Box Office

International box office · 1978

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	International	Adjusted for inflation
1	Grease	$40K	$203K
2	The Deer Hunter	$15K	$77K
3	National Lampoon's Animal House	$7K	$36K
4	Days of Heaven	$6K	$33K
5	The Lord of the Rings	$3K	$17K
6	Superman	$2K	$12K
7	Halloween	$1K	$7K
8	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	$1K	$6K
9	The Wiz	$172	$867
10	Eyes of Laura Mars	$77	$388
11	Every Which Way But Loose	$0	$0
12	Heaven Can Wait	$0	$0
13	Hooper	$0	$0
14	Jaws 2	$0	$0
15	Revenge of the Pink Panther	$0	$0
16	Foul Play	$0	$0
17	The End	$0	$0
18	Up in Smoke	$0	$0
19	Midnight Express	$0	$0
20	Coming Home	$0	$0
21	House Calls	$0	$0
22	Damien: Omen II	$0	$0
23	Convoy	$0	$0
24	F.I.S.T.	$0	$0
25	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	$0	$0
26	The One and Only	$0	$0
27	Return from Witch Mountain	$0	$0
28	Corvette Summer	$0	$0
29	The Greek Tycoon	$0	$0
30	Death on the Nile	$0	$0
31	The Buddy Holly Story	$0	$0
32	The Big Fix	$0	$0
33	The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II	$0	$0
34	Moment by Moment	$0	$0
35	Interiors	$0	$0
36	Straight Time	$0	$0
37	Comes a Horseman	$0	$0
38	American Hot Wax	$0	$0
39	The Brink's Job	$0	$0
40	Goin' South	$0	$0
41	King of the Gypsies	$0	$0
42	Force 10 from Navarone	$0	$0
43	Paradise Alley	$0	$0
44	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	$0	$0
45	International Velvet	$0	$0
46	Blue Collar	$0	$0
47	Pretty Baby	$0	$0
48	Gray Lady Down	$0	$0
49	Brass Target	$0	$0
50	Caravans	$0	$0
51	Our Winning Season	$0	$0
52	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	$0	$0
53	Skateboard	$0	$0
54	Uncle Joe Shannon	$0	$0
55	Nunzio	$0	$0
56	The Last Waltz	—	—

“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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