On This Day - April 5
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on April 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Saturday | $34,666,864 | $259,746,958 |
| 2015 | Furious 7 | Sunday | $33,153,120 | $353,007,020 |
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Wednesday | $31,702,735 | $574,934,330 |
| 2019 | Shazam! | Friday | $20,351,441 | $140,371,656 |
| 2009 | Fast & Furious | Sunday | $15,695,635 | $155,064,265 |
| 2013 | Evil Dead | Friday | $11,899,350 | $54,239,856 |
| 2019 | Pet Sematary | Friday | $9,920,210 | $54,724,696 |
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | Sunday | $9,498,145 | $198,351,526 |
| 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | Friday | $8,457,258 | $196,350,016 |
| 2014 | Noah | Saturday | $7,237,551 | $101,200,044 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on April 5.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie | Wednesday | $31,702,735 | $574,934,330 |
| 2019 | Shazam! | Friday | $20,351,441 | $140,371,656 |
| 2013 | Evil Dead | Friday | $11,899,350 | $54,239,856 |
| 2019 | Pet Sematary | Friday | $9,920,210 | $54,724,696 |
| 2002 | High Crimes | Friday | $4,729,000 | $41,543,207 |
| 2024 | Monkey Man | Friday | $4,182,135 | $25,116,955 |
| 2024 | The First Omen | Friday | $3,343,581 | $20,092,802 |
| 2023 | AIR | Wednesday | $3,294,826 | $52,460,106 |
| 2002 | National Lampoon’s Van Wilder | Friday | $2,698,000 | $21,305,259 |
| 2007 | The Reaping | Thursday | $1,933,315 | $25,126,214 |
Record Weekend
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on domestic revenue recorded on a weekend where Friday, Saturday or Sunday was April 5.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Furious 7 | $147,187,040 | $353,007,020 |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | $95,023,721 | $259,746,958 |
| 2009 | Fast & Furious | $70,950,500 | $155,064,265 |
| 2019 | Shazam! | $53,505,326 | $140,371,656 |
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | $32,609,165 | $198,351,526 |
| 2024 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | $31,203,359 | $196,350,016 |
| 2015 | Home | $27,011,303 | $177,397,510 |
| 2013 | Evil Dead | $25,775,847 | $54,239,856 |
| 2019 | Pet Sematary | $24,502,775 | $54,724,696 |
| 2013 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | $20,875,389 | $122,523,060 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Walter Huston (1883, died on April 7, 1950 at the age of 67), Spencer Tracy (1900, died on June 10, 1967 at the age of 67), Melvyn Douglas (1901, died on August 4, 1981 at the age of 80), Curt Bois (1901, died on December 25, 1991 at the age of 90), Bette Davis (1908, died on October 6, 1989 at the age of 81), Albert R. Broccoli (1909, died on June 27, 1996 at the age of 87), Gregory Peck (1916, died on June 12, 2003 at the age of 87), Michael V. Gazzo (1923, died on February 14, 1995 at the age of 71), Roger Corman (1926, died on May 9, 2024 at the age of 98), Nigel Hawthorne (1929, died on December 26, 2001 at the age of 72), Marietta Marich (1930, died on September 28, 2017 at the age of 87), Pierre Lhomme (1930, died on July 5, 2019 at the age of 89), Mary Costa (1930, turned 94 this year), Frank Gorshin (1933, died on May 17, 2005 at the age of 72), Giovanni Cianfriglia (1935, died on October 30, 2024 at the age of 89), Glenn Jordan (1936, turned 88 this year), David Winters (1939, died on April 23, 2019 at the age of 80), Michael Moriarty (1941, turned 83 this year), Peter Greenaway (1942, turned 82 this year), Max Gail (1943, turned 81 this year), Willeke van Ammelrooy (1944, turned 80 this year), Steve Carver (1945, died on January 8, 2020 at the age of 74), Björn Granath (1946, died on February 5, 2017 at the age of 70), Jane Asher (1946, turned 78 this year), Carlos Carrasco (1948, turned 76 this year), Larry Franco (1949, turned 75 this year), Miki Manojlovic (1950, turned 74 this year), Mitch Pileggi (1952, turned 72 this year), Charlotte de Turckheim (1955, turned 69 this year), Marty Thomas (1958, died on January 30, 2019 at the age of 60), Lisa Zane (1961, turned 63 this year), Andrea Arnold (1961, turned 63 this year), Christopher Reid (1964, turned 60 this year), Gary Hershberger (1964, turned 60 this year), Thea Gill (1970, turned 54 this year), Valerie Bonneton (1970, turned 54 this year), Wendy Braun (1970, turned 54 this year), Victoria Hamilton (1971, turned 53 this year), Junko Takeuchi (1972, turned 52 this year), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972, died on July 18, 2019 at the age of 47), Krista Allen (1972, turned 52 this year), Alex Enberg (1972, turned 52 this year), Elodie Bouchez (1973, turned 51 this year), Pharrell Williams (1973, turned 51 this year), Jason Done (1973, turned 51 this year), Sterling K. Brown (1976, turned 48 this year), Zak Bagans (1977, turned 47 this year), Josh Boone (1979, turned 45 this year), Tom Riley (1981, turned 43 this year), Mitch Pileggi (1981, turned 43 this year), Hayley Atwell (1982, turned 42 this year), Marshall Allman (1984, turned 40 this year), Anna Sophia Berglund (1986, turned 38 this year), Fanny Sidney (1987, turned 37 this year), Lily James (1989, turned 35 this year), Kiki Sukezane (1989, turned 35 this year), Freddie Fox (1989, turned 35 this year), Haruma Miura (1990, died on July 18, 2020 at the age of 30), Nadia Alexander (1994, turned 30 this year), Zofia Wichlacz (1995, turned 29 this year), Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (2000, turned 24 this year), Robbie Tucker (2001, turned 23 this year)
Died on this day in history: Brian Donlevy (1972, at the age of 71), Howard Hughes (1976, at the age of 70), Alf Kjellin (1988, at the age of 68), Kurt Cobain (1994, at the age of 27), Charlton Heston (2008, at the age of 84), John Pinette (2014, at the age of 50), Richard A. Dysart (2015, at the age of 86), Isao Takahata (2018, at the age of 82), John Quarmby (2019, at the age of 89), Lee Fierro (2020, at the age of 91), Shirley Douglas (2020, at the age of 86), George Ogilvie (2020, at the age of 89), Paul Ritter (2021, at the age of 89), Jimmy Wang Yu (2022, at the age of 78), Bill Butler (2023, at the age of 101)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.