Domestic Release Schedule for 1978

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1978.

See also: Top 1978 Worldwide - Most Popular 1978

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Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
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January, 1978
During 1978 The Bad News Bears Go To Japan (Wide) Paramount Pictures $14,000,000  
Beyond and Back (Wide) Sunn Classics Pictures $23,800,000  
The Big Fix (Wide) Universal $12,000,000  
The Boys from Brazil (Wide) 20th Century Fox $19,000,000  
The Brink's Job (Wide) Universal $9,400,000  
Caravans (Wide) Universal $1,000,000  
Casey's Shadow (Wide) Columbia $8,000,000  
Coming Home (Wide) United Artists $32,653,000  
Corvette Summer (Wide) MGM $15,500,000  
The Fifth Floor (Wide) Film Ventures International $7,000,000  
Good Guys Wear Black (Wide) American Cinema Releasing $18,300,000  
The Greek Tycoon (Wide) Universal $14,000,000  
House Calls (Wide) Universal $29,000,000  
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Wide) Universal $1,900,000  
Ice Castles (Wide) Columbia $18,000,000  
The Other Side of the Mountain Part II (Wide) Universal $12,000,000  
Same Time, Next Year (Wide) Universal $23,000,000  
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Wide) Universal $12,900,000  
The Swarm (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,000,000  
Thank God It's Friday (Wide) Columbia $7,300,000  
An Unmarried Woman (Wide) 20th Century Fox $24,000,000  
 
January 6 September 30, 1955 (Limited) Universal    
 
January 25 Renaldo and Clara (Limited)    
 
 
January TBD The Foreigner (Limited)    
February, 1978
February 1 Coma (Wide) MGM    
 
February 3 The One and Only (Wide) Paramount Pictures $2,707,679  
 
February 9 The Betsy (Wide) Allied Artists $17,700,000  
 
February 15 The Serpent’s Egg (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
February 17 Rabbit Test (Exclusive) Avco Embassy $90,138  
 
 
February TBD Skateboard (Limited) Universal    
March, 1978
March 3 Death Rage (Limited) S.J. International Pictures    
 
March 8 A Little Night Music (Limited) New World    
 
March 10 The Fury (Wide) 20th Century Fox    
Gray Lady Down (Limited) Universal    
 
March 17 American Hot Wax (Wide) Paramount Pictures $11,000,000  
Crossed Swords (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
 
March 19 Madame Rosa (Limited) Atlantic    
 
March 24 Jungle Holocaust (Limited) United Producers Releasing Organization    
 
April, 1978
Decade 1978 Pretty Baby (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
April 13 F.I.S.T (Wide) United Artists $20,388,920  
 
April 19 Holocaust 2000 (Limited) Embassy    
 
April 20 FM (Limited) Universal    
 
April 28 The Manitou (Limited) Embassy    
May, 1978
May 5 The End (Wide) United Artists $30,354,004  
 
May 18 The Buddy Holly Story (Limited) Columbia $14,363,400  
 
May 26 Big Wednesday (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
 
May TBD One Way or Another (Limited)    
June, 1978
June 9 The Cheap Detective (Wide) Columbia $28,221,552  
Damien: Omen II (Wide) 20th Century Fox $24,000,000  
 
June 16 Grease (Wide) Paramount Pictures $181,813,770 Play
Jaws 2 (Wide) Universal $102,922,376  
 
June 28 Convoy (Wide) United Artists $45,000,000  
Heaven Can Wait (Wide) Paramount Pictures $98,800,000  
July, 1978
July 14 Foul Play (Wide) Paramount Pictures $40,415,179  
 
July 19 International Velvet (Limited) MGM    
 
July 21 Revenge of the Pink Panther (Wide) United Artists $37,337,746  
Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope (Wide, re-release) 20th Century Fox $460,998,007  
Spawn of the Slithis (Limited) Arthur Davis Associates    
 
July 28 Hooper (Wide) Warner Bros. $51,290,536  
National Lampoon's Animal House (Wide) Universal $141,600,000  
August, 1978
August 2 Eyes of Laura Mars (Wide) Columbia $18,900,000  
Interiors (Wide) United Artists $10,432,366  
 
August 3 Piranha (Limited) New World    
 
 
August TBD Girlfriends (Limited) Warner Bros.    
September, 1978
September 13 Days of Heaven (Wide) Paramount Pictures $3,446,749  
 
September 14 Go Tell the Spartans (Limited)    
 
September 15 Up in Smoke (Wide) Paramount Pictures $41,590,893  
 
September 20 Midnight Express (Wide) Columbia $35,000,000  
 
September 29 Death on the Nile (Wide) Paramount Pictures $18,000,000  
Avalanche (Limited)    
October, 1978
October 5 The Norseman (Limited) American International Pictures    
 
October 6 Goin South (Limited) Paramount Pictures    
 
October 8 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (Limited) NAI Entertainment    
Perceval (Limited)    
 
October 17 Halloween (Wide) Compass International $47,274,000  
 
October 24 The Wiz (Wide) Universal $22,000,000  
 
October 25 Comes a Horseman (Wide) United Artists    
 
 
October TBD Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (Limited)    
November, 1978
November 8 Magic (Wide) 20th Century Fox $23,800,000  
Slow Dancing in the Big City (Limited) United Artists $11,335  
 
November 10 Paradise Alley (Wide) 20th Century Fox $8,000,000  
 
November 15 The Lord of the Rings (Limited) United Artists $27,000,000  
 
November 17 Northern Lights (Limited) $9,453  
 
November 22 I Spit on Your Grave (Limited) Jerry Gross Organization    
December, 1978
December 8 The Deer Hunter (Limited) Universal $50,000,000  
 
December 13 The Secret Life of Plants (Wide) Paramount Pictures    
 
December 15 California Suite (Wide) Columbia $42,913,571  
Oliver's Story (Wide) Paramount Pictures    
Superman (Wide) Warner Bros. $134,218,018  
Uncle Joe Shannon (Limited) United Artists $3,697  
 
December 17 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Limited) New Line    
 
December 20 Every Which Way but Loose (Wide) Warner Bros. $104,268,727  
King of the Gypsies (Wide) Paramount Pictures $8,000,000  
 
December 22 Brass Target (Wide) MGM $354,797  
Force 10 from Navarone (Wide) American International Pictures $7,100,000  
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Wide) United Artists $24,946,533  
Moment by Moment (Wide) Universal    
The Ascent (Limited)    
 
December 29 Martin (Limited) Libra Films    
 
 
December TBD Die Sister, Die! (Limited)