| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $10,824,119 | $7,780,693 | 71.9% | $3,043,426 | 28.1% | 1,277 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | On Golden Pond | $7,062,347 | $4,800,000 | 68% | $2,262,347 | 32% | 1,015 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Missing | $2,841,065 | $2,300,000 | 81% | $541,065 | 19% | 733 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Chariots of Fire | $2,775,098 | $2,019,964 | 72.8% | $755,134 | 27.2% | 447 | 25 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Evil Under the Sun | $1,782,043 | $1,200,000 | 67.3% | $582,043 | 32.7% | 564 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Death Wish II | $1,334,000 | $1,334,000 | 100% | $0 | - | 354 | 4 | Filmways Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $1,243,988 | $1,243,988 | 100% | $0 | - | 633 | 40 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Making Love | $1,114,264 | $807,225 | 72.4% | $307,039 | 27.6% | 379 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Arthur | $856,056 | $617,815 | 72.2% | $238,241 | 27.8% | 449 | 35 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Absence of Malice | $855,228 | $652,467 | 76.3% | $202,761 | 23.7% | 480 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Shoot the Moon | $764,366 | $764,366 | 100% | $0 | - | 355 | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Taps | $578,669 | $578,669 | 100% | $0 | - | 543 | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Amateur | - | $1,052,963 | - | - | - | 437 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Personal Best | - | $549,878 | - | - | - | 142 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
