| Release Date | Movie | Distributor | Domestic
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| January, 1981 |
| January 1 |
My Dinner with Andre (Wide) |
New Yorker |
$15,063 |
|
|
Scream (Limited) |
Cal-Com |
|
|
| |
| During 1981 |
Death Hunt (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$5,000,000 |
|
|
The Devil and Max Devlin (Wide) |
Walt Disney |
$16,000,000 |
|
|
Fort Apache, The Bronx (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$29,200,000 |
|
|
The Private Eyes (Wide) |
New World |
$18,000,000 |
|
|
Roar (Wide) |
|
$2,110,050 |
|
|
Scanners (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$14,200,000 |
|
| |
| January 16 |
Fear No Evil (Limited) |
Embassy |
|
|
| |
| January 23 |
Napoléon (Wide, re-release) |
|
$2,645,504 |
|
| |
| January 30 |
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Wide) |
Universal |
$20,259,000 |
|
| February, 1981 |
| February 1 |
Subway Riders (Limited) |
Hep Pictures |
|
|
| |
| February 8 |
Spetters (Limited) |
Samuel Goldwyn Films |
|
|
| |
| February 11 |
The Last Metro (Wide) |
United Artists |
$3,000,000 |
|
|
Sphinx (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$2,000,000 |
|
|
My Bloody Valentine (Limited) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
| |
| February 13 |
American Pop (Wide) |
Columbia |
$6,000,000 |
|
|
The Dogs of War (Wide) |
MGM |
|
|
|
Eyewitness (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$6,400,000 |
|
|
Sunday Lovers (Wide) |
MGM |
|
|
| |
| |
| February TBD |
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (Limited) |
American Cinema Releasing |
|
|
| March, 1981 |
| March 6 |
All Night Long (Wide) |
Universal |
$7,800,000 |
|
|
On the Right Track (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$13,000,000 |
|
| |
| March 13 |
Back Roads (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$11,809,387 |
|
|
The Funhouse (Wide) |
Universal |
$7,000,000 |
|
|
Modern Romance (Limited) |
Columbia |
$29,137 |
|
| |
| March 15 |
Confidence (1981) (Wide) |
New Yorker |
|
|
| |
| March 18 |
The Wobblies (Limited) |
First Run Features |
$12,232 |
|
| |
| March 20 |
Amy (Wide) |
Walt Disney |
|
|
|
Cutter’s Way (Wide) |
United Artists |
|
|
|
The Final Conflict (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$20,471,000 |
|
|
Kelly (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
|
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$12,200,000 |
|
| |
| March 27 |
Eyes of a Stranger (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$546,724 |
|
|
Thief (Wide) |
United Artists |
$4,300,000 |
|
| |
| |
| March TBD |
Pick-up Summer (Limited) |
|
$28,756 |
|
| April, 1981 |
| April 3 |
Atlantic City (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$10,000,000 |
|
| |
| April 10 |
Excalibur (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$34,200,000 |
|
|
From Mao to Mozart (Wide) |
United Artists |
|
|
|
Going Ape! (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
|
The Howling (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$17,985,000 |
|
|
Nighthawks (Wide) |
Universal |
$14,600,000 |
|
|
Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope (Wide, re-release) |
20th Century Fox |
$460,998,007 |
|
|
This is Elvis (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$429,146 |
|
|
Knightriders (Limited) |
United Film Distribution Co. |
|
|
| |
| April 17 |
Caveman (Wide) |
United Artists |
$15,965,000 |
|
|
Improper Channels (Exclusive) |
Crown International |
|
|
| |
| April 24 |
Beyond the Reef (Wide) |
Universal |
$547,525 |
|
|
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (Wide) |
Universal |
$115,679 |
|
|
The Hand (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$2,000,000 |
|
|
Second-Hand Hearts (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
|
Ms. 45 (Limited) |
Rochelle Films |
|
|
| |
| April 28 |
Bloody Birthday (Limited) |
Lange |
|
|
| |
| April 30 |
Friday the 13th Part 2 (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$21,722,776 |
|
| May, 1981 |
| May 1 |
Graduation Day (Wide) |
IFI Scope |
$23,894,000 |
|
|
Hard Country (Wide) |
Universal |
|
|
|
The Jazz Singer (Wide) |
Universal |
$27,118,000 |
|
|
King of the Mountain (Wide) |
Universal |
$958,637 |
|
| |
| May 8 |
The Burning (Limited) |
Filmways Pictures |
|
|
|
Shoot the Sun Down (Limited) |
|
|
|
| |
| May 15 |
Happy Birthday To Me (Wide) |
Columbia |
$10,609,514 |
|
|
The Fan (Limited) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
| |
| During 1981 |
Take This Job and Shove It (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$17,569,000 |
|
| |
| May 22 |
Bustin' Loose (Wide) |
Universal |
$31,261,000 |
|
|
The Four Seasons (Wide) |
Universal |
$42,488,161 |
|
|
Glen or Glenda (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
|
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (Wide) |
Universal |
$13,400,000 |
|
|
Outland (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$20,000,000 |
|
| |
| May 29 |
Polyester (Limited) |
New Line |
|
|
| June, 1981 |
| June 5 |
Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (Wide) |
Columbia |
$37,000,000 |
|
|
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$14,000,000 |
|
|
Final Exam (Limited) |
|
|
|
|
The Sea Wolves (Limited) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
| |
| June 12 |
Clash of the Titans (Wide) |
MGM |
$30,000,000 |
|
|
Herbie Goes Bananas (Wide, re-release) |
Walt Disney |
$17,000,000 |
|
|
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (Wide, re-release) |
|
$28,000,000 |
|
|
History of the World: Part I (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$31,672,000 |
|
|
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$225,686,079 |
|
|
The World's Greatest Athlete (Limited, re-release) |
|
$22,583,370 |
|
| |
| June 19 |
The Cannonball Run (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$57,498,710 |
|
|
Herbie Rides Again (Wide, re-release) |
|
$31,765,098 |
|
|
Superman II (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$108,185,706 |
|
|
Swiss Family Robinson (Wide, re-release) |
|
$40,400,000 |
|
| |
| June 26 |
Dragonslayer (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$6,000,000 |
|
|
For Your Eyes Only (Wide) |
Universal |
$54,800,000 |
|
|
Force: Five (Wide) |
American Cinema Releasing |
$8,000,000 |
|
|
The Great Muppet Caper (Wide) |
Universal |
$31,206,251 |
|
|
Stripes (Wide) |
Columbia |
$85,300,000 |
|
| |
| |
| June TBD |
Demonoid (Limited) |
|
|
|
| July, 1981 |
| July 1 |
S.O.B. (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$14,867,086 |
|
| |
| July 10 |
Escape from New York (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$25,244,700 |
|
|
The Fox and the Hound (Wide) |
Walt Disney |
$43,899,231 |
|
| |
| July 17 |
Arthur (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$81,464,486 |
|
|
Endless Love (Wide) |
Universal |
$33,000,000 |
|
| |
| July 23 |
Gas (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
|
|
| |
| July 24 |
Blow Out (Wide) |
Filmways Pictures |
$13,747,234 |
|
|
Eye of the Needle (Wide) |
United Artists |
$17,583,000 |
|
|
Nobody's Perfekt (Wide) |
Columbia |
$995 |
|
|
Tarzan, The Ape Man (Wide) |
MGM |
$36,565,000 |
|
|
Wolfen (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$11,000,000 |
|
|
Zorro, The Gay Blade (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$10,000,000 |
|
|
Comin' at Ya! (Exclusive) |
Filmways Pictures |
$6,704,127 |
|
| |
| July 31 |
Star Wars Ep. V: The Empire Strikes Back (Wide, re-release) |
20th Century Fox |
$291,738,960 |
|
|
Under the Rainbow (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$18,826,490 |
|
|
Victory (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$10,853,000 |
|
| August, 1981 |
| August 7 |
Condorman (Wide) |
Walt Disney |
|
|
|
An Eye for an Eye (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$7,496,681 |
|
|
Heavy Metal (Wide) |
Columbia |
$19,571,091 |
|
|
Student Bodies (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$1,582,148 |
|
|
Hell Night (Exclusive) |
Compass International |
$2,300,000 |
|
|
Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (Exclusive) |
Comworld |
$19,225 |
|
| |
| August 14 |
Deadly Blessing (Wide) |
United Artists |
$2,800,000 |
|
|
The Blue Lagoon (Limited, re-release) |
Universal |
$47,923,795 |
|
|
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (Limited) |
20th Century Fox |
$221,898 |
|
| |
| August 19 |
Prince of the City (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$9,000,000 |
|
| |
| August 21 |
An American Werewolf in London (Wide) |
Universal |
$31,973,249 |
|
|
Comin' at Ya! (Wide) |
Filmways Pictures |
$6,704,127 |
|
|
First Monday in October (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$12,000,000 |
|
|
Honky Tonk Freeway (Wide) |
Universal |
$939,423 |
|
|
Heartland (Limited) |
Levitt-Pickman |
|
|
| |
| August 28 |
Body Heat (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$24,058,000 |
|
|
Gallipoli (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$5,732,587 |
|
|
Private Lessons (Wide) |
Jensen Farley Pictures |
$18,064,851 |
|
| September, 1981 |
| September 17 |
Tim (Wide) |
Satori |
|
|
| |
| September 18 |
Continental Divide (Wide) |
Universal |
$15,578,000 |
|
|
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Wide) |
United Artists |
$22,600,000 |
|
|
Mommie Dearest (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$19,032,000 |
|
|
Raggedy Man (Wide) |
Universal |
$11,000,000 |
|
|
Cannibals in the Streets (Limited) |
Almi |
|
|
| |
| September 23 |
Only When I Laugh (Wide) |
Columbia |
$25,782,304 |
|
| |
| September 25 |
Carbon Copy (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$8,400,000 |
|
|
Chariots of Fire (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$61,558,162 |
|
|
So Fine (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$10,000,000 |
|
|
True Confessions (Wide) |
United Artists |
$12,200,000 |
|
|
Southern Comfort (Exclusive) |
20th Century Fox |
$2,939,174 |
|
| |
| |
| September TBD |
St. Helens (Limited) |
|
|
|
| October, 1981 |
| October 2 |
Paternity (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$18,838,000 |
|
|
Zoot Suit (Wide) |
Universal |
$380,302 |
|
| |
| October 9 |
Rich and Famous (Wide) |
MGM |
$13,000,000 |
|
|
Tattoo (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$860,472 |
|
|
Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (Limited) |
Film Ventures International |
|
|
|
Full Moon High (Limited) |
Filmways Pictures |
|
|
| |
| October 16 |
All the Marbles (Wide) |
MGM |
$4,300,000 |
|
|
Caligula (Wide, re-release) |
|
$23,400,000 |
|
| |
| October 23 |
The Boat is Full (Wide) |
Castle Hill Productions |
$1,016 |
|
|
Enter the Ninja (Wide) |
Cannon |
|
|
|
Silence of the North (Wide) |
Universal |
$344,837 |
|
|
Nightmare (Limited) |
|
|
|
|
The Pit (Limited) |
New World |
$560 |
|
| |
| October 25 |
Quartet (Limited) |
New World |
|
|
| |
| October 30 |
Halloween II (Wide) |
Universal |
$25,533,818 |
|
|
Looker (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$3,281,232 |
|
|
Saturday The 14th (Limited) |
New World |
|
|
| |
| October 31 |
Shock Treatment (Limited) |
20th Century Fox |
|
|
| |
| October TBD |
Galaxy of Terror (Limited) |
New World |
|
|
| November, 1981 |
| November 6 |
Time Bandits (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$37,400,000 |
|
| |
| November 13 |
Dead and Buried (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
$216,166 |
|
|
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (Wide) |
Universal |
$2,104,164 |
|
| |
| November 19 |
Absence of Malice (Wide) |
Columbia |
$33,312,129 |
|
|
Road Games (Wide) |
Avco Embassy |
|
|
| |
| November 20 |
Man of Iron (Wide) |
United Artists |
|
|
|
Ragtime (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$17,468,158 |
|
|
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (Limited) |
Warner Bros. |
|
|
| |
| November 27 |
Just Before Dawn (Limited) |
Picturmedia |
|
|
| December, 1981 |
| December 2 |
Whose Life is it Anyway? (Wide) |
MGM |
$6,100,000 |
|
| |
| December 4 |
On Golden Pond (Wide) |
Universal |
$119,285,432 |
|
|
Reds (Wide) |
Paramount Pictures |
$50,000,000 |
|
| |
| December 9 |
Taps (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$35,856,053 |
|
|
Signs of Life (Limited) |
|
|
|
| |
| December 11 |
Buddy Buddy (Wide) |
United Artists |
$5,299,037 |
|
|
Pennies from Heaven (Wide) |
MGM |
$6,200,000 |
|
|
Rollover (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$10,217,873 |
|
|
Four Friends (Limited) |
Filmways Pictures |
|
|
| |
| December 18 |
Cinderella (Wide, re-release) |
Walt Disney |
$85,000,000 |
|
|
Ghost Story (Wide) |
Universal |
$16,202,210 |
|
|
Heartbeeps (Wide) |
Universal |
$6,000,000 |
|
|
Neighbors (Wide) |
Columbia |
$29,916,207 |
|
|
Sharky's Machine (Wide) |
Warner Bros. |
$32,984,898 |
|
| |
| December 25 |
Modern Problems (Wide) |
20th Century Fox |
$24,474,312 |
|
