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 |
Future Releases
Movies to be released on this date in the future: 2024: The Image of You, Gasoline Rainbow, Three Promises, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Poolman, Stay with Us, Force of Nature: The Dry 2, A Prince, Not Another Church Movie, The Last Stop in Yuma County
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, turns 91 this year), Françoise Fabian (1933, turns 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, turns 86 this year), Taurean Blacque (1940, died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 82), David Clennon (1943, turns 81 this year), Jim Abrahams (1944, turns 80 this year), David Huffman (1945, died on February 27, 1985 at the age of 39), Maureen Lipman (1946, turns 78 this year), Donovan Leitch (1946, turns 78 this year), Marion Ramsey (1947, died on January 7, 2021 at the age of 73), Meg Foster (1948, turns 76 this year), Joseph Ruben (1950, turns 74 this year), Mike Hagerty (1954, turns 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, turns 68 this year), Alex Jennings (1957, turns 67 this year), Bruce Penhall (1957, turns 67 this year), Victoria Rowell (1959, turns 65 this year), Bono (1960, turns 64 this year), Richard Graham (1960, turns 64 this year), Johanna ter Steege (1961, turns 63 this year), Rich Moore (1963, turns 61 this year), Darryl M. Bell (1963, turns 61 this year), Emmanuelle Devos (1964, turns 60 this year), Linda Evangelista (1965, turns 59 this year), Tracy Tweed (1965, turns 59 this year), David Mackenzie (1966, turns 58 this year), Jason Brooks (1966, turns 58 this year), Wade Dominguez (1966, died on August 26, 1998 at the age of 32), Jon Ronson (1967, turns 57 this year), Erik Palladino (1968, turns 56 this year), Adrian Scarborough (1968, turns 56 this year), Judson Mills (1969, turns 55 this year), Rebecca Root (1969, turns 55 this year), Dallas Roberts (1970, turns 54 this year), Gina Philips (1970, turns 54 this year), Sally Phillips (1970, turns 54 this year), Leslie Stefanson (1971, turns 53 this year), Adriano Giannini (1971, turns 53 this year), Cary Guffey (1972, turns 52 this year), Julie Nathanson (1973, turns 51 this year), Lesli Margherita (1973, turns 51 this year), Catherine McCord (1974, turns 50 this year), Andrea Anders (1975, turns 49 this year), Anna Maxwell Martin (1977, turns 47 this year), Todd Lowe (1977, turns 47 this year), Hugo Silva (1977, turns 47 this year), Kenan Thompson (1978, turns 46 this year), Corri English (1978, turns 46 this year), Madeleine Sami (1980, turns 44 this year), Nicky Whelan (1981, turns 43 this year), Hrishita Bhatt (1981, turns 43 this year), Fred Berger (1981, turns 43 this year), Ramses Jimenez (1983, turns 41 this year), Odette Annable (1985, turns 39 this year), Tuncay Gunes (1985, turns 39 this year), Erika Fong (1986, turns 38 this year), Miriam Stein (1988, turns 36 this year), Lindsey Shaw (1989, turns 35 this year), Gabrielle Walsh (1989, turns 35 this year), Lauren Potter (1990, turns 34 this year), Bea Santos (1990, turns 34 this year), Hong-Chi Lee (1990, turns 34 this year), Halston Sage (1993, turns 31 this year), Spencer Fox (1993, turns 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.