| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | On Golden Pond | $8,189,539 | $5,602,328 | 68.4% | $2,587,211 | 31.6% | 966 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Making Love | $2,188,000 | $1,695,000 | 77.5% | $493,000 | 22.5% | 380 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Shoot the Moon | $2,177,061 | $1,687,061 | 77.5% | $490,000 | 22.5% | 585 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Chariots of Fire | $2,112,220 | $1,636,721 | 77.5% | $475,499 | 22.5% | 293 | 23 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $1,720,274 | $1,410,000 | 82% | $310,274 | 18% | 650 | 38 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Arthur | $1,204,252 | $933,000 | 77.5% | $271,252 | 22.5% | 575 | 33 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Absence of Malice | $1,160,234 | $927,000 | 79.9% | $233,234 | 20.1% | 600 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Taps | $924,745 | $700,000 | 75.7% | $224,745 | 24.3% | 650 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Reds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Leo and Loree | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Barbarosa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cannery Row | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Night Crossing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
