Weekend Domestic Box Office August 3, 1979
| Rank | Prev | Title | Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (1) | The Amityville Horror | $7,843,467 | 748 | $10,486 | $7,843,467 | 3 | ||
| 2 | (new) | North Dallas Forty | $2,787,479 | 0 | – | $2,787,479 | 3 | ||
| 3 | (2) | Alien | $1,533,612 | -16% | 613 | $2,502 | $49,909,464 | 73 | |
| Reporting movies: 3 | $12,164,558 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Amityville Horror | $7,843,467 | 748 | $7,843,467 |
| 2 | North Dallas Forty | $2,787,479 | 0 | $2,787,479 |
| 3 | Alien | $1,533,612 | 613 | $49,909,464 |
| Reporting: 3 | $12,164,558 | total | ||