On This Day - May 6
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Friday | $90,720,784 | $411,331,607 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Friday | $75,502,161 | $408,084,349 |
| 2012 | The Avengers | Sunday | $57,066,733 | $623,357,910 |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | Saturday | $51,304,539 | $389,813,101 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | Sunday | $39,937,865 | $337,607,351 |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 | Saturday | $38,876,290 | $358,995,815 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Sunday | $36,644,356 | $678,815,482 |
| 2011 | Thor | Friday | $25,481,796 | $181,030,624 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Saturday | $18,409,876 | $133,501,348 |
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | Sunday | $17,838,000 | $202,007,640 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 6.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Friday | $90,720,784 | $411,331,607 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Friday | $75,502,161 | $408,084,349 |
| 2011 | Thor | Friday | $25,481,796 | $181,030,624 |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Friday | $7,147,738 | $47,527,678 |
| 2005 | House of Wax | Friday | $4,852,597 | $32,064,800 |
| 2011 | Something Borrowed | Friday | $4,792,585 | $39,046,489 |
| 2011 | Jumping the Broom | Friday | $4,157,470 | $37,295,394 |
| 2005 | Crash | Friday | $2,820,499 | $55,334,418 |
| 2011 | The Beaver | Friday | $29,866 | $970,816 |
| 2022 | L’evenement | Friday | $10,607 | $181,023 |
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 6.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Avengers | $207,438,708 | $623,357,910 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | $187,420,998 | $411,331,607 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | $179,139,142 | $408,084,349 |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | $151,116,516 | $337,607,351 |
| 2017 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | $146,510,104 | $389,813,101 |
| 2023 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 | $118,414,021 | $358,995,815 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | $114,774,810 | $678,815,482 |
| 2001 | The Mummy Returns | $68,139,035 | $202,007,640 |
| 2011 | Thor | $65,723,338 | $181,030,624 |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | $47,743,273 | $133,501,348 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Max Ophüls (1902, died on March 26, 1957 at the age of 54), Bill Quinn (1912, died on April 29, 1994 at the age of 81), Stewart Granger (1913, died on August 16, 1993 at the age of 80), Orson Welles (1915, died on October 10, 1985 at the age of 70), Elizabeth Sellars (1921, died on December 30, 2019 at the age of 98), Edward M. Abroms (1935, died on February 13, 2018 at the age of 82), Anton Furst (1944, died on November 24, 1991 at the age of 47), Jimmie Dale Gilmore (1945, turned 80 this year), Richard Eyer (1945, turned 80 this year), Alan Dale (1947, turned 78 this year), Ben Masters (1947, died on January 11, 2023 at the age of 75), Richard Cox (1948, turned 77 this year), Gregg Henry (1952, turned 73 this year), Christian Clavier (1952, turned 73 this year), Lynn Whitfield (1953, turned 72 this year), Anne Parillaud (1960, turned 65 this year), Roma Downey (1960, turned 65 this year), Julianne Phillips (1960, turned 65 this year), George Clooney (1961, turned 64 this year), Pippa Haywood (1961, turned 64 this year), Clay O’Brien (1961, turned 64 this year), Carlos Lauchu (1961, turned 64 this year), Lars Mikkelsen (1964, turned 61 this year), Dana Hill (1964, turned 61 this year), John Ennis (1964, turned 61 this year), Leslie Hope (1965, turned 60 this year), Stephen Gaghan (1965, turned 60 this year), Kavan Smith (1970, turned 55 this year), Geneva Carr (1971, turned 54 this year), Kyle Cassie (1976, turned 49 this year), Stacey Oristano (1979, turned 46 this year), Lindsay Pulsipher (1982, turned 43 this year), Gabourey Sidibe (1983, turned 42 this year), Adrianne Palicki (1983, turned 42 this year), Bresha Webb (1984, turned 41 this year), Jaime Winstone (1985, turned 40 this year), Tyler Hynes (1986, turned 39 this year), Shahana Goswami (1986, turned 39 this year), Sasheer Zamata (1986, turned 39 this year), Meek Mill (1987, turned 38 this year), Freddie Boath (1991, turned 34 this year), Naomi Scott (1993, turned 32 this year), Noah Galvin (1994, turned 31 this year), Tiera Skovbye (1995, turned 30 this year), Dominic Scott Kay (1996, turned 29 this year), Emily Alyn Lind (2002, turned 23 this year), Sadie Sandler (2006, turned 19 this year)
Died on this day in history: Monty Woolley (1963, at the age of 74), Wilfrid Hyde-White (1991, at the age of 87), Marlene Dietrich (1992, at the age of 90), Ann Todd (1993, at the age of 86), Jorge Martínez de Hoyos (1997, at the age of 76), Virginia Capers (2004, at the age of 78), Curtis Harrington (2007, at the age of 80), George Lindsey (2012, at the age of 83), Leslie A. Pope (2020, at the age of 65), Ian Gelder (2024, at the age of 74)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.