The Numbers - On This Day - May 24
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Saturday | $36,533,839 | $317,101,119 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Saturday | $29,283,650 | $233,921,534 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | Saturday | $25,425,900 | $242,704,995 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Saturday | $24,443,450 | $229,086,679 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Sunday | $18,517,606 | $177,243,721 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | Sunday | $14,650,511 | $136,314,294 |
| 2013 | The Hangover 3 | Friday | $14,497,884 | $112,200,072 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Saturday | $14,447,596 | $281,553,689 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 24.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | Friday | $38,737,505 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Friday | $31,358,935 | $355,559,216 |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Wednesday | $12,516,528 | $215,409,889 |
| 2024 | Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | Friday | $10,356,086 | $67,587,546 |
| 2013 | Epic | Friday | $9,348,014 | $107,518,682 |
| 2024 | The Garfield Movie | Friday | $8,405,671 | $91,956,547 |
| 2002 | Insomnia | Friday | $6,034,000 | $67,263,182 |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Friday | $4,580,672 | $73,215,310 |
| 2002 | Enough | Friday | $4,512,000 | $39,177,215 |
| 2019 | BrightBurn | Friday | $3,000,854 | $17,259,427 |
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 24.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | $100,137,835 | $317,101,119 |
| 2013 | Fast and Furious 6 | $97,375,245 | $238,679,850 |
| 2019 | Aladdin | $91,500,929 | $355,559,216 |
| 2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | $90,823,660 | $233,921,534 |
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | $72,132,785 | $229,086,679 |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | $67,953,330 | $242,704,995 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | $54,173,286 | $177,243,721 |
| 2002 | Star Wars Ep. II: Attack of the Clones | $47,880,532 | $310,676,740 |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | $45,436,830 | $180,981,886 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | $44,047,541 | $136,314,294 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Willis Bouchey (1907, died on September 27, 1977 at the age of 70), Lilli Palmer (1914, died on January 27, 1986 at the age of 71), Peter Whitney (1916, died on March 30, 1972 at the age of 55), Seijun Suzuki (1923, died on February 13, 2017 at the age of 93), Mai Zetterling (1925, died on March 17, 1994 at the age of 68), William Trevor (1928, died on November 20, 2016 at the age of 88), Jim Clark (1931, died on February 25, 2016 at the age of 84), Michael Lonsdale (1931, died on September 21, 2020 at the age of 89), Joan Micklin Silver (1935, died on December 31, 2020 at the age of 85), Harold Budd (1936, died on December 7, 2020 at the age of 84), Tommy Chong (1938, turns 87 this year), Bob Dylan (1941, turns 84 this year), Andres Garcia (1941, died on April 4, 2023 at the age of 81), Svetlana Bragarnik (1944, died on February 25, 2023 at the age of 78), Priscilla Presley (1945, turns 80 this year), James Cosmo (1948, turns 77 this year), Roger Deakins (1949, turns 76 this year), Jim Broadbent (1949, turns 76 this year), Jean-Pierre Bacri (1951, died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 69), Sybil Danning (1952, turns 73 this year), Alfred Molina (1953, turns 72 this year), Nell Campbell (1953, turns 72 this year), Doug Jones (1960, turns 65 this year), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960, turns 65 this year), John C. Reilly (1965, turns 60 this year), Eric Cantona (1966, turns 59 this year), Dana Ashbrook (1967, turns 58 this year), Eric Close (1967, turns 58 this year), Heavy D (1967, turns 58 this year), Julie Dretzin (1968, turns 57 this year), Greg Berlanti (1972, turns 53 this year), Dash Mihok (1974, turns 51 this year), Thorbjørn Harr (1974, turns 51 this year), Will Sasso (1975, turns 50 this year), Synnøve Macody Lund (1976, turns 49 this year), Johannes Roberts (1976, turns 49 this year), Bryan Greenberg (1978, turns 47 this year), Jerod Mixon (1981, turns 44 this year), Ricky Mabe (1983, turns 42 this year), Sarah Hagan (1984, turns 41 this year), Deborah Francois (1987, turns 38 this year), Callie Hernandez (1988, turns 37 this year), Brianne Howey (1989, turns 36 this year), Kimberly Crossman (1990, turns 35 this year), Bobby Lockwood (1993, turns 32 this year), Cayden Boyd (1994, turns 31 this year), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998, turns 27 this year), Charlie Plummer (1999, turns 26 this year)
Died on this day in history: Paul Birch (1969, at the age of 57), Dick Martin (2008, at the age of 86), Lee Rich (2012, at the age of 93), Buck Kartalian (2016, at the age of 93), Burt Kwouk (2016, at the age of 85), Jared Martin (2017, at the age of 75), Bert Kish (2017, at the age of 51), Jean-Loup Dabadie (2020, at the age of 81), Jimmy Cobb (2020, at the age of 91), Samuel E. Wright (2021, at the age of 74), Robert Hall (2021, at the age of 47), Kenneth Anger (2023, at the age of 96), Tina Turner (2023, at the age of 83)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.