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
2025 Clown in a Cornfield Friday $1,687,881 $7,251,799
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
2025 Fight or Flight Friday $1,000,730 $3,522,025
2025 Shadow Force Friday $726,503 $3,933,484
2025 Friendship Friday $227,367 $16,198,905

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 $161,538,025
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 $203,530,343

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 91 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 85 this year), Diana Berriman (1941, turned 84 this year), Leonard Engelman (1941, died on August 1, 2024 at the age of 83), Emile Ardolino (1943, died on November 20, 1993 at the age of 50), Candice Bergen (1946, turned 79 this year), Anthony Higgins (1947, turned 78 this year), D.J. "Bishop" Rogers (1948, died on August 22, 2020 at the age of 72), Billy Joel (1949, turned 76 this year), Amy Hill (1953, turned 72 this year), Dennie Gordon (1953, turned 72 this year), Kevin Peter Hall (1955, died on April 10, 1991 at the age of 35), Gabriel Beristain (1955, turned 70 this year), Wendy Crewson (1956, turned 69 this year), Tessa Peake-Jones (1957, turned 68 this year), Kristian Levring (1957, turned 68 this year), Chuck Russell (1958, turned 67 this year), Lorena Gale (1958, turned 67 this year), Ulrich Matthes (1959, turned 66 this year), John Corbett (1961, turned 64 this year), Sean McNamara (1962, turned 63 this year), Valeriy Todorovskiy (1962, turned 63 this year), Gary Daniels (1963, turned 62 this year), Ron Miles (1963, died on March 8, 2022 at the age of 58), Peter M. Lenkov (1964, turned 61 this year), Fedor Bondarchuk (1967, turned 58 this year), Tuffy Questell (1968, turned 57 this year), Hudson Leick (1969, turned 56 this year), Joe Carnahan (1969, turned 56 this year), Travis Milloy (1969, turned 56 this year), Anthony Molinari (1974, turned 51 this year), Chris Diamantopoulos (1975, turned 50 this year), Juan Antonio Bayona (1975, turned 50 this year), Niki Spiridakos (1975, turned 50 this year), Karl Thaning (1977, turned 48 this year), Daniel Franzese (1978, turned 47 this year), Rosario Dawson (1979, turned 46 this year), Sean Nelson (1980, turned 45 this year), Signe Egholm Olsen (1980, turned 45 this year), Oliver Trevena (1981, turned 44 this year), Rachel Boston (1982, turned 43 this year), Ryuhei Matsuda (1983, turned 42 this year), Michael Roark (1983, turned 42 this year), Tinsley Grimes (1984, turned 41 this year), Audrina Patridge (1985, turned 40 this year), Chris Zylka (1985, turned 40 this year), Grace Gummer (1986, turned 39 this year), Vijay Deverakonda (1990, turned 35 this year), Noah Centineo (1996, turned 29 this year), Mary Mouser (1996, turned 29 this year), Cree Cicchino (2002, turned 23 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), Greg Cannom (2025, at the age of 73)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.