On This Day - May 3
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Friday | $68,858,555 | $408,992,272 |
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | Sunday | $50,319,942 | $459,005,868 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Friday | $40,736,774 | $858,373,000 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Friday | $39,406,872 | $404,652,858 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | Saturday | $37,350,099 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Saturday | $33,161,137 | $202,853,933 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | Saturday | $32,000,629 | $214,949,694 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Sunday | $21,300,461 | $179,883,157 |
| 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War | Thursday | $15,501,270 | $678,815,482 |
| 2003 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie | Saturday | $7,180,657 | $42,734,455 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 3.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | Friday | $68,858,555 | $408,992,272 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Friday | $39,406,872 | $404,652,858 |
| 2019 | The Intruder | Friday | $3,940,875 | $35,388,976 |
| 2019 | Long Shot | Friday | $3,645,044 | $30,316,271 |
| 2019 | UglyDolls | Friday | $2,496,875 | $20,150,241 |
| 2002 | Deuces Wild | Friday | $988,500 | $6,044,618 |
| 2002 | Hollywood Ending | Friday | $661,000 | $4,839,383 |
| 2019 | El Chicano | Friday | $236,402 | $1,400,603 |
| 2013 | Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla | Friday | $18,607 | $173,472 |
| 2019 | Doubles vies | Friday | $7,402 | $704,919 |
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 3.
| Year | Title | Weekend | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Avengers: Age of Ultron | $191,271,109 | $459,005,868 |
| 2013 | Iron Man 3 | $174,144,585 | $408,992,272 |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | $147,383,211 | $858,373,000 |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | $114,844,116 | $404,652,858 |
| 2008 | Iron Man | $102,118,668 | $318,604,126 |
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | $91,608,337 | $202,853,933 |
| 2003 | X-Men 2 | $85,558,731 | $214,949,694 |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | $85,058,003 | $179,883,157 |
| 2003 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie | $17,338,755 | $42,734,455 |
| 2009 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | $15,411,434 | $55,250,026 |
Released Today
Movies that were released today: Ruby’s Choice, The Fall Guy, Tarot, Lost Soulz, I Saw the TV Glow, Thabo and the Rhino Case, Much Ado About Dying, Evil Does Not Exist, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, Wildcat, Mars Express, Dragonkeeper, Adiós Buenos Aires, Who is Stan Smith?, Chief of Station
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Beulah Bondi (1889, died on January 11, 1981 at the age of 91), Walter Slezak (1902, died on April 21, 1983 at the age of 80), Bing Crosby (1903, died on October 14, 1977 at the age of 74), Mary Astor (1906, died on September 25, 1987 at the age of 81), George Gaynes (1917, died on February 15, 2016 at the age of 98), Pete Seeger (1919, died on January 27, 2014 at the age of 94), Lois de Banzie (1930, died on April 3, 2021 at the age of 90), Robert Osborne (1932, died on March 6, 2017 at the age of 84), James Brown (1933, died on December 25, 2006 at the age of 73), Alex Cord (1933, died on August 9, 2021 at the age of 88), Frankie Valli (1934, turns 90 today), Jayant Sawarkar (1936, died on July 24, 2023 at the age of 87), Chris Mulkey (1948, turns 76 today), Ron Canada (1949, turns 75 today), Peter Guinness (1950, turns 74 today), Pia Zadora (1953, turns 71 today), Debra De Liso (1955, turns 69 today), Kevin Kilner (1958, turns 66 today), Ben Elton (1959, turns 65 today), Amy Steel (1960, turns 64 today), Mark Cousins (1965, turns 59 today), Rob Brydon (1965, turns 59 today), Kenny Hotz (1967, turns 57 today), Amy Ryan (1968, turns 56 today), Bobby Cannavale (1970, turns 54 today), Kristin Lehman (1972, turns 52 today), Jennifer Tung (1973, turns 51 today), Joseph Kosinski (1974, turns 50 today), Christina Hendricks (1975, turns 49 today), Dule Hill (1975, turns 49 today), Emily V. Gordon (1979, turns 45 today), Mozhan Marno (1980, turns 44 today), Rebecca Hall (1982, turns 42 today), Danila Kozlovsky (1985, turns 39 today), Meagan Tandy (1985, turns 39 today), Pom Klementieff (1986, turns 38 today), Dominique McElligott (1986, turns 38 today), James Frecheville (1991, turns 33 today), Alexandra Vino (1993, turns 31 today), Jessica Sula (1994, turns 30 today), Zoé De Grand Maison (1995, turns 29 today), Anna Rust (1995, turns 29 today), Noah Munck (1996, turns 28 today), Rachel Zegler (2001, turns 23 today)
Died on this day in history: Tom Tyler (1954, at the age of 50), Karl Freund (1969, at the age of 79), Jerzy Kosinski (1991, at the age of 57), George Murphy (1992, at the age of 89), Jack Weston (1996, at the age of 71), Suzy Parker (2003, at the age of 70), Jackie Cooper (2011, at the age of 88), Ian Sander (2016, at the age of 68), Yumeji Tsukioka (2017, at the age of 94), John Ericson (2020, at the age of 93), Bruce Jay Friedman (2020, at the age of 90), Manobala (2023, at the age of 69), Alessandro D'Alatri (2023, at the age of 68)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.