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Top 1977 Movies at the Domestic Box Office


See also: Top 1977 International - Top 1977 Worldwide

Other Domestic Cumulative records: All Time Domestic - All Time Domestic (Inf. Adj.) - All Time Animated Domestic - All Time Sequel Domestic - All Time Non-Sequel Domestic - Top 2023 Domestic - Top 2024 Domestic

This chart contains the total domestic box office for movies released in 1977.

See Top Grossing Movies of 1977 for a list of movies that earned most at the domestic box office during 1977, including films released in 1976 and earlier.

Top 1976 Domestic Top 1978 Domestic
Rank Movie Distributor Domestic
Box
Office
Opening
Weekend
Box Office
Max
Theater
Count
1 Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope 20th Cent… $460,998,007 $1,554,475 2,375
2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Columbia $169,100,479 901
3 Saturday Night Fever Paramount… $139,486,124 $3,878,099 726
4 Smokey and the Bandit Universal $126,737,428 $1,728,060 498
5 The Goodbye Girl MGM $83,700,000 $766,296 309
6 In Search of Noah's Ark Sunn Clas… $55,700,000
7 Oh, God! Warner Bros. $51,061,196 $1,900,000 198
8 A Bridge Too Far United Ar… $50,800,000
9 The Deep Columbia $50,681,884 $6,835,540 731
10 The Rescuers Walt Disney $48,775,599 1,482
11 The Spy Who Loved Me United Ar… $46,800,000 $1,347,927 194
12 Annie Hall United Ar… $38,251,425
13 Semi-Tough United Ar… $37,187,139
14 Pete’s Dragon Walt Disney $36,000,000
15 The Gauntlet Warner Bros. $35,400,000
16 The Turning Point 20th Cent… $33,600,000 $118,035 5
17 Heroes Universal $33,000,000
18 High Anxiety 20th Cent… $31,063,038
19 Airport '77 Universal $30,000,000
20 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo Walt Disney $28,000,000
21 Slap Shot Universal $28,000,000
22 Freaky Friday Walt Disney $25,942,000
23 Exorcist II: The Heretic Warner Bros. $25,011,000
24 The Other Side of Midnight 20th Cent… $24,652,021
25 For the Love of Benji Joe Camp … $22,257,624
26 The World's Greatest Lover 20th Cent… $21,000,000
27 Kingdom of the Spiders Dimension… $17,000,000
28 Which Way Is Up? Universal $17,000,000
29 Looking for Mr. Goodbar Paramount… $16,900,000 $1,540,635 110
30 MacArthur Universal $16,320,000
31 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger Columbia $16,000,000
32 The Kentucky Fried Movie United Fi… $15,000,000
33 Orca Paramount… $14,717,854
34 New York, New York United Ar… $13,800,000
35 Sorcerer Paramount… $12,000,000

The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).

This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.

Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.