On This Day - May 1
Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 1.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Friday | $84,424,532 | $459,005,868 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Friday | $34,433,831 | $179,883,157 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Wednesday | $25,251,991 | $858,373,000 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Tuesday | $23,426,108 | $678,815,482 |
| 2011 | Fast Five | Sunday | $21,863,945 | $210,031,325 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Sunday | $13,819,408 | $364,001,123 |
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Saturday | $10,590,972 | $63,075,011 |
| 2004 | Mean Girls | Saturday | $10,160,404 | $86,047,227 |
| 1999 | Entrapment | Saturday | $8,715,000 | $87,707,396 |
| 2004 | Man on Fire | Saturday | $6,717,077 | $77,906,816 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 1.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Friday | $84,424,532 | $459,005,868 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Friday | $34,433,831 | $179,883,157 |
| 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | Friday | $5,807,072 | $55,250,026 |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Friday | $2,605,000 | $21,567,853 |
| 1998 | Les Miserables | Friday | $1,640,000 | $13,887,945 |
| 1998 | Black Dog | Friday | $1,400,000 | $12,857,351 |
| 2019 | Like Arrows | Wednesday | $367,967 | $817,990 |
| 2023 | Corazón de Padre | Monday | $351,457 | $447,912 |
| 2009 | Battle for Terra | Friday | $252,579 | $1,647,083 |
| 2015 | Far from the Madding Crowd | Friday | $54,087 | $12,236,500 |
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 1.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $191,271,109 | $459,005,868 |
| 2011 | Fast Five | $86,198,765 | $210,031,325 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | $85,058,003 | $179,883,157 |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | $43,714,706 | $364,001,123 |
| 2010 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $32,902,299 | $63,075,011 |
| 2004 | Mean Girls | $24,432,195 | $86,047,227 |
| 2005 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | $21,103,203 | $51,019,112 |
| 1999 | Entrapment | $20,145,595 | $87,707,396 |
| 2022 | The Bad Guys | $16,237,070 | $97,459,240 |
| 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | $15,411,434 | $55,250,026 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2026: Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Henry Koster (1905, died on September 21, 1988 at the age of 83), Glenn Ford (1916, died on August 30, 2006 at the age of 90), Danielle Darrieux (1917, died on October 17, 2017 at the age of 100), Daniel O’Herlihy (1919, died on February 17, 2005 at the age of 85), John Meillon (1934, died on August 11, 1989 at the age of 55), Judy Collins (1939, turned 85 this year), Stephen Macht (1942, turned 82 this year), John Woo (1946, turned 78 this year), Joanna Lumley (1946, turned 78 this year), Douglas Barr (1949, turned 75 this year), Dann Florek (1950, turned 74 this year), John Diehl (1950, turned 74 this year), Ray Parker, Jr. (1954, turned 70 this year), Catherine Frot (1956, turned 68 this year), Tim Sale (1956, died on June 16, 2022 at the age of 66), Uberto Pasolini (1957, turned 67 this year), Yasmina Reza (1959, turned 65 this year), Maia Morgenstern (1962, turned 62 this year), Joanna P. Adler (1964, turned 60 this year), Scott Coffey (1964, turned 60 this year), Charlie Schlatter (1966, turned 58 this year), Anne Fletcher (1966, turned 58 this year), Tim McGraw (1967, turned 57 this year), Wes Anderson (1969, turned 55 this year), Dave Willis (1970, turned 54 this year), Amira Casar (1971, turned 53 this year), Julie Benz (1972, turned 52 this year), Bailey Chase (1972, turned 52 this year), Andrea Lowe (1975, turned 49 this year), Violante Placido (1976, turned 48 this year), Darius McCrary (1976, turned 48 this year), James Murray (1976, turned 48 this year), James Badge Dale (1978, turned 46 this year), Ana Claudia Talancon (1980, turned 44 this year), Eero Milonoff (1980, turned 44 this year), Jamie Dornan (1982, turned 42 this year), Kerry Bishe (1984, turned 40 this year), Sacha Dhawan (1984, turned 40 this year), Henry Zebrowski (1984, turned 40 this year), Mikkel Boe Folsgaard (1984, turned 40 this year), Drew Sidora (1985, turned 39 this year), Cassie Jaye (1986, turned 38 this year), Chris Coy (1986, turned 38 this year), Nicholas Braun (1988, turned 36 this year), Anushka Sharma (1988, turned 36 this year), Caitlin Stasey (1990, turned 34 this year), Madeline Brewer (1992, turned 32 this year)
Died on this day in history: Paolo Stoppa (1988, at the age of 81), Richard Thorpe (1991, at the age of 95), Nelson Gidding (2004, at the age of 84), Bernard Archard (2008, at the age of 91), Assi Dayan (2014, at the age of 68), Grace Lee Whitney (2015, at the age of 85), Sun Yueh (2018, at the age of 87), Samuel Lloyd (2020, at the age of 56), Olympia Dukakis (2021, at the age of 89), Tom Hickey (2021, at the age of 76), Gordon Lightfoot (2023, at the age of 84), Eileen Saki (2023, at the age of 79)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.