Domestic Release Schedule for 1984

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1984.

See also: Top 1984 Worldwide - Most Popular 1984

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January, 1984
Decade 1984 O'Hara's Wife (Limited)    
 
January 2 Violated (Limited) Self Distributed    
 
January 11 El Norte (Limited) Cinecom    
 
January 13 Angel (Wide) New World $17,488,564  
Hot Dog… The Movie (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $17,540,166  
Covergirl (Limited) New World    
Surf II (Limited) International Film Marketing    
 
January 20 The Buddy System (Wide) 20th Century Fox $1,820,049  
Scandalous (Wide) Orion Pictures $526,805  
The Loveless (Limited) Atlantic    
 
January 25 Entre Nous (Wide)    
 
January 27 Broadway Danny Rose (Wide) Orion Pictures $10,600,497  
The Lonely Guy (Wide) Universal $4,800,000  
Slayground (Wide) Universal $108,128  
February, 1984
February 1 Scrubbers (Wide)    
Strangers Kiss (Wide)    
 
February 3 Reckless (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $6,731,602  
Weekend Pass (Wide) Crown $21,058,033  
 
February 10 Unfaithfully Yours (Wide) 20th Century Fox $19,928,200  
Burroughs: The Movie (Limited)    
The Last Hunter (Limited) World Northal    
 
February 17 Blame it on Rio (Wide) 20th Century Fox $18,600,000  
Footloose (Wide) Paramount Pictures $80,000,000  
Lassiter (Wide) Warner Bros. $17,513,452  
Crackers (Limited) Universal $58,689  
The Return of Captain Invincible (Limited)    
March, 1984
March 1 The House by the Cemetery (Limited) Almi    
 
March 2 Against All Odds (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,100,000  
Harry & Son (Wide) Orion Pictures $4,900,000  
Over the Brooklyn Bridge (Wide) Cannon $592,448  
Repo Man (Wide) Universal $2,300,000  
This is Spinal Tap (Wide) MGM $4,736,202  
Sahara (Limited) Cannon $1,025,015  
 
March 9 Children of the Corn (Wide) New World $14,600,000  
The Hotel New Hampshire (Wide) Orion Pictures $5,142,858  
Mike's Murder (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,100,000  
Splash (Wide) Walt Disney $62,599,495  
Pete’s Dragon (Limited, re-release) $36,000,000  
 
March 16 The Ice Pirates (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $13,075,390  
Tank (Wide) Universal $11,131,530  
 
March 23 Le bal (Wide) Almi    
Police Academy (Wide) Warner Bros. $81,198,894  
Racing with the Moon (Wide) Paramount Pictures $5,400,000  
 
March 30 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Wide) Warner Bros. $45,900,000  
Misunderstood (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $1,500,000  
Purple Hearts (Wide) Warner Bros. $952,478  
Romancing the Stone (Wide) 20th Century Fox $75,078,260  
April, 1984
April 6 Hard To Hold (Wide) Universal $8,853,155  
Moscow on the Hudson (Wide) Sony Pictures $25,100,000  
The Stone Boy (Wide)    
Up the Creek (Wide) Orion Pictures $11,708,269  
Where the Boys Are '84 (Wide) Sony/TriStar $10,530,000  
Conquest (Limited) United Film Distribution Co.    
 
April 13 Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (Wide) Paramount Pictures $32,980,880  
Iceman (Wide) Universal $7,343,032  
Kidco (Wide)    
Phar Lap (Wide)    
Privates on Parade (Wide)    
Sugar Cane Alley (Wide)    
Swing Shift (Wide) Warner Bros. $6,700,000  
Suburbia (Limited) New World    
 
April 14 Locke the Superman (Limited) Best Film & Video Corp.    
 
April 20 Champions (Wide) Embassy $200,000  
Kipperbang (Wide)    
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (Limited) Self Distributed    
 
April 27 Love Letters (Wide) New World $5,269,990  
Young Lust (Wide)    
 
 
April TBD They’re Playing with Fire (Limited) New World    
May, 1984
May 4 Alphabet City (Wide) Atlantic $7,000,000  
The Bounty (Wide) Orion Pictures $8,613,462  
Breakin' (Wide) Cannon $36,100,000  
Hardbodies (Wide) Sony Pictures $7,121,000  
Sixteen Candles (Wide) Universal $23,686,027  
 
May 11 Firestarter (Wide) Universal $15,136,870  
The Natural (Wide) Sony/TriStar $47,951,979  
Gabriela (1984) (Limited)    
 
May 18 Finders Keepers (Wide) Warner Bros. $1,500,000  
Making the Grade (Wide) Cannon $4,561,000  
 
May 23 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Wide) Paramount Pictures $179,880,271  
 
May 25 Chattanooga Choo Choo (Limited)    
June, 1984
June 1 Once Upon a Time in America (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,321,508  
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Wide) Paramount Pictures $76,471,046  
Streets of Fire (Wide) Universal $5,600,000  
 
June 8 Beat Street (Wide) Orion Pictures $16,595,791  
Ghostbusters (Wide) Sony Pictures $242,604,185 Play
Gremlins (Wide) Warner Bros. $151,661,913  
 
June 13 Under the Volcano (Wide) Universal $2,428,653  
The Naked Face (Limited)    
 
June 15 Careful, He Might Hear You (Wide) 20th Century Fox    
 
June 16 Grand Canyon: The Hidden Secrets (IMAX) $52,800,000  
 
June 22 The Karate Kid (Wide) Sony Pictures $90,815,558  
The Pope of Greenwich Village (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $6,139,896  
Rhinestone (Wide) 20th Century Fox $21,400,000  
Top Secret! (Wide) Paramount Pictures $21,100,000  
A Breed Apart (Limited) Orion Pictures    
 
June 29 Another Country (Wide) Orion Classics    
Bachelor Party (Wide) 20th Century Fox $38,435,947  
Cannonball Run II (Wide) Warner Bros. $28,100,000  
Conan the Destroyer (Wide) Universal $26,400,000  
 
 
June TBD Escape from Women’s Prison (Limited) 20th Century Fox    
July, 1984
July 9 The Gods Must Be Crazy (Wide) 20th Century Fox $30,031,783  
 
July 13 The Last Starfighter (Wide) Universal $22,200,789  
The Muppets Take Manhattan (Wide) Sony/TriStar $25,534,703  
 
July 20 Best Defense (Wide) Paramount Pictures $19,265,302  
The Bostonians (Wide) Almi $312,566  
Electric Dreams (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $1,932,663  
The Neverending Story (Wide) Warner Bros. $21,300,000  
One Deadly Summer (Wide)    
Revenge of the Nerds (Wide) 20th Century Fox $40,874,452  
 
July 27 Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (Wide) Orion Pictures $3,772,785  
The Jungle Book (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $141,843,000  
Meatballs II (Wide) Sony/TriStar $5,410,972  
Purple Rain (Wide) Warner Bros. $68,392,977  
 
July 31 Scream for Help (Limited) Lorimar Motion Pictures    
August, 1984
August 3 Grandview, U.S.A. (Wide) Warner Bros. $4,743,119  
Joy of Sex (Wide) Paramount Pictures $4,463,000  
The Philadelphia Experiment (Wide) New World $8,103,330  
 
August 10 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Wide) 20th Century Fox $6,300,000  
Cloak & Dagger (Wide) Universal $9,719,952  
Red Dawn (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $38,900,000  
Metropolis (Limited, re-release) Paramount Pictures $1,206,834  
 
August 15 The Woman in Red (Wide) Orion Pictures $25,308,147  
 
August 17 Dreamscape (Wide) 20th Century Fox $12,116,365  
Old Enough (Wide)    
Sheena (Wide) Sony Pictures $5,778,353  
Tightrope (Wide) Warner Bros. $48,100,000  
 
August 24 Cal (Wide) Warner Bros.    
Oxford Blues (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $8,793,000  
Love Streams (Limited) Cannon    
 
August 29 Choose Me (Wide) Island/Alive $2,490,233  
 
August 31 Bolero (Wide) Cannon $9,000,000  
C.H.U.D. (Wide) New World $4,700,000  
Flashpoint (Wide) Sony/TriStar $3,854,833  
September, 1984
September 7 The Brother from Another Planet (Wide) Cinecom $3,700,000  
The Warrior and the Sorceress (Wide) New World $2,886,225  
 
September 14 Swann in Love (Wide) Orion Pictures $223,327  
Exterminator 2 (Wide) Cannon $3,739,406  
Ninja III: The Domination (Wide) Cannon $7,610,785  
A Soldier's Story (Wide) Sony Pictures $22,100,000  
 
September 19 Amadeus (Wide) Warner Bros. $51,973,029  
 
September 21 All of Me (Wide) Universal $35,243,581  
The Evil That Men Do (Wide) Sony/TriStar $13,102,025  
Places in the Heart (Wide) Sony/TriStar $34,900,814  
The River Rat (Wide) Paramount Pictures $790,254  
Until September (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $4,097,094  
Windy City (Wide) Warner Bros. $343,890  
 
September 28 The Bear (Wide) Embassy $2,687,148  
Body Rock (Wide) New World $1,639,127  
Heartbreakers (Wide) Orion Pictures $104,125  
Impulse (Wide) 20th Century Fox $2,766,716  
Irreconcilable Differences (Wide) Warner Bros. $12,400,000  
The Wild Life (Wide) $9,500,000  
 
September 29 Country (Wide) Walt Disney $8,400,000  
October, 1984
October 5 Eureka (1984) (Wide)    
The Perils of Gwendoline (Wide)    
Stranger Than Paradise (Wide)    
Teachers (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $27,700,000  
The New York Ripper (Limited) 21st Century Distribution    
Savage Streets (Limited) Motion Picture Marketing    
 
October 12 Comfort and Joy (Wide)    
Garbo Talks (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $1,427,108  
Songwriter (Wide) Sony/TriStar $865,915  
 
October 19 Crimes of Passion (Wide) New World $2,912,945  
The Little Drummer Girl (Wide) Warner Bros. $7,828,841  
The Razor's Edge (Wide) Sony Pictures $6,600,000  
Stop Making Sense (Wide) Cinecom $5,066,072  
Thief of Hearts (Wide) Paramount Pictures $10,400,000  
 
October 26 American Dreamer (Wide) Warner Bros. $5,021,751  
Body Double (Wide) Sony Pictures $8,801,940  
Firstborn (Wide) Paramount Pictures $6,200,000  
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Wide) 20th Century Fox $1,387,440  
The Terminator (Wide) Orion Pictures $38,019,031  
Terror in the Aisles (Wide) Universal $8,316,206  
Streetwise (Limited) $9,904  
The Times of Harvey Milk (Limited) $13,561  
 
October 27 Not For Publication (Limited) Samuel Goldwyn Films    
November, 1984
November 2 Blame it on the Night (Wide) Sony/TriStar $201,096  
The Killing Fields (Wide) Warner Bros. $34,609,720  
Lovelines (Wide) Sony/TriStar $225,570  
 
November 9 A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wide) New Line $25,504,513  
No Small Affair (Wide) Sony Pictures $4,994,094  
Oh God, You Devil! (Wide) Warner Bros. $21,538,850  
Paris, Texas (Wide) 20th Century Fox $2,164,507  
Silent Night, Deadly Night (Wide) Sony/TriStar $2,491,460  
 
November 16 A Sunday in the Country (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $2,153,717  
Gimme an F (Wide)    
Just the Way You Are (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $7,517,699  
Missing in Action (Wide) Cannon $22,812,411  
Night of the Comet (Wide) Atlantic $14,600,000  
Razorback (Wide) Warner Bros. $138,643  
Night Patrol (Limited) New World    
Raw Courage (Limited) New World    
 
November 21 Falling in Love (Wide) Paramount Pictures $10,600,000  
Supergirl (Wide) Sony/TriStar $14,296,438  
Boy Meets Girl (Limited)    
 
 
November TBD Bad Manners (Limited) New World    
December, 1984
December 5 Beverly Hills Cop (Wide) Paramount Pictures $234,760,478  
 
December 7 2010 (Wide) MGM $41,000,000  
City Heat (Wide) Warner Bros. $38,348,988  
The Initiation (Limited) New World    
 
December 14 The Cotton Club (Wide) Orion Pictures $25,928,721  
Dune (Wide) Universal $27,447,471  
Mass Appeal (Wide) Universal $1,900,000  
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Wide) Atlantic $8,368,371  
A Passage to India (Wide) Sony Pictures $27,187,653  
Runaway (Wide) Sony/TriStar $6,800,000  
Starman (Wide) Sony Pictures $28,700,000  
 
December 17 The River (Wide) Universal $8,818,672  
 
December 19 Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (Wide) Cannon $15,000,000  
 
December 21 Birdy (Wide) Sony/TriStar $1,400,000  
The Flamingo Kid (Wide) 20th Century Fox $23,859,382  
Johnny Dangerously (Wide) 20th Century Fox $17,124,395  
Micki + Maude (Wide) Sony Pictures $26,200,000  
Pinocchio (Wide, re-release) Walt Disney $84,300,000  
Protocol (Wide) Warner Bros. $26,300,000  
 
December 26 Mrs. Soffel (Wide) MGM/UA Classics $4,012,827  
 
 
During 1984 Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie (Limited) Self Distributed