On This Day - May 22
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Saturday | $44,797,042 | $441,426,807 |
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Sunday | $34,212,468 | $380,270,577 |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Saturday | $28,890,587 | $238,736,787 |
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Thursday | $25,041,072 | $317,101,119 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Saturday | $24,414,123 | $485,557,546 |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Sunday | $23,369,935 | $241,071,802 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Friday | $15,568,708 | $177,243,721 |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation | Friday | $14,813,113 | $125,322,469 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | Friday | $12,502,990 | $136,314,294 |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Tuesday | $12,401,246 | $324,591,735 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 22.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Thursday | $25,041,072 | $317,101,119 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | Friday | $15,568,708 | $177,243,721 |
| 2015 | Tomorrowland | Friday | $9,722,075 | $93,436,322 |
| 2015 | Poltergeist | Friday | $9,347,332 | $47,425,125 |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Wednesday | $8,358,094 | $180,981,886 |
| 2009 | Dance Flick | Friday | $3,926,444 | $25,794,018 |
| 1981 | Bustin' Loose | Friday | $1,253,824 | $31,261,000 |
| 1998 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Friday | $1,135,000 | $10,680,275 |
| 1981 | The Four Seasons | Friday | $971,396 | $42,488,161 |
| 1981 | Outland | Friday | $697,000 | $20,000,000 |
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 22.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | $108,435,841 | $380,270,577 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | $108,037,878 | $441,426,807 |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $90,151,958 | $241,071,802 |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | $70,838,207 | $238,736,787 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | $64,810,970 | $485,557,546 |
| 2009 | Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian | $54,173,286 | $177,243,721 |
| 1998 | Godzilla | $44,047,541 | $136,314,294 |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation | $42,558,390 | $125,322,469 |
| 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | $38,155,177 | $107,509,366 |
| 2015 | Tomorrowland | $33,028,165 | $93,436,322 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Untitled Star Wars Movie, The Mandalorian & Grogu
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Laurence Olivier (1907, died on July 11, 1989 at the age of 82), Michael Constantine (1927, turns 97 this year), Susan Strasberg (1938, turns 86 this year), Frank Converse (1938, turns 86 this year), John Nolan (1938, turns 86 this year), Paul Winfield (1939, died on March 7, 2004 at the age of 64), Michael Sarrazin (1940, died on April 17, 2011 at the age of 70), Jack Kehler (1946, died on May 7, 2022 at the age of 75), Bernie Taupin (1950, turns 74 this year), Gary Sweet (1957, turns 67 this year), Gary Kasper (1958, turns 66 this year), Linda Emond (1959, turns 65 this year), Hideaki Anno (1960, turns 64 this year), Ann Cusack (1961, turns 63 this year), Michael Kostroff (1961, turns 63 this year), James Lorinz (1964, turns 60 this year), Mark Christopher Lawrence (1964, turns 60 this year), Grant Albrecht (1966, turns 58 this year), Brooke Smith (1967, turns 57 this year), Brooke Smith (1967, turns 57 this year), Michael Kelly (1969, turns 55 this year), Brody Stevens (1970, died on February 22, 2019 at the age of 48), Naomi Campbell (1970, turns 54 this year), Max Brooks (1972, turns 52 this year), Alison Eastwood (1972, turns 52 this year), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (1973, turns 51 this year), Sean Gunn (1974, turns 50 this year), A.J. Langer (1974, turns 50 this year), Noa Tishby (1977, turns 47 this year), Ginnifer Goodwin (1978, turns 46 this year), J.D. Williams (1978, turns 46 this year), Maggie Q (1979, turns 45 this year), Nazanin Boniadi (1980, turns 44 this year), Lucy Gordon (1980, turns 44 this year), Karoline Herfurth (1984, turns 40 this year), Tao Okamoto (1985, turns 39 this year), Molly Ephraim (1986, turns 38 this year), Heida Reed (1988, turns 36 this year), Lexy Panterra (1989, turns 35 this year), Alexandra Dowling (1990, turns 34 this year), Anna Baryshnikov (1992, turns 32 this year), Judah Lewis (2001, turns 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Margaret Rutherford (1972, at the age of 80), John Marley (1984, at the age of 76), Robert Flemying (1995, at the age of 83), John Derek (1998, at the age of 71), Whitman Mayo (2001, at the age of 70), Janet Carroll (2012, at the age of 101), Dina Merrill (2017, at the age of 93), Philip Roth (2018, at the age of 85), Heather Chasen (2020, at the age of 92), Denise Cronenberg (2020, at the age of 81), Leon Ichaso (2023, at the age of 74)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.