Theatrical Releases

Feature films

• January 3 - Head Office (TriStar Pictures)
• January 17
  • Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! (Clubhouse Pictures; re-issue)
  • Iron Eagle (TriStar Pictures)
• January 22 - Desert Bloom (Columbia Pictures; limited)
• January 31 - Murphy's Romance (Columbia Pictures)
• February 14
  • La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (TriStar Pictures)
  • Quicksilver (Columbia Pictures)
• February 21 - The Hitcher (TriStar Pictures)
• March 7
  • Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (Columbia Pictures; limited)
  • Odd Jobs (TriStar Pictures)
• March 14 - Crossroads (Columbia Pictures)
• March 21
  • Band of the Hand (TriStar Pictures)
  • Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (Columbia Pictures)
  • Rad (TriStar Pictures)
• April 11 - Violets Are Blue (Columbia Pictures)
• April 15 - Desert Bloom (Columbia Pictures; New York City, New York)
• April 18 - Desert Bloom (Columbia Pictures)
• April 25
  • 8 Million Ways to Die (TriStar Pictures)
  • Crimewave (Columbia Pictures)
• April - Crimewave (Columbia Pictures; WorldFest Houston)
• May 2
  • Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (Columbia Pictures)
  • Saving Grace (Columbia Pictures)
• May 9 - Short Circuit (TriStar Pictures)
• May 30 - Big Trouble (Columbia Pictures)
• May - Crimewave (Columbia Pictures; Seattle International Film Festival)
• June 19 - The Karate Kid, Part II (Columbia Pictures; New York City, New York)
• June 20 - The Karate Kid, Part II (Columbia Pictures)
• June 27
  • American Anthem (Columbia Pictures)
  • Labyrinth (TriStar Pictures)
• July 2 - About Last Night... (TriStar Pictures)
• July 25 - Out of Bounds (Columbia Pictures)
• July 30 - Nothing in Common (TriStar Pictures)
• August 6 - Stand by Me (Columbia Pictures) premiered in Los Angeles, California
• August 8
  • A Fine Mess (Columbia Pictures; Rome premiere)
  • Stand by Me (Columbia Pictures; limited)
• August 15 - Armed and Dangerous (Columbia Pictures)
• August 22
  • Night of the Creeps (TriStar Pictures)
  • One More Saturday Night (Columbia Pictures)
  • Stand by Me (Columbia Pictures)
  • Touch and Go (TriStar Pictures)
• August 23 - A Fine Mess (Columbia Pictures)
• August - Stewardess School (Columbia Pictures)
• September 8 - Where Are The Children? (Columbia Pictures; Madison, Wisconsin)
• October 10
  • Peggy Sue Got Married (TriStar Pictures)
  • That's Life! (Columbia Pictures)
• October 31 - Let's Get Harry (TriStar Pictures)
• November 7 - The Boss' Wife (TriStar Pictures)
• November 14 - Every Time We Say Goodbye (TriStar Pictures)
• December 3 - Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star (TriStar Pictures)
• December 12 - Where Are The Children? (Columbia Pictures; New York City, New York)
• December 19 - No Mercy (TriStar Pictures)

Television

• January 28 - Melba
• February 15 - Fortune Dane
• March 31 - Pleasures
• April 14 - A Winner Never Quits
• September 15
  • The New Gidget
  • The Real Ghostbusters
• September 19 - Starman
• September 23 - Sledge Hammer!
• September 29 - Designing Women
• October 5 - There Must Be a Pony
• October 15 - The Canterville Ghost
• November 17 - Kate's Secret
• December 5 - Dads

Home video

• July 3 - White Nights
• September 22
  • Funny Lady
  • The Jolson Story

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