| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Conan the Barbarian | $13,426,024 | $9,603,139 | 71.5% | $3,822,885 | 28.5% | 1,395 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Porky's | $3,906,250 | $2,860,834 | 73.2% | $1,045,416 | 26.8% | 1,164 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | $2,724,820 | $2,197,000 | 80.6% | $527,820 | 19.4% | 660 | 4 | Group 1 International Distribution | - | false |
| 4 | Wrong Is Right | $2,133,696 | $1,412,646 | 66.2% | $721,050 | 33.8% | 934 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Chariots of Fire | $1,939,720 | $1,378,032 | 71% | $561,688 | 29% | 747 | 34 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Paradise | $1,624,036 | $1,451,632 | 89.4% | $172,404 | 10.6% | 962 | 2 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Victor/Victoria | $1,445,775 | $1,185,550 | 82% | $260,225 | 18% | 559 | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | On Golden Pond | $1,414,915 | $718,469 | 50.8% | $696,446 | 49.2% | 420 | 24 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | If You Could See What I Hear | $1,324,877 | $990,155 | 74.7% | $334,722 | 25.3% | 489 | 4 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Deathtrap | $780,133 | $572,352 | 73.4% | $207,781 | 26.6% | 463 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $601,673 | $462,796 | 76.9% | $138,877 | 23.1% | 438 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Quest for Fire | $594,294 | $379,301 | 63.8% | $214,993 | 36.2% | 296 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Home Movies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | Partners | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Hollywood Knights | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
