On This Day - May 31
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 31.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | Finding Nemo | Saturday | $28,011,547 | $380,529,370 |
2025 | Lilo & Stitch | Saturday | $25,868,621 | $410,394,353 |
2014 | Maleficent | Saturday | $25,750,641 | $241,407,328 |
2004 | Shrek 2 | Monday | $23,408,002 | $439,820,881 |
2009 | Up | Sunday | $20,232,637 | $293,004,164 |
2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Saturday | $19,827,731 | $317,101,119 |
2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Friday | $19,476,894 | $110,500,138 |
2008 | Sex and the City | Saturday | $17,550,993 | $152,647,258 |
2004 | The Day After Tomorrow | Monday | $17,063,757 | $186,740,799 |
2015 | San Andreas | Sunday | $15,932,001 | $155,190,832 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 31.
Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | Friday | $19,476,894 | $110,500,138 |
2013 | Now You See Me | Friday | $10,061,689 | $117,723,989 |
2013 | After Earth | Friday | $9,840,651 | $60,522,097 |
2002 | The Sum of All Fears | Friday | $9,535,000 | $118,471,320 |
2019 | Rocketman | Friday | $9,170,655 | $96,368,160 |
2019 | MA | Friday | $7,242,140 | $45,896,028 |
2002 | Undercover Brother | Friday | $3,432,000 | $38,230,435 |
2024 | Haikyu!! The Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump (劇場版ハイキュー!! ゴミ捨て場の決戦) | Friday | $1,913,472 | $7,071,622 |
2024 | In a Violent Nature | Friday | $1,026,303 | $4,229,999 |
2025 | J-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in JAPAN: Live Viewing | Saturday | $789,173 | $939,173 |
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 31.
Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
---|---|---|---|
2003 | Finding Nemo | $70,251,710 | $380,529,370 |
2014 | Maleficent | $69,431,298 | $241,407,328 |
2009 | Up | $68,108,790 | $293,004,164 |
2025 | Lilo & Stitch | $61,808,626 | $410,394,353 |
2008 | Sex and the City | $56,848,056 | $152,647,258 |
2015 | San Andreas | $54,588,173 | $155,190,832 |
2019 | Godzilla: King of the Monsters | $47,776,293 | $110,500,138 |
2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | $44,754,615 | $317,101,119 |
2019 | Aladdin | $42,840,544 | $355,559,216 |
2003 | Bruce Almighty | $37,329,480 | $242,704,995 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Fred Allen (1894, died on March 17, 1956 at the age of 61), Don Ameche (1908, died on December 6, 1993 at the age of 85), Barbara Pepper (1915, died on July 18, 1969 at the age of 54), Edna Dore (1921, died on April 11, 2014 at the age of 92), Alida Valli (1921, died on April 22, 2006 at the age of 84), Denholm Elliott (1922, died on October 6, 1992 at the age of 70), Clint Eastwood (1930, turned 95 this year), Elaine Stewart (1930, died on June 27, 2011 at the age of 81), Juan Carlos Copes (1931, died on January 16, 2021 at the age of 89), Jim Hutton (1934, died on June 2, 1979 at the age of 45), Luiz Carlos Miele (1938, died on October 14, 2015 at the age of 77), Peter Yarrow (1938, died on January 7, 2025 at the age of 86), Sharon Gless (1943, turned 82 this year), Joe Namath (1943, turned 82 this year), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945, died on June 10, 1982 at the age of 37), Tom Berenger (1949, turned 76 this year), Gregory Harrison (1950, turned 75 this year), Jack Gilpin (1951, turned 74 this year), Julio Oscar Mechoso (1955, died on November 25, 2017 at the age of 62), Susie Essman (1955, turned 70 this year), Camden Toy (1955, died on December 11, 2023 at the age of 68), Kyle Secor (1957, turned 68 this year), Roma Maffia (1958, turned 67 this year), Chris Elliott (1960, turned 65 this year), Don Harvey (1960, turned 65 this year), Lea Thompson (1961, turned 64 this year), Sebastian Koch (1962, turned 63 this year), Hugh Dillon (1963, turned 62 this year), Brooke Shields (1965, turned 60 this year), Stuart Graham (1967, turned 58 this year), Sandrine Bonnaire (1967, turned 58 this year), Paolo Sorrentino (1970, turned 55 this year), Jon Oigarden (1971, turned 54 this year), Archie Panjabi (1972, turned 53 this year), Karl Geary (1972, turned 53 this year), Alison Pargeter (1972, turned 53 this year), Colin Farrell (1976, turned 49 this year), Eric Christian Olsen (1977, turned 48 this year), Jonathan Tucker (1982, turned 43 this year), Lee Majdoub (1982, turned 43 this year), Ellen Wong (1985, turned 40 this year), Justine Cotsonas (1985, turned 40 this year), Meredith Hagner (1987, turned 38 this year), Justine Lupe (1989, turned 36 this year), Phillipa Soo (1990, turned 35 this year), Farrah Abraham (1991, turned 34 this year), Mette Towley (1996, turned 29 this year)
Died on this day in history: William Castle (1977, at the age of 63), Walter Sparrow (2000, at the age of 73), Jean Stapleton (2013, at the age of 90), Greg Melvill-Smith (2016, at the age of 90), Susan B. Landau (2017, at the age of 90), Michael Ford (2018, at the age of 90), Jim McMullan (2019, at the age of 82), Franco Ravera (2022, at the age of 61), Sergio Calderon (2023, at the age of 77), Martin Starger (2024, at the age of 92)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.