On This Day - May 24

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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
2025 Lilo & Stitch Saturday $47,823,374 $423,778,855
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
2025 Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning Saturday $20,311,131 $197,413,515
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

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
2025 Lilo & Stitch $146,016,175 $423,778,855
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
2025 Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning $64,036,428 $197,413,515
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

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 88 this year), Bob Dylan (1941, turns 85 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 81 this year), James Cosmo (1948, turns 78 this year), Roger Deakins (1949, turns 77 this year), Jim Broadbent (1949, turns 77 this year), Jean-Pierre Bacri (1951, died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 69), Sybil Danning (1952, turns 74 this year), Alfred Molina (1953, turns 73 this year), Nell Campbell (1953, turns 73 this year), Doug Jones (1960, turns 66 this year), Kristin Scott Thomas (1960, turns 66 this year), John C. Reilly (1965, turns 61 this year), Eric Cantona (1966, turns 60 this year), Dana Ashbrook (1967, turns 59 this year), Eric Close (1967, turns 59 this year), Heavy D (1967, turns 59 this year), Julie Dretzin (1968, turns 58 this year), Greg Berlanti (1972, turns 54 this year), Dash Mihok (1974, turns 52 this year), Thorbjørn Harr (1974, turns 52 this year), Will Sasso (1975, turns 51 this year), Synnøve Macody Lund (1976, turns 50 this year), Johannes Roberts (1976, turns 50 this year), Bryan Greenberg (1978, turns 48 this year), Jerod Mixon (1981, turns 45 this year), Ricky Mabe (1983, turns 43 this year), Sarah Hagan (1984, turns 42 this year), Deborah Francois (1987, turns 39 this year), Callie Hernandez (1988, turns 38 this year), Brianne Howey (1989, turns 37 this year), Kimberly Crossman (1990, turns 36 this year), Bobby Lockwood (1993, turns 33 this year), Cayden Boyd (1994, turns 32 this year), Daisy Edgar-Jones (1998, turns 28 this year), Charlie Plummer (1999, turns 27 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), Piro Milkani (2025, at the age of 86), Marcel Ophuls (2025, at the age of 97), Alan Yentob (2025, at the age of 78), Susan Brownmiller (2025, at the age of 90)

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