On This Day - April 5

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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
2025 A Minecraft Movie Saturday $59,409,839 $424,087,780
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 $196,805,338

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
2025 A Minecraft Movie $162,753,003 $424,087,780
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 $196,805,338
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

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, turns 96 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, turns 90 this year), David Winters (1939, died on April 23, 2019 at the age of 80), Gianfranco Barra (1940, died on March 23, 2025 at the age of 84), Michael Moriarty (1941, turns 85 this year), Peter Greenaway (1942, turns 84 this year), Max Gail (1943, turns 83 this year), Willeke van Ammelrooy (1944, turns 82 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, turns 80 this year), Carlos Carrasco (1948, turns 78 this year), Larry Franco (1949, turns 77 this year), Miki Manojlovic (1950, turns 76 this year), Mitch Pileggi (1952, turns 74 this year), Charlotte de Turckheim (1955, turns 71 this year), Marty Thomas (1958, died on January 30, 2019 at the age of 60), Lisa Zane (1961, turns 65 this year), Andrea Arnold (1961, turns 65 this year), Christopher Reid (1964, turns 62 this year), Gary Hershberger (1964, turns 62 this year), Thea Gill (1970, turns 56 this year), Valerie Bonneton (1970, turns 56 this year), Wendy Braun (1970, turns 56 this year), Victoria Hamilton (1971, turns 55 this year), Junko Takeuchi (1972, turns 54 this year), Yasuhiro Takemoto (1972, died on July 18, 2019 at the age of 47), Krista Allen (1972, turns 54 this year), Alex Enberg (1972, turns 54 this year), Elodie Bouchez (1973, turns 53 this year), Pharrell Williams (1973, turns 53 this year), Jason Done (1973, turns 53 this year), Sterling K. Brown (1976, turns 50 this year), Zak Bagans (1977, turns 49 this year), Josh Boone (1979, turns 47 this year), Tom Riley (1981, turns 45 this year), Tom Riley (1981, turns 45 this year), Hayley Atwell (1982, turns 44 this year), Marshall Allman (1984, turns 42 this year), Anna Sophia Berglund (1986, turns 40 this year), Fanny Sidney (1987, turns 39 this year), Lily James (1989, turns 37 this year), Kiki Sukezane (1989, turns 37 this year), Freddie Fox (1989, turns 37 this year), Haruma Miura (1990, died on July 18, 2020 at the age of 30), Nadia Alexander (1994, turns 32 this year), Zofia Wichlacz (1995, turns 31 this year), Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (2000, turns 26 this year), Robbie Tucker (2001, turns 25 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), David Siegal (2025, at the age of 89)

Note: The charts on this page are not adjusted for inflation.