On This Day - May 10
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 10.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Sunday | $22,678,911 | $459,005,868 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Saturday | $21,374,629 | $318,604,126 |
| 2009 | Star Trek | Sunday | $21,061,701 | $257,730,019 |
| 2019 | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | Friday | $20,575,704 | $144,105,346 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Friday | $19,906,574 | $404,652,858 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Friday | $19,713,832 | $408,992,272 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | Friday | $19,412,782 | $144,840,419 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | Saturday | $17,803,950 | $150,086,800 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | Saturday | $17,108,345 | $214,949,694 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Friday | $16,190,479 | $858,373,000 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 10.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | Friday | $20,575,704 | $144,105,346 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | Friday | $19,412,782 | $144,840,419 |
| 2019 | The Hustle | Friday | $3,997,560 | $35,417,038 |
| 2002 | The New Guy | Friday | $3,309,226 | $28,972,187 |
| 2019 | Poms | Friday | $1,497,688 | $13,631,124 |
| 2013 | Peeples | Friday | $1,193,566 | $9,177,065 |
| 2019 | Tolkien | Friday | $827,108 | $4,535,154 |
| 2019 | Student of the Year 2 | Friday | $138,229 | $778,566 |
| 2019 | The Biggest Little Farm | Friday | $56,354 | $4,367,816 |
| 2013 | No One Lives | Friday | $18,078 | $75,121 |
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 10.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Star Trek | $79,204,289 | $257,730,019 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $77,746,929 | $459,005,868 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $72,525,615 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $71,417,527 | $404,652,858 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $63,299,904 | $858,373,000 |
| 2019 | Pokémon: Detective Pikachu | $54,365,242 | $144,105,346 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | $51,190,629 | $318,604,126 |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby | $50,085,184 | $144,840,419 |
| 2014 | Neighbors | $49,033,915 | $150,086,800 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | $41,152,375 | $140,464,664 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Max Steiner (1888, died on December 28, 1971 at the age of 83), Clarence Brown (1890, died on August 17, 1987 at the age of 97), Fred Astaire (1899, died on June 22, 1987 at the age of 88), David O. Selznick (1902, died on June 22, 1965 at the age of 63), Anatole Litvak (1902, died on December 15, 1974 at the age of 72), Charles McGraw (1914, died on July 30, 1980 at the age of 66), Nancy Walker (1922, died on March 25, 1992 at the age of 69), George Coe (1929, died on July 18, 2015 at the age of 86), John Pearson (1930, died on November 13, 2021 at the age of 91), Ettore Scola (1931, died on January 19, 2016 at the age of 84), Bingo O'Malley (1933, died on June 2, 2019 at the age of 86), Jean Becker (1933, turned 91 this year), Françoise Fabian (1933, turned 91 this year), Robert Sampson (1933, died on January 18, 2020 at the age of 86), Pat Gorman (1933, died on October 9, 2018 at the age of 85), Arthur Kopit (1937, died on April 3, 2021 at the age of 83), Marina Vlady (1938, turned 86 this year), Taurean Blacque (1940, died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 82), David Clennon (1943, turned 81 this year), Jim Abrahams (1944, turned 80 this year), David Huffman (1945, died on February 27, 1985 at the age of 39), Maureen Lipman (1946, turned 78 this year), Donovan Leitch (1946, turned 78 this year), Marion Ramsey (1947, died on January 7, 2021 at the age of 73), Meg Foster (1948, turned 76 this year), Joseph Ruben (1950, turned 74 this year), Mike Hagerty (1954, turned 70 this year), Mike Haggerty (1954, died on April 29, 2022 at the age of 67), Larry Flash Jenkins (1955, died on April 25, 2019 at the age of 63), Paige O'Hara (1956, turned 68 this year), Alex Jennings (1957, turned 67 this year), Bruce Penhall (1957, turned 67 this year), Victoria Rowell (1959, turned 65 this year), Bono (1960, turned 64 this year), Richard Graham (1960, turned 64 this year), Johanna ter Steege (1961, turned 63 this year), Rich Moore (1963, turned 61 this year), Darryl M. Bell (1963, turned 61 this year), Emmanuelle Devos (1964, turned 60 this year), Linda Evangelista (1965, turned 59 this year), Tracy Tweed (1965, turned 59 this year), David Mackenzie (1966, turned 58 this year), Jason Brooks (1966, turned 58 this year), Wade Dominguez (1966, died on August 26, 1998 at the age of 32), Jon Ronson (1967, turned 57 this year), Erik Palladino (1968, turned 56 this year), Adrian Scarborough (1968, turned 56 this year), Judson Mills (1969, turned 55 this year), Rebecca Root (1969, turned 55 this year), Dallas Roberts (1970, turned 54 this year), Gina Philips (1970, turned 54 this year), Sally Phillips (1970, turned 54 this year), Leslie Stefanson (1971, turned 53 this year), Adriano Giannini (1971, turned 53 this year), Cary Guffey (1972, turned 52 this year), Julie Nathanson (1973, turned 51 this year), Lesli Margherita (1973, turned 51 this year), Catherine McCord (1974, turned 50 this year), Andrea Anders (1975, turned 49 this year), Anna Maxwell Martin (1977, turned 47 this year), Todd Lowe (1977, turned 47 this year), Hugo Silva (1977, turned 47 this year), Kenan Thompson (1978, turned 46 this year), Corri English (1978, turned 46 this year), Madeleine Sami (1980, turned 44 this year), Nicky Whelan (1981, turned 43 this year), Hrishita Bhatt (1981, turned 43 this year), Fred Berger (1981, turned 43 this year), Ramses Jimenez (1983, turned 41 this year), Odette Annable (1985, turned 39 this year), Tuncay Gunes (1985, turned 39 this year), Erika Fong (1986, turned 38 this year), Miriam Stein (1988, turned 36 this year), Lindsey Shaw (1989, turned 35 this year), Gabrielle Walsh (1989, turned 35 this year), Lauren Potter (1990, turned 34 this year), Bea Santos (1990, turned 34 this year), Hong-Chi Lee (1990, turned 34 this year), Halston Sage (1993, turned 31 this year), Spencer Fox (1993, turned 31 this year)
Died on this day in history: Joan Crawford (1977, at the age of 74), Joan Crawford (1977, at the age of 74), Craig Stevens (2000, at the age of 81), Yves Robert (2002, at the age of 81), Val Guest (2006, at the age of 94), Gunther Kaufmann (2012, at the age of 64), Norman Lloyd (2021, at the age of 106), Enrico Oldoini (2023, at the age of 77)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.