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 | $157,138,535 |
| 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 |
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, turned 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, turned 84 this year), Diana Berriman (1941, turned 83 this year), Emile Ardolino (1943, died on November 20, 1993 at the age of 50), Candice Bergen (1946, turned 78 this year), Anthony Higgins (1947, turned 77 this year), D.J. "Bishop" Rogers (1948, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 72), Billy Joel (1949, turned 75 this year), Amy Hill (1953, turned 71 this year), Dennie Gordon (1953, turned 71 this year), Kevin Peter Hall (1955, died on April 10, 1991 at the age of 35), Gabriel Beristain (1955, turned 69 this year), Wendy Crewson (1956, turned 68 this year), Tessa Peake-Jones (1957, turned 67 this year), Kristian Levring (1957, turned 67 this year), Chuck Russell (1958, turned 66 this year), Lorena Gale (1958, turned 66 this year), Ulrich Matthes (1959, turned 65 this year), John Corbett (1961, turned 63 this year), Sean McNamara (1962, turned 62 this year), Valeriy Todorovskiy (1962, turned 62 this year), Gary Daniels (1963, turned 61 this year), Ron Miles (1963, died on March 8, 2022 at the age of 58), Peter M. Lenkov (1964, turned 60 this year), Fedor Bondarchuk (1967, turned 57 this year), Tuffy Questell (1968, turned 56 this year), Hudson Leick (1969, turned 55 this year), Joe Carnahan (1969, turned 55 this year), Travis Milloy (1969, turned 55 this year), Anthony Molinari (1974, turned 50 this year), Chris Diamantopoulos (1975, turned 49 this year), Juan Antonio Bayona (1975, turned 49 this year), Niki Spiridakos (1975, turned 49 this year), Karl Thaning (1977, turned 47 this year), Daniel Franzese (1978, turned 46 this year), Rosario Dawson (1979, turned 45 this year), Sean Nelson (1980, turned 44 this year), Signe Egholm Olsen (1980, turned 44 this year), Oliver Trevena (1981, turned 43 this year), Rachel Boston (1982, turned 42 this year), Ryuhei Matsuda (1983, turned 41 this year), Michael Roark (1983, turned 41 this year), Tinsley Grimes (1984, turned 40 this year), Audrina Patridge (1985, turned 39 this year), Chris Zylka (1985, turned 39 this year), Grace Gummer (1986, turned 38 this year), Vijay Deverakonda (1990, turned 34 this year), Noah Centineo (1996, turned 28 this year), Mary Mouser (1996, turned 28 this year), Cree Cicchino (2002, turned 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), Roger Corman (2024, at the age of 98), Stephen Eric McIntyre (2024, at the age of 98)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.