Week Domestic Box Office August 3, 1979
| Rank | Prev | Title | Daily Gross | Weekly Change |
Theaters | Theater Average |
Total Gross | Days in Release | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | (new) | The Amityville Horror | $13,254,278 | 0 | – | $13,254,278 | 7 | ||
| 2 | (1) | Alien | $2,414,912 | -16% | 613 | $3,939 | $50,790,764 | 77 | |
| Reporting movies: 2 | $15,669,190 | total box office | |||||||
| Rank | Title | Daily | Theaters | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Amityville Horror | $13,254,278 | 0 | $13,254,278 |
| 2 | Alien | $2,414,912 | 613 | $50,790,764 |
| Reporting: 2 | $15,669,190 | total | ||