| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Police Academy | $6,212,654 | -26.5% | 1,587 | - | $3,914 | $55,011,242 | 6 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 2 | Romancing the Stone | $6,190,012 | -20.3% | 1,086 | +14 | $5,699 | $36,175,576 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 3 | 4 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $4,352,052 | -30.4% | 1,162 | -13 | $3,745 | $33,404,007 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 4 | 3 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $3,820,130 | -49.3% | 1,418 | -182 | $2,694 | $26,439,573 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Splash | $3,705,120 | -29.8% | 1,153 | -33 | $3,213 | $53,196,962 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $3,125,527 | -29.4% | 721 | +10 | $4,334 | $16,581,636 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 7 | Footloose | $2,959,456 | -13.4% | 1,110 | +65 | $2,666 | $64,469,397 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 9 | Terms of Endearment | $1,618,913 | -34.2% | 655 | -195 | $2,471 | $102,827,679 | 24 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 8 | Iceman | $1,547,000 | -38.5% | 560 | -111 | $2,762 | $6,754,000 | 3 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Swing Shift | $1,096,274 | -55.4% | 656 | -158 | $1,671 | $6,650,206 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $659,712 | +105.5% | 206 | +144 | $3,202 | $1,978,233 | 9 | Embassy Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 15 | Champions | $108,282 | +17.4% | 55 | +16 | $1,968 | $200,498 | 2 | AVCO Embassy Pictures | false | false |
