| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $11,417,883 | $8,082,295 | 70.8% | $3,335,588 | 29.2% | 1,532 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Some Kind of Hero | $6,050,217 | $4,676,826 | 77.3% | $1,373,391 | 22.7% | 975 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | On Golden Pond | $5,506,488 | $2,702,573 | 49.1% | $2,803,915 | 50.9% | 836 | 19 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Chariots of Fire | $4,919,708 | $3,434,399 | 69.8% | $1,485,309 | 30.2% | 753 | 29 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Victor/Victoria | $3,316,379 | $2,382,802 | 71.8% | $933,577 | 28.2% | 611 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | Silent Rage | $3,272,984 | $2,435,843 | 74.4% | $837,141 | 25.6% | 1,314 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Deathtrap | $2,583,186 | $1,926,404 | 74.6% | $656,782 | 25.4% | 572 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Cat People | $2,438,454 | $1,502,216 | 61.6% | $936,238 | 38.4% | 570 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Quest for Fire | $2,316,530 | $1,671,891 | 72.2% | $644,639 | 27.8% | 416 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $1,532,993 | $1,524,204 | 99.4% | $8,789 | 0.6% | 646 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | $1,168,720 | $864,497 | 74% | $304,223 | 26% | 428 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | A Little Sex | $972,975 | $972,975 | 100% | $0 | - | 550 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Penitentiary II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
