| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Porky's | $7,109,725 | $5,280,637 | 74.3% | $1,829,088 | 25.7% | 1,474 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | On Golden Pond | $2,966,145 | $1,694,235 | 57.1% | $1,271,910 | 42.9% | 744 | 21 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Chariots of Fire | $2,861,132 | $2,085,480 | 72.9% | $775,652 | 27.1% | 805 | 31 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | If You Could See What I Hear | $2,647,570 | $2,408,000 | 91% | $239,570 | 9% | 524 | 1 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Some Kind of Hero | $2,564,874 | $1,927,116 | 75.1% | $637,758 | 24.9% | 700 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Victor/Victoria | $2,160,651 | $1,624,868 | 75.2% | $535,783 | 24.8% | 606 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | $2,111,000 | $1,798,879 | 85.2% | $312,121 | 14.8% | 233 | 1 | Group 1 International Distribution | - | false |
| 8 | Deathtrap | $1,439,515 | $1,119,752 | 77.8% | $319,763 | 22.2% | 601 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Quest for Fire | $1,362,580 | $956,555 | 70.2% | $406,025 | 29.8% | 426 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | $1,134,476 | $851,275 | 75% | $283,201 | 25% | 613 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Silent Rage | $634,646 | $634,646 | 100% | $0 | - | 651 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | I Ought to Be in Pictures | $363,277 | $278,163 | 76.6% | $85,114 | 23.4% | 258 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Cat People | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
