| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $5,165,545 | -25.2% | 19.8% | 2 | The Terminator | $3,741,759 | 72.4% | 6 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $4,006,893 | -53.5% | 15.4% | 2 | Supergirl | $2,756,336 | 68.8% | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $3,619,956 | -39.5% | 13.9% | 1 | Missing in Action | $3,619,956 | 100% | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 5 | $2,841,237 | -28% | 10.9% | 1 | Night of the Comet | $2,841,237 | 100% | 3 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 5 | 4 | $2,470,454 | -40.4% | 9.5% | 2 | Oh, God! You Devil | $2,352,245 | 95.2% | 4 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 8 | $2,116,510 | -20.5% | 8.1% | 2 | Just the Way You Are | $1,270,250 | 60% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 6 | $1,966,582 | -34% | 7.6% | 2 | A Soldier's Story | $1,136,951 | 57.8% | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,952,777 | -32.3% | 7.5% | 1 | Falling in Love | $1,952,777 | 100% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,525,650 | -19.5% | 5.9% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,525,650 | 100% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 10 | 11 | $379,330 | -24.1% | 1.5% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $379,330 | 100% | 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
