Box Office

Worldwide 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	Worldwide	Adjusted for inflation
1	Grease	$160.0M	$809.9M
2	Superman	$134.2M	$679.3M
3	National Lampoon's Animal House	$120.1M	$607.9M
4	Every Which Way But Loose	$85.2M	$431.2M
5	Heaven Can Wait	$81.6M	$413.2M
6	Hooper	$78.0M	$394.8M
7	Jaws 2	$77.7M	$393.5M
8	Revenge of the Pink Panther	$49.6M	$250.9M
9	The Deer Hunter	$49.0M	$248.0M
10	Halloween	$47.0M	$237.9M
11	Foul Play	$45.0M	$227.8M
12	The End	$44.9M	$227.3M
13	Up in Smoke	$44.4M	$224.5M
14	Midnight Express	$35.0M	$177.1M
15	Coming Home	$32.7M	$165.3M
16	The Lord of the Rings	$30.5M	$154.2M
17	House Calls	$28.5M	$144.0M
18	Damien: Omen II	$26.5M	$134.2M
19	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	$24.9M	$126.3M
20	Convoy	$22.8M	$115.2M
21	The Wiz	$21.0M	$106.5M
22	F.I.S.T.	$20.4M	$103.2M
23	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	$20.4M	$103.1M
24	Eyes of Laura Mars	$20.0M	$101.2M
25	The One and Only	$16.9M	$85.7M
26	Return from Witch Mountain	$16.4M	$83.0M
27	Corvette Summer	$15.5M	$78.5M
28	The Greek Tycoon	$14.7M	$74.3M
29	Death on the Nile	$14.6M	$73.7M
30	The Buddy Holly Story	$14.4M	$72.7M
31	The Big Fix	$13.1M	$66.1M
32	The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II	$11.6M	$58.5M
33	Moment by Moment	$11.0M	$55.5M
34	Interiors	$10.4M	$52.8M
35	Straight Time	$9.9M	$50.1M
36	Comes a Horseman	$9.6M	$48.5M
37	American Hot Wax	$7.9M	$40.1M
38	The Brink's Job	$7.9M	$40.0M
39	Goin' South	$7.4M	$37.6M
40	King of the Gypsies	$7.3M	$37.1M
41	Force 10 from Navarone	$7.2M	$36.6M
42	Paradise Alley	$7.2M	$36.4M
43	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	$7.1M	$35.9M
44	International Velvet	$7.0M	$35.5M
45	Blue Collar	$6.5M	$33.0M
46	Pretty Baby	$5.8M	$29.3M
47	Gray Lady Down	$5.4M	$27.5M
48	Brass Target	$5.0M	$25.4M
49	Caravans	$3.9M	$19.9M
50	Days of Heaven	$3.5M	$17.5M
51	Our Winning Season	$2.0M	$10.1M
52	I Wanna Hold Your Hand	$1.9M	$9.8M
53	Skateboard	$1.3M	$6.7M
54	Uncle Joe Shannon	$495K	$2.5M
55	Nunzio	$52K	$264K
56	The Last Waltz	$16K	$80K

“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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