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 | $154,363,726 |
| 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 | $154,363,726 |
| 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 | $154,363,726 |
| 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 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Verity, Untitled Universal Event Film
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, turned 93 this year), Burt Shavitz (1935, died on July 5, 2015 at the age of 80), Anna Maria Alberghetti (1936, turned 89 this year), Madeleine Albright (1937, died on March 23, 2022 at the age of 84), Lainie Kazan (1942, turned 83 this year), Nicholas Hammond (1950, turned 75 this year), Chazz Palminteri (1952, turned 73 this year), Cleavant Derricks (1953, turned 72 this year), Lee Horsley (1955, turned 70 this year), Dan Patrick (1956, turned 69 this year), Rob Bowman (1960, turned 65 this year), Katrin Cartlidge (1961, died on September 7, 2002 at the age of 41), Daniel Gimenez Cacho (1961, turned 64 this year), Rod Lurie (1962, turned 63 this year), Brenda Bakke (1963, turned 62 this year), Grant Heslov (1963, turned 62 this year), Jamie Harris (1963, turned 62 this year), Katie Rich (1964, turned 61 this year), Greg Wise (1966, turned 59 this year), Madhuri Dixit (1967, turned 58 this year), Jess Search (1969, died on July 31, 2023 at the age of 54), Nicola Walker (1970, turned 55 this year), Brad Rowe (1970, turned 55 this year), Michael Patrick Jann (1970, turned 55 this year), Tom Wu (1972, turned 53 this year), Russell Hornsby (1974, turned 51 this year), Ahmet Zappa (1974, turned 51 this year), David Krumholtz (1978, turned 47 this year), Caroline Dhavernas (1978, turned 47 this year), Jamie-Lynn Sigler (1981, turned 44 this year), Alexandra Breckenridge (1982, turned 43 this year), Tatsuya Fujiwara (1982, turned 43 this year), Ashlynn Yennie (1985, turned 40 this year), Trevor Habberstad (1989, died on February 19, 2017 at the age of 27), Jack Henry Robbins (1989, turned 36 this year), Maximilan Befort (1989, turned 36 this year), Sophie Cookson (1990, turned 35 this year), Autumn Dial (1990, turned 35 this year), Mollee Gray (1991, turned 34 this year), Inanna Sarkis (1993, turned 32 this year), Kimie Tsukakoshi (1999, turned 26 this year), Jacqueline Scislowski (2000, turned 25 this year)
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), Charles Strouse (2025, at the age of 96)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.