| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $6,299,675 | +9.7% | 23.6% | 4 | No Small Affair | $2,273,469 | 36.1% | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 6 | $5,593,949 | +126.4% | 20.9% | 4 | Oh, God! You Devil | $5,560,001 | 99.4% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 2 | $4,738,184 | -7.2% | 17.7% | 2 | The Terminator | $3,191,628 | 67.4% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 5 | $3,661,664 | +44.6% | 13.7% | 2 | Places in the Heart | $2,228,864 | 60.9% | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 5 | 7 | $1,446,376 | -23.9% | 5.4% | 1 | Teachers | $1,446,376 | 100% | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 3 | $1,321,494 | -64.9% | 4.9% | 2 | All of Me | $1,321,494 | 100% | 8 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 8 | 4 | $1,128,103 | -62.9% | 4.2% | 3 | Firstborn | $1,128,103 | 100% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 10 | 8 | $210,415 | +25.3% | 0.8% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $210,415 | 100% | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
