| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $12,160,291 | $8,034,766 | 66.1% | $4,125,525 | 33.9% | 1,484 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Some Kind of Hero | $7,063,041 | $5,631,293 | 79.7% | $1,431,748 | 20.3% | 975 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | On Golden Pond | $6,165,054 | $3,805,370 | 61.7% | $2,359,684 | 38.3% | 990 | 18 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Silent Rage | $5,006,917 | $3,693,117 | 73.8% | $1,313,800 | 26.2% | 1,458 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Chariots of Fire | $4,820,366 | $3,280,675 | 68.1% | $1,539,691 | 31.9% | 553 | 28 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $3,165,639 | $2,288,353 | 72.3% | $877,286 | 27.7% | 851 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Quest for Fire | $2,848,806 | $1,994,565 | 70% | $854,241 | 30% | 393 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Deathtrap | $2,828,682 | $2,061,709 | 72.9% | $766,973 | 27.1% | 511 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Victor/Victoria | $2,760,841 | $2,102,208 | 76.1% | $658,633 | 23.9% | 611 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 10 | Cat People | $2,409,883 | $1,617,636 | 67.1% | $792,247 | 32.9% | 600 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | $1,986,969 | $1,435,557 | 72.2% | $551,412 | 27.8% | 660 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | A Little Sex | $1,397,401 | $1,030,070 | 73.7% | $367,331 | 26.3% | 500 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Penitentiary II | $883,861 | $662,896 | 75% | $220,965 | 25% | 198 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Amateur | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Personal Best | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
