Movie Theatrical Release Schedule for 1984
| Release Date | Movie | Distributor | Domestic Box Office to Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | $5,750,133 | |
| 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 | |
| Gremlins (Wide) | Warner Bros. | $151,937,605 | |
| 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 | |
| Time Masters (Limited) | $43,686 | ||
| 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. | $71,227,916 | |
| 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 | $25,804,893 |
| 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 | $2,510,267 | |
| 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 | $28,361,001 | |
| 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 | |