| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | - | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | $30,490,619 | - | 1,002 | - | $30,429 | $41,131,399 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | true | false |
| 2 | - | Blue Thunder | $6,239,999 | - | 1,555 | - | $4,012 | $25,942,709 | - | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | - | Flashdance | $4,667,930 | - | 1,032 | - | $4,523 | $36,586,389 | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | - | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | $4,576,732 | - | 1,344 | - | $3,405 | $13,348,344 | - | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | - | Breathless | $3,367,492 | - | 1,073 | - | $3,138 | $14,487,363 | - | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | - | Tootsie | $2,439,315 | - | 836 | - | $2,917 | $169,884,870 | - | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | - | Chained Heat | $2,252,682 | - | 404 | - | $5,575 | $2,252,682 | - | - | - | false |
| 8 | - | Still Smokin | $2,139,772 | - | 730 | - | $2,931 | $10,819,238 | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | - | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $1,718,800 | - | 739 | - | $2,325 | $351,515,075 | 51 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | - | My Tutor | $1,411,824 | - | 493 | - | $2,863 | $15,634,590 | - | Crown | - | false |
| 11 | - | Valley Girl | $1,180,006 | - | 364 | - | $3,241 | $9,330,393 | - | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 12 | - | Doctor Detroit | $1,027,893 | - | 539 | - | $1,907 | $10,375,893 | - | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | - | Gandhi | $827,377 | - | 305 | - | $2,712 | $51,669,867 | - | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | - | Local Hero | $575,767 | - | 173 | - | $3,328 | $5,767,363 | - | Warner Bros. | - | false |
