Domestic Release Schedule for 1983

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1983.

See also: Top 1983 Worldwide - Most Popular 1983

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January, 1983
During 1983 The Beyond (Wide) $126,387  
Getting It On (Wide) $975,414  
Joysticks (Wide) $3,952,000  
Tough Enough (Wide) 20th Century Fox $2,433,722  
 
January 7 Enigma (1983) (Wide)    
 
January 18 Lianna (Wide) $1,500,000  
 
January 21 The House on Sorority Row (Wide) Artists Releasing Corporation $8,184,633  
Independence Day (Wide) Warner Bros. $151,462  
Muddy River (Wide)    
Threshold (Wide)    
The Year of Living Dangerously (Wide) MGM $10,278,575  
 
January 29 Growing Up (Limited)    
 
January 30 Night of the Shooting Stars (Limited) United Artists    
February, 1983
February 4 The Entity (Wide) 20th Century Fox $13,277,558  
Videodrome (Wide) Universal $2,120,439  
Without a Trace (Wide) 20th Century Fox $9,632,062  
 
February 11 Let's Spend the Night Together (Wide) Embassy $3,282,561  
 
February 18 The King of Comedy (Wide) 20th Century Fox $2,536,242  
Local Hero (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,767,363  
The Lords of Discipline (Wide) Paramount Pictures $11,721,041  
Lovesick (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,143,618  
The Pirates of Penzance (Wide) Universal $694,497  
The Sting II (Wide) Universal $6,347,072  
Table for Five (Wide) Warner Bros. $2,400,000  
Twilight Time (Wide)    
Madman (Limited)    
 
February 25 Betrayal (Wide) 20th Century Fox    
The Girl with Red Hair (Wide)    
One Dark Night (Limited) Comworld    
 
February 27 Private Life (Wide)    
March, 1983
March 4 Baby It's You (Wide) Paramount Pictures $1,312,473  
Britannia Hospital (Wide) United Artists    
My Tutor (Wide) Crown $22,587,000  
Tender Mercies (Wide) Universal $8,443,124  
Vigilante (Wide) Artists Releasing Corporation $5,091,888  
Carnival Magic (Limited) Krypton Films    
Curtains (Limited) Jensen Farley Pictures    
 
March 11 10 to Midnight (Wide) Cannon $7,175,592  
Say Amen, Somebody (Wide)    
Trenchcoat (Wide) Walt Disney $4,304,286  
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (Limited) Comworld    
The Sword in the Stone (Limited, re-release) Walt Disney $22,182,353  
 
March 18 The Grey Fox (Wide)    
High Road to China (Wide) Warner Bros. $28,416,459  
Twice Upon a Time (Wide)    
 
March 23 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Limited) New Yorker $19,858  
 
March 25 Bad Boys (Wide) Universal $9,200,000  
The Black Stallion Returns (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $9,851,679  
Eddie Macon's Run (Wide) Universal $1,300,000  
Max Dugan Returns (Wide) 20th Century Fox $17,613,720  
The Outsiders (Wide) Warner Bros. $25,697,647  
Spring Break (Wide) Sony Pictures $24,071,666  
 
March 31 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Wide) Universal $14,929,552  
April, 1983
April 1 Heart Like a Wheel (Wide)    
Man, Woman and Child (Wide) Paramount Pictures $2,300,000  
Screwballs (Wide) $2,082,000  
To Begin Again (Wide)    
Deadly Eyes (Limited) Warner Bros.    
 
April 8 The Flight of the Eagle (Wide)    
Losin' It (Wide) $1,246,141  
 
April 15 Better Late Than Never (Wide) Warner Bros. $24,164  
The Evil Dead (Wide) New Line $2,400,000  
Flashdance (Wide) Paramount Pictures $90,463,574  
Lone Wolf McQuade (Wide) Orion Pictures $12,232,628  
Rock & Rule (Wide)    
 
April 22 Exposed (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $1,352,083  
La traviata (Wide) Universal $3,594,000  
Duel (Limited) Universal    
 
April 29 Blue Skies Again (Wide) Warner Bros. $46,603  
The Draughtsman’s Contract (Wide)    
The Hunger (Wide) MGM $4,800,000  
Koyaanisqatsi (Wide)    
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Wide) Walt Disney $5,656,087  
Valley Girl (Wide) Atlantic $16,800,000  
May, 1983
May 6 Doctor Detroit (Wide) Universal $10,400,000  
Still Smokin (Wide) Paramount Pictures $15,543,000  
Alsino and the Condor (Limited)    
 
May 13 Blue Thunder (Wide) Sony Pictures $42,313,354  
Breathless (Wide) Orion Pictures $19,910,002  
 
May 20 Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,478,265  
 
May 25 Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi (Wide) 20th Century Fox $316,465,003  
 
May 27 Chained Heat (Wide) Jensen Farley Pictures $6,149,983  
June, 1983
June 3 The Man with Two Brains (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,353,438  
Psycho II (Wide) Universal $32,000,000  
The Return of Martin Guerre (Wide) European International $2,522,881  
WarGames (Wide) MGM $74,433,837  
 
June 8 Trading Places (Wide) Paramount Pictures $90,400,000  
 
June 10 Octopussy (Wide) MGM $67,900,000  
 
June 17 L'Etoile du Nord (Wide)    
Fanny and Alexander (Wide) Embassy $4,971,340  
Superman III (Wide) Warner Bros. $59,950,623  
 
June 22 The Survivors (Wide) Sony Pictures $14,000,000  
 
June 24 Porky's II: The Next Day (Wide) 20th Century Fox $33,759,266  
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Wide) Warner Bros. $29,500,000  
Yellowbeard (Wide) Orion Pictures $4,300,000  
July, 1983
July 1 Stroker Ace (Wide) Universal $13,000,000  
 
July 15 Deadly Force (Wide) Embassy $294,316  
Puberty Blues (Wide) Universal $237,000  
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $184,925,486  
Staying Alive (Wide) Paramount Pictures $63,841,474  
Zelig (Wide) Orion Pictures $11,798,616  
 
July 22 Class (Wide) Orion Pictures $21,667,789  
Jaws 3-D (Wide) Universal $42,245,180  
Mr. Mom (Wide) 20th Century Fox $64,800,000  
 
July 29 Krull (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,519,460  
National Lampoon's Vacation (Wide) Warner Bros. $61,400,000  
Pauline at the Beach (Wide)    
Private School (Wide) Universal $14,049,540  
 
 
July TBD Space Raiders (Limited) Millennium Films    
August, 1983
August 5 Get Crazy (Wide) $1,168,364  
Risky Business (Wide) Warner Bros. $63,541,777  
The Star Chamber (Wide) 20th Century Fox $5,600,000  
Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island (Limited)    
 
August 12 Cujo (Wide) Warner Bros. $21,156,152  
Curse of the Pink Panther (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $3,374,312  
The Man Who Wasn't There (Wide) USA Films $2,315,505  
Smokey and the Bandit III (Wide) Universal $7,000,000  
 
August 19 The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (Wide) MGM $7,035,618  
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (Wide) Embassy $909,000  
Easy Money (Wide) Orion Pictures $29,309,766  
The Golden Seal (Wide) Samuel Goldwyn Films $6,609,870  
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (Wide) Universal $5,301,085  
Yor: Hunter From the Future (Wide) Sony Pictures $2,810,199  
 
August 26 Daniel (Wide) Paramount Pictures $484,068  
Fire and Ice (Wide) 20th Century Fox $760,883  
Hercules (Wide) Cannon $9,466,655  
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Wide) Universal $2,306,560  
Young Warriors (Wide) Cannon $238,534  
September, 1983
September 2 Deathstalker (Wide) New World $8,890,685  
Lonely Hearts (Wide) Samuel Goldwyn Films $683,534  
Mortuary (Wide) Artists Releasing Corporation $1,722,738  
Nightmares (Wide) Universal $6,670,680  
Stryker (Wide) New World $887,080  
Turkey Shoot (Wide) New World $1,233,657  
 
September 7 Revenge of the Ninja (Wide) Cannon $10,325,628  
 
September 9 Boarding School (Wide) Atlantic $131,396  
 
September 15 Heat and Dust (Wide) Universal $915,264  
 
September 16 Strange Invaders (Wide) Orion Pictures $1,362,303  
Who Dares Wins (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $2,108,197  
 
September 21 Cross Creek (Wide) Universal $205,970  
Educating Rita (Wide) Sony Pictures $14,688,000  
 
September 23 Eddie and the Cruisers (Wide) Embassy $4,685,097  
Last Plane Out (Wide) New World $115,475  
Pieces (Wide) Film Ventures International $1,198,346  
 
September 28 The Big Chill (Wide) Sony Pictures $56,077,501  
 
September 30 Brainstorm (Wide) MGM $8,921,050  
Hanna K. (Wide) Universal $110,000  
The Honorary Consul (Wide) Paramount Pictures $4,800,000  
The Lonely Lady (Wide) Universal $1,223,220  
Rear Window (Limited, re-release) USA Films $27,559,601  
October, 1983
October 7 Never Cry Wolf (Wide) Walt Disney $27,668,764  
Never Say Never Again (Wide) Warner Bros. $55,500,000  
The Prey (Wide) New World $49,677  
Romantic Comedy (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $5,140,538  
Rumble Fish (Wide) Universal $2,500,000  
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (Wide) Atlantic $11,234,220  
 
October 14 Possession (Wide) Limelight International $1,113,538  
Streamers (Wide)    
 
October 21 All the Right Moves (Wide) 20th Century Fox $17,200,000  
The Dead Zone (Wide) Paramount Pictures $20,766,000  
The Osterman Weekend (Wide) 20th Century Fox $6,500,000  
The Right Stuff (Wide) Warner Bros. $21,500,000  
Under Fire (Wide) Orion Pictures $5,696,391  
 
October 28 Going Berserk (Wide) Universal $234,950  
Richard Pryor Here and Now (Wide) Sony Pictures $16,156,776  
The Wicked Lady (Wide) Cannon $589,308  
Vertigo (Limited, re-release) Paramount Pictures $3,200,000  
 
 
October TBD Dark Circle (Limited) New Yorker    
November, 1983
November 4 Deal of the Century (Wide) Warner Bros. $10,400,000  
Experience Preferred (Wide) Samuel Goldwyn Films $822,650  
Running Brave (Wide) Walt Disney $1,204,595  
Testament (Wide) Paramount Pictures $1,537,122  
 
November 10 Star 80 (Wide) Warner Bros. $6,472,990  
 
November 18 Amityville 3-D (Wide) Orion Pictures $6,333,135  
A Christmas Story (Wide) MGM $20,640,209  
Cross Country (Wide) New World $113,880  
Nate and Hayes (Wide) Paramount Pictures $1,643,022  
A Night in Heaven (Wide) 20th Century Fox $5,563,663  
Yentl (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $39,012,241  
The Being (Limited)    
Sleepaway Camp (Limited) United Film Distribution Co.    
 
November 23 Of Unknown Origin (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,080,470  
Terms of Endearment (Wide) Paramount Pictures $108,423,489  
December, 1983
December 6 The Dresser (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,310,748  
 
December 9 Christine (Wide) Sony Pictures $21,200,000  
Scarface (Wide) Universal $45,227,398  
Sudden Impact (Wide) Warner Bros. $67,642,693  
 
December 14 Silkwood (Wide) 20th Century Fox $35,615,609  
 
December 16 D.C. Cab (Wide) Universal $16,134,000  
Gorky Park (Wide) Orion Pictures $15,900,000  
The Keep (Wide) Paramount Pictures $3,661,757  
The Man Who Loved Women (Wide) Sony Pictures $11,000,000  
The Rescuers (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $48,775,599  
Reuben, Reuben (Wide)    
To Be or Not to Be (Wide) 20th Century Fox $13,030,214  
Two of a Kind (Wide) 20th Century Fox $23,700,000  
Uncommon Valor (Wide) Paramount Pictures $27,900,000  
The Plague Dogs (Limited) Embassy    
 
December 23 Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (Limited) $161,634