Domestic Release Schedule for 1979

This chart lists all movies that had a release in theaters in the United States and/or Canada in 1979.

See also: Top 1979 Worldwide - Most Popular 1979

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Release DateMovieDistributorDomestic
Box Office
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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    
 
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 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  
The Prisoner of Zenda (Wide) Universal $7,000,000  
 
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) $404,508  
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 $83,535,860  
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 TBD 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 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