| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $11,522,705 | $7,623,988 | 66.2% | $3,898,717 | 33.8% | 1,148 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $8,114,466 | $6,197,068 | 76.4% | $1,917,398 | 23.6% | 1,277 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | On Golden Pond | $6,117,653 | $4,116,609 | 67.3% | $2,001,044 | 32.7% | 883 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Deathtrap | $3,045,202 | $2,238,977 | 73.5% | $806,225 | 26.5% | 341 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Missing | $2,363,142 | $1,890,514 | 80% | $472,628 | 20% | 632 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Chariots of Fire | $1,826,591 | $1,826,591 | 100% | $0 | - | 435 | 26 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Absence of Malice | $736,711 | $541,247 | 73.5% | $195,464 | 26.5% | 443 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Amateur | $699,150 | $522,235 | 74.7% | $176,915 | 25.3% | 351 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Making Love | $693,087 | $479,768 | 69.2% | $213,319 | 30.8% | 320 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Evil Under the Sun | $637,244 | $637,244 | 100% | $0 | - | 283 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Arthur | $559,968 | $559,968 | 100% | $0 | - | 395 | 36 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Victor/Victoria | $231,872 | $139,634 | 60.2% | $92,238 | 39.8% | 3 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Quest for Fire | - | $2,171,303 | - | - | - | 223 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Nijinsky | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mad Max | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Filmways Pictures | - | false |
| - | Death Wish II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Filmways Pictures | - | false |
| - | Raiders of the Lost Ark | - | - | - | - | - | - | 41 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Little Darlings | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Shoot the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
