On This Day - May 21
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Record Day
The chart below contains the top 10 movies based on daily domestic revenue recorded on May 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Day | Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith | Saturday | $40,693,760 | $380,270,577 |
| 2011 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | Saturday | $31,921,474 | $241,071,802 |
| 2004 | Shrek 2 | Friday | $28,340,295 | $441,426,807 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Sunday | $21,125,768 | $217,536,138 |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Friday | $20,802,341 | $238,736,787 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | Friday | $18,467,513 | $487,574,671 |
| 2023 | Fast X | Sunday | $16,501,575 | $146,126,015 |
| 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | Saturday | $15,876,962 | $107,509,366 |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Saturday | $14,623,025 | $408,084,349 |
| 2022 | Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | Saturday | $13,801,107 | $411,331,607 |
Record Opening Day
The chart below contains the top movies based on domestic opening day on May 21.
| Year | Title | Day of Week |
Opening Day |
Domestic Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | Friday | $20,802,341 | $238,736,787 |
| 2009 | Terminator Salvation | Thursday | $13,372,491 | $125,322,469 |
| 2010 | MacGruber | Friday | $1,569,025 | $8,525,600 |
| 1980 | Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back | Wednesday | $1,333,305 | $291,738,960 |
| 1999 | The Love Letter | Friday | $810,000 | $8,322,608 |
| 2010 | Kites | Friday | $346,947 | $1,685,269 |
| 2021 | Dream Horse | Friday | $260,429 | $2,913,328 |
| 2021 | Nuevo Orden | Friday | $49,569 | $304,167 |
| 2021 | Final Account | Friday | $46,410 | $308,976 |
| 2021 | The Dry | Friday | $35,825 | $364,397 |
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 21.
| 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 |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | $77,073,388 | $217,536,138 |
| 2010 | Shrek Forever After | $70,838,207 | $238,736,787 |
| 2023 | Fast X | $67,017,410 | $146,126,015 |
| 1999 | Star Wars Ep. I: The Phantom Menace | $64,810,970 | $487,574,671 |
| 2000 | Dinosaur | $38,854,851 | $137,748,063 |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | $38,457,003 | $155,019,340 |
| 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie | $38,155,177 | $107,509,366 |
Born and Died
Born on this day in history: Sam Jaffe (1901, died on January 10, 2000 at the age of 98), Robert Montgomery (1904, died on September 27, 1981 at the age of 77), Lola Lane (1906, died on June 22, 1981 at the age of 75), Dandy Nichols (1907, died on February 6, 1986 at the age of 78), John Paxton (1911, died on January 5, 1985 at the age of 73), Bill Williams (1915, died on September 21, 1992 at the age of 77), Raymond Burr (1917, turned 107 this year), Jeanne Bates (1918, died on November 28, 2007 at the age of 89), Kay Kendall (1927, turned 97 this year), Alice Drummond (1928, died on November 30, 2016 at the age of 88), Dan Wakefield (1932, died on March 13, 2024 at the age of 91), Richard Libertini (1933, died on January 7, 2016 at the age of 82), Gleb Panfilov (1934, died on August 26, 2023 at the age of 89), George Riddle (1937, died on June 2, 2023 at the age of 86), Ross Hagen (1938, died on May 7, 2011 at the age of 72), Nikolai Dostal (1946, died on January 18, 2023 at the age of 76), Jonathan Hyde (1948, turned 76 this year), Will Ryan (1949, died on November 19, 2021 at the age of 72), Mr. T (1952, turned 72 this year), Judge Reinhold (1957, turned 67 this year), Renee Soutendijk (1957, turned 67 this year), Nick Cassavetes (1959, turned 65 this year), Brent Briscoe (1961, died on October 18, 2017 at the age of 56), Josh Richman (1965, turned 59 this year), Lisa Edelstein (1966, turned 58 this year), Taylor Sheridan (1970, turned 54 this year), Brett Tucker (1972, turned 52 this year), Olga Sosnovska (1972, turned 52 this year), Noel Fielding (1973, turned 51 this year), Paolo Montalban (1973, turned 51 this year), Fairuza Balk (1974, turned 50 this year), Eduardo Verastegui (1974, turned 50 this year), Morgan Benoit (1980, turned 44 this year), Ashlie Brillaut (1987, turned 37 this year), Cristina Rodlo (1990, turned 34 this year), Scotty Leavenworth (1990, turned 34 this year), Sarah Ramos (1991, turned 33 this year), Olivia Olson (1992, turned 32 this year), Hutch Dano (1992, turned 32 this year), Lexi Johnson (1992, turned 32 this year), Jonathan Hyde (1997, turned 27 this year), Kyle Red Silverstein (2002, turned 22 this year), Keith L. Williams (2007, turned 17 this year)
Died on this day in history: John Garfield (1952, at the age of 39), Bruce Geller (1978, at the age of 47), Norman Rossington (1999, at the age of 74), John Gielgud (2000, at the age of 96), Howard Morris (2005, at the age of 85), Bill Hunter (2011, at the age of 71), Clint Walker (2018, at the age of 90), Allyn Ann McLerie (2018, at the age of 91), Heddy Honigmann (2022, at the age of 70), Ray Stevenson (2023, at the age of 58), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (2024, at the age of 71)
Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.