Box Office

Domestic box office · 1977

The top-grossing releases of the year. Switch between worldwide, domestic, and international — every figure shown both as reported and adjusted for inflation, so films from any era are directly comparable.

Worldwide Domestic International

#	Title	Domestic	Adjusted for inflation
1	Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope	$307.3M	$1.67B
2	Smokey and the Bandit	$126.7M	$690.2M
3	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	$116.4M	$633.8M
4	Saturday Night Fever	$94.2M	$513.0M
5	A Bridge Too Far	$50.8M	$276.4M
6	The Deep	$47.3M	$257.8M
7	The Spy Who Loved Me	$46.8M	$255.1M
8	Oh, God!	$41.7M	$227.0M
9	Annie Hall	$38.3M	$208.3M
10	Semi-Tough	$37.2M	$202.5M
11	Pete's Dragon	$35.5M	$193.3M
12	Heroes	$33.5M	$182.4M
13	High Anxiety	$31.1M	$169.2M
14	Exorcist II: The Heretic	$30.7M	$167.4M
15	The Rescuers	$29.0M	$157.9M
16	Slap Shot	$28.0M	$152.5M
17	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo	$28.0M	$152.5M
18	The Gauntlet	$26.4M	$143.8M
19	The Turning Point	$25.9M	$141.2M
20	Freaky Friday	$25.6M	$139.6M
21	The Other Side of Midnight	$24.7M	$134.2M
22	Looking for Mr. Goodbar	$22.5M	$122.6M
23	Julia	$20.7M	$112.8M
24	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	$19.1M	$104.0M
25	For the Love of Benji	$17.7M	$96.6M
26	New York, New York	$16.4M	$89.3M
27	Black Sunday	$15.8M	$85.9M
28	Orca	$14.7M	$80.1M
29	Bobby Deerfie ld	$9.3M	$50.6M
30	Islands in the Stream	$5.6M	$30.5M
31	Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown	$3.2M	$17.6M
32	March or Die	$1.0M	$5.4M
33	Joseph Andrews	$840K	$4.6M
34	Citizens Band	$816K	$4.4M
35	Fraternity Row	$291K	$1.6M
36	Sorcerer	—	—
37	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	—	—
38	1900	—	—
39	The Last Wave	—	—
40	The American Friend	—	—

“Adjusted for inflation” restates each gross in today’s dollars using US CPI-U annual averages. Domestic and international views are re-ranked from the year’s top releases; some early years report domestic-only figures.

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