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | $47,042,215 | $148,213,377 |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | $35,737,330 | $448,139,099 |
| 2018 | Mission: Impossible—Fallout | $35,323,815 | $220,159,104 |
| 2005 | The Dukes of Hazzard | $30,675,314 | $80,270,227 |
| 2022 | Bullet Train | $30,030,156 | $103,368,602 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Reginald Owen (1887, died on November 5, 1972 at the age of 85), John Huston (1906, died on August 28, 1987 at the age of 81), Robert Taylor (1911, turns 114 this year), Tom Drake (1918, turns 107 this year), Selma Diamond (1920, died on May 13, 1985 at the age of 64), Sandy Kenyon (1922, died on February 20, 2010 at the age of 87), Ja’net DuBois (1932, died on February 17, 2020 at the age of 87), Ja’net DuBois (1932, died on February 17, 2020 at the age of 87), Zakes Mokae (1934, died on September 11, 2009 at the age of 75), Michael Ballhaus (1935, died on April 11, 2017 at the age of 81), John Saxon (1935, died on July 25, 2020 at the age of 84), Wanda Ventham (1935, turns 90 this year), Alan Howard (1937, died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 77), Bob Clark (1939, died on April 4, 2007 at the age of 67), Loni Anderson (1945, turns 80 this year), Erika Slezak (1946, turns 79 this year), Barbara Flynn (1948, turns 77 this year), John Jarratt (1951, turns 74 this year), Maureen McCormick (1956, turns 69 this year), Clayton Rohner (1957, turns 68 this year), Joanne Samuel (1957, turns 68 this year), Heidi Sorenson (1960, turns 65 this year), Janet McTeer (1961, turns 64 this year), Tawny Kitaen (1961, turns 64 this year), Mark Strong (1963, turns 62 this year), Scott William Winters (1965, turns 60 this year), James Gunn (1966, turns 59 this year), Jonathan Silverman (1966, turns 59 this year), David Steven Cohen (1966, died on March 17, 2025 at the age of 58), Darren Shahlavi (1972, died on January 14, 2015 at the age of 42), Ethan Erickson (1973, turns 52 this year), Lorri Bagley (1973, turns 52 this year), Kajol (1974, turns 51 this year), Iddo Goldberg (1975, turns 50 this year), Stephanie Szostak (1975, turns 50 this year), Sophie Winkleman (1980, turns 45 this year), Jesse Williams (1981, turns 44 this year), Ko Shibasaki (1981, turns 44 this year), Ryan McDonald (1984, turns 41 this year), Olivia Holt (1997, turns 28 this year), Adam Irigoyen (1997, turns 28 this year), Olivia Holt (1997, turns 28 this year), Mimi Keene (1998, turns 27 this year), J J Totah (2001, turns 24 this year), Honor Kneafsey (2004, turns 21 this year), Albert Tsai (2004, turns 21 this year), Elle McKinnon (2006, turns 19 this year), Hudson Meek (2008, died on December 21, 2024 at the age of 16)
Died on this day in history: David Townsend (1935, at the age of 43), Marilyn Monroe (1962, at the age of 36), Queenie Smith (1978, at the age of 79), Richard Burton (1984, at the age of 58), Ralph Meeker (1988, at the age of 67), Alec Guinness (2000, at the age of 86), Josh Ryan Evans (2002, at the age of 20), Francesco Quinn (2011, at the age of 48), Chavela Vargas (2012, at the age of 93), Charlotte Rae (2018, at the age of 92), Charlotte Rae (2018, at the age of 92), Jeffrey Tarrant (2019, at the age of 92), Toni Morrison (2019, at the age of 88), Pete Hamill (2020, at the age of 85), Richard Trumka (2021, at the age of 72), Brian Henderson (2021, at the age of 89), Clu Gulager (2022, at the age of 93), Richard Roat (2022, at the age of 89), Arthur Schmidt (2023, at the age of 86)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.