Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1979
| Release Date | Movie | Distributor | Domestic Box Office to Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1979 | |||
| During 1979 | The Bermuda Triangle (Wide) | $22,200,000 | |
| Chapter Two (Wide) | Columbia | $30,000,000 | |
| The Concorde: Airport '79 (Wide) | Universal | $13,000,000 | |
| Dracula (Wide) | Universal | $21,000,000 | |
| A Force of One (Wide) | American Cinema Releasing | $20,200,000 | |
| Going in Style (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $29,900,000 | |
| Hanover Street (Wide) | Columbia | $3,000,000 | |
| Love at First Bite (Wide) | American International Pictures | $43,900,000 | |
| Time After Time (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $13,000,000 | |
| January 11 | The Innocent (Limited) | Analysis | $29,451 |
| January 19 | On the Yard (Limited) | Midwest Movies | |
| January 24 | The Bermuda Triangle (Limited) | ||
| February 1979 | |||
| February TBD | The Glacier Fox (Limited) | Sanrio Communications | $3,500,000 |
| February 2 | The Great Train Robbery (Wide) | United Artists | $391,942 |
| ABBA: The Movie (Limited) | Warner Bros. | ||
| February 9 | Agatha (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $7,500,000 |
| Quintet (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| The Warriors (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $22,490,000 | |
| Hardcore (Limited) | |||
| Murder by Decree (Limited) | Avco Embassy | ||
| February 23 | The Deer Hunter (Expands Wide) | Universal | $50,000,000 |
| March 1979 | |||
| March TBD | Dirt (Wide) | American Cinema Releasing | $9,200,000 |
| March 2 | Norma Rae (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $22,228,000 |
| Real Life (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| March 9 | The Passage (Wide) | United Artists | $70,461 |
| Star Crash (Limited) | New World | ||
| March 14 | Voices (Wide) | MGM | $27,445 |
| March 16 | The China Syndrome (Wide) | Columbia | $35,708,042 |
| Tourist Trap (Limited) | Compass International | ||
| March 24 | Hair (Wide) | United Artists | $13,100,000 |
| March 30 | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Wide) | Universal | |
| Birds of a Feather (Wide) | United Artists | $18,709 | |
| April 1979 | |||
| April 3 | Town Bloody Hall (Limited) | Pennebaker Films | |
| April 4 | The Champ (Wide) | MGM | $30,441,738 |
| April 6 | A Perfect Couple (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | |
| April 20 | Dawn of the Dead (Limited) | United Film Distribution Co. | $5,100,000 |
| Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (Limited) | New World | ||
| April 25 | Manhattan (Wide) | United Artists | $39,946,780 |
| April 27 | An Almost Perfect Affair (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | |
| Dreamer (1979) (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| A Little Romance (Wide) | Warner Bros. | ||
| The Dark (Limited) | Film Ventures International | ||
| May 1979 | |||
| During 1979 | Hot Stuff (Wide) | Columbia | |
| May 2 | Last Embrace (Wide) | United Artists | $381,119 |
| May 4 | Dawn of the Dead (Wide) | United Film Distribution Co. | $5,100,000 |
| May 9 | Jubilee (Limited) | Libra Films | |
| May 11 | Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (Limited) | ||
| May 18 | Winter Kills (Wide) | Avco Embassy | $77,587 |
| Battlestar Galactica (Limited) | Universal | ||
| Over the Edge (Limited) | |||
| May 25 | Alien (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $65,403,354 |
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (Wide) | Warner Bros. | ||
| The Prisoner of Zenda (Wide) | Universal | $7,000,000 | |
| Jaws (Limited, re-release) | Universal | $287,216,780 | |
| May 31 | The Brood (Wide) | New World | |
| June 1979 | |||
| June 1 | Phantasm (Wide) | Avco Embassy | |
| Wanda Nevada (Wide) | United Artists | ||
| June 8 | Players (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | |
| June 15 | Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | |
| Goldengirl (Wide) | Avco Embassy | ||
| The In-Laws (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $38,200,000 | |
| Prophecy (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $22,673,340 | |
| Rocky 2 (Wide) | United Artists | $85,182,160 | |
| The Driller Killer (Limited) | |||
| June 22 | Escape from Alcatraz (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $43,000,000 |
| Lost and Found (Wide) | Columbia | $1,022,374 | |
| The Main Event (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $37,198,813 | |
| The Muppet Movie (Wide) | Associated Film Distributors | $76,657,000 | |
| June 29 | Meatballs (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $43,000,000 |
| Moonraker (Wide) | United Artists | $70,300,000 | |
| Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| June 30 | The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Limited) | ||
| June TBD | Dolphin (Wide) | $14,000 | |
| Killer of Sheep (Limited) | $510,807 | ||
| Racquet (Limited) | |||
| July 1979 | |||
| July 13 | Breaking Away (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $20,000,000 |
| The Frisco Kid (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $12,000,000 | |
| The Wanderers (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $5,017,811 | |
| July 15 | Peppermint Soda (Limited) | New Yorker | |
| July 20 | The Villain (Wide) | Columbia | |
| August 1979 | |||
| August 3 | The Amityville Horror (Wide) | American International Pictures | $86,432,520 |
| More American Graffiti (Wide) | Universal | $8,100,000 | |
| North Dallas Forty (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $19,010,710 | |
| August 10 | Americathon (Wide) | United Artists | |
| Sunburn (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | ||
| August 15 | Apocalypse Now (Wide) | United Artists | $83,628,547 |
| Star Wars Ep. IV: A New Hope (Wide, re-release) | 20th Century Fox | $460,998,007 | |
| August 17 | The Life of Brian (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $20,182,359 |
| Rich Kids (Wide) | United Artists | $53,064 | |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan (Wide) | Universal | $19,000,000 | |
| Orchestra Rehearsal (Limited) | New Yorker | ||
| September 1979 | |||
| September 7 | Nest of Vipers (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | |
| September 14 | City on Fire (Wide) | Avco Embassy | |
| The Legacy (Wide) | Universal | ||
| September 19 | Yanks (Limited) | Universal | |
| September 21 | The Onion Field (Wide) | Avco Embassy | |
| September 28 | A Man, a Woman and a Bank (Wide) | Avco Embassy | |
| When a Stranger Calls (Wide) | Columbia | $1,262,052 | |
| September 29 | Thirst (Limited) | New Line | |
| September TBD | The Great American Girl Robbery (Limited) | ||
| Seven (Limited) | Self Distributed | ||
| October 1979 | |||
| October 5 | 10 (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $52,134,699 |
| Luna (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Nosferatu the Vampyre (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| The Runner Stumbles (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | ||
| Starting Over (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $38,200,000 | |
| October 8 | The Europeans (Limited) | Levitt-Pickman | |
| October 12 | Delta Fox (Limited) | ||
| October 17 | Black Stallion, The (Wide) | United Artists | $37,799,643 |
| Vengeance is Mine (Limited) | $13,565 | ||
| October 19 | ...And Justice For All (Wide) | Columbia | $33,300,000 |
| Meteor (Wide) | American International Pictures | $8,400,000 | |
| Chilly Scenes of Winter (Limited) | United Artists | ||
| October 26 | The Great Santini (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $7,000,000 |
| October TBD | No Maps on my Taps (Limited) | ||
| Skatetown, U.S.A. (Limited) | Columbia | ||
| November 1979 | |||
| November 2 | The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (Wide) | United Artists | $12,922 |
| Running (Wide) | Universal | ||
| Promises in the Dark (Limited) | Orion Pictures | ||
| November 3 | The Great Alligator (Limited) | ||
| November 7 | The Rose (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $29,200,000 |
| November 16 | Human Experiments (Limited) | Self Distributed | |
| November 21 | Arabian Adventure (Limited) | Associated Film Distributors | |
| November TBD | The Prize Fighter (Limited) | New World | |
| December 1979 | |||
| December 7 | Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Wide) | Paramount Pictures | $82,258,456 |
| December 14 | 1941 (Wide) | Universal | $34,175,000 |
| The Jerk (Wide) | Universal | $73,691,419 | |
| Wise Blood (Wide) | New Line | ||
| Zulu Dawn (Wide) | American Cinema Releasing | ||
| December 16 | The Human Factor (Wide) | MGM | |
| December 19 | Being There (Wide) | United Artists | $30,177,511 |
| The Electric Horseman (Wide) | Universal | $42,670,138 | |
| Kramer vs. Kramer (Wide) | Columbia | $106,260,000 | |
| Roller Boogie (Wide) | United Artists | $775,133 | |
| December 20 | All That Jazz (Wide) | 20th Century Fox | $37,823,676 |
| December 21 | The Black Hole (Wide) | Walt Disney | $35,841,901 |
| Cuba (Wide) | United Artists | $527,540 | |
| December 25 | Scavenger Hunt (Limited) | 20th Century Fox | |
| December TBD | The War at Home (Limited) | Seventh Art Releasing | |