| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $21,547,585 | +51.4% | 36.2% | 3 | Cocktail | $11,789,466 | 54.7% | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $9,984,566 | -34.6% | 16.8% | 3 | Coming to America | $6,430,730 | 64.4% | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $9,259,845 | -26.6% | 15.6% | 3 | Die Hard | $6,107,608 | 66% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 4 | $5,932,740 | -49% | 10% | 3 | The Dead Pool | $3,586,181 | 60.4% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 5 | $4,649,805 | -29.4% | 7.8% | 2 | Midnight Run | $4,649,805 | 100% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 6 | 7 | $3,702,668 | +53.2% | 6.2% | 2 | Monkey Shines | $1,902,024 | 51.4% | 1 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 8 | $2,004,144 | +1,641.6% | 3.4% | 1 | A Fish Called Wanda | $2,004,144 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 6 | $1,466,301 | -46.3% | 2.5% | 2 | Short Circuit 2 | $989,581 | 67.5% | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - |
