| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 1 | $9,433,942 | -12.7% | 30.8% | 4 | Tightrope | $4,255,493 | 45.1% | 5 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $7,590,900 | +0.1% | 24.8% | 3 | Ghostbusters | $4,364,234 | 57.5% | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 6 | $3,807,310 | +69.3% | 12.4% | 3 | Ninja III: The Domination | $2,257,127 | 59.3% | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 3 | $3,690,761 | -13.5% | 12.1% | 3 | Revenge of the Nerds | $2,532,429 | 68.6% | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 5 | $2,779,750 | -12.1% | 9.1% | 1 | The Woman in Red | $2,779,750 | 100% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $1,930,825 | -48.3% | 6.3% | 2 | Red Dawn | $1,930,825 | 100% | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 8 | $1,377,820 | -8.7% | 4.5% | 1 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $1,377,820 | 100% | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - |
