| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | On Golden Pond | $7,364,101 | $4,900,463 | 66.6% | $2,463,638 | 33.4% | 506 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Absence of Malice | $2,410,158 | $1,837,530 | 76.2% | $572,628 | 23.8% | 932 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Chariots of Fire | $2,207,223 | $1,669,582 | 75.6% | $537,641 | 24.4% | 283 | 20 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Taps | $2,136,574 | $1,726,889 | 80.8% | $409,685 | 19.2% | 763 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Night Crossing | $1,814,230 | $1,547,912 | 85.3% | $266,318 | 14.7% | 640 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $1,703,137 | $1,281,561 | 75.2% | $421,576 | 24.8% | 732 | 35 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Sharky's Machine | $1,171,168 | $897,448 | 76.6% | $273,720 | 23.4% | 659 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Vice Squad | $1,160,714 | $1,160,714 | 100% | $0 | - | 396 | 3 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Private Lessons | $1,094,700 | $863,236 | 78.9% | $231,464 | 21.1% | 224 | 24 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Reds | $1,024,476 | $886,581 | 86.5% | $137,895 | 13.5% | 369 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Seduction | $844,810 | $844,810 | 100% | $0 | - | 476 | 3 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Das Boot | $8,399 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Venom | - | $1,672,747 | - | - | - | 900 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Modern Problems | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Rollover | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Midnight Madness | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Neighbors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
