| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $11,720,971 | $8,602,473 | 73.4% | $3,118,498 | 26.6% | 1,159 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | On Golden Pond | $8,115,342 | $5,480,000 | 67.5% | $2,635,342 | 32.5% | 900 | 17 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $5,988,549 | $4,594,443 | 76.7% | $1,394,106 | 23.3% | 1,235 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Chariots of Fire | $3,710,558 | $1,815,532 | 48.9% | $1,895,026 | 51.1% | 422 | 27 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | $2,682,066 | $2,170,397 | 80.9% | $511,669 | 19.1% | 662 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Quest for Fire | $2,618,564 | $1,970,013 | 75.2% | $648,551 | 24.8% | 250 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Deathtrap | $2,607,191 | $2,053,565 | 78.8% | $553,626 | 21.2% | 333 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Absence of Malice | $514,406 | $514,406 | 100% | $0 | - | 435 | 19 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Amateur | $286,955 | $286,955 | 100% | $0 | - | 192 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Making Love | $266,776 | $266,776 | 100% | $0 | - | 232 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Victor/Victoria | $196,920 | $129,882 | 66% | $67,038 | 34% | 3 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Personal Best | - | $724,028 | - | - | - | 236 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Serial | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Evil Under the Sun | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Arthur | - | - | - | - | - | - | 37 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
