| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $5,752,396 | $4,333,570 | 75.3% | $1,418,826 | 24.7% | 1,414 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | $4,870,289 | $4,100,886 | 84.2% | $769,403 | 15.8% | 660 | 2 | Group 1 International Distribution | - | false |
| 3 | Partners | $2,765,200 | $2,318,801 | 83.9% | $446,399 | 16.1% | 877 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Chariots of Fire | $2,311,394 | $1,668,771 | 72.2% | $642,623 | 27.8% | 798 | 32 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | If You Could See What I Hear | $2,243,894 | $1,784,289 | 79.5% | $459,605 | 20.5% | 558 | 2 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | On Golden Pond | $2,016,268 | $1,554,184 | 77.1% | $462,084 | 22.9% | 953 | 22 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Victor/Victoria | $1,536,747 | $1,380,000 | 89.8% | $156,747 | 10.2% | 559 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Some Kind of Hero | $1,262,514 | $1,262,514 | 100% | $0 | - | 666 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $1,211,783 | $889,437 | 73.4% | $322,346 | 26.6% | 663 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Deathtrap | $1,065,424 | $802,113 | 75.3% | $263,311 | 24.7% | 517 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Quest for Fire | $901,863 | $636,244 | 70.6% | $265,619 | 29.4% | 340 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | $173,102 | $173,102 | 100% | $0 | - | 181 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Missing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
