| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $18,679,092 | -28.8% | 23.5% | 3 | Three Men and a Baby | $15,804,968 | 84.6% | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $17,787,329 | -31.7% | 22.3% | 3 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $8,264,324 | 46.5% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $13,566,350 | -22.8% | 17% | 2 | Broadcast News | $7,753,868 | 57.2% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 4 | $8,310,815 | -32.6% | 10.4% | 1 | Throw Momma from the Train | $8,310,815 | 100% | 4 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $6,742,745 | -20.8% | 8.5% | 2 | Empire of the Sun | $3,957,421 | 58.7% | 4 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $5,625,209 | -35.9% | 7.1% | 1 | *batteries not included | $5,625,209 | 100% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $5,158,242 | -16.4% | 6.5% | 2 | Overboard | $4,818,403 | 93.4% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 8 | $2,263,705 | -37.4% | 2.8% | 2 | The Last Emperor | $1,540,110 | 68% | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,474,924 | -12.4% | 1.9% | 2 | The Running Man | $1,397,639 | 94.8% | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - |
