| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Zapped! | $10,768,912 | - | - | - | - | 777 | 7 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $9,227,288 | - | - | - | - | 980 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $9,141,606 | $6,020,986 | 65.9% | $3,120,620 | 34.1% | 1,614 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | $4,006,547 | - | - | - | - | 713 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | $3,681,959 | - | - | - | - | 960 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Friday the 13th: Part 3 | $3,048,844 | - | - | - | - | 770 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The World According to Garp | $2,286,994 | - | - | - | - | 560 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | The Beastmaster | $2,014,118 | - | - | - | - | 738 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Rocky III | $1,850,816 | - | - | - | - | 869 | 15 | United Artists | - | false |
| 10 | Tron | $1,676,809 | - | - | - | - | 541 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Annie | $1,558,201 | - | - | - | - | 605 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Young Doctors in Love | $1,549,619 | - | - | - | - | 576 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 1982 Re-release | $1,498,763 | - | - | - | - | 659 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Night Shift | $1,415,488 | - | - | - | - | 440 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | The Road Warrior | $1,384,264 | - | - | - | - | 430 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | Six Pack | $1,374,128 | - | - | - | - | 574 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 17 | Poltergeist | $1,239,304 | - | - | - | - | 596 | 14 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 18 | Things Are Tough All Over | $1,214,481 | - | - | - | - | 520 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Tempest | $99,957 | $80,492 | 80.5% | $19,465 | 19.5% | 4 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | 567 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Soldier | - | - | - | - | - | 488 | 4 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Challenge | - | - | - | - | - | 228 | 7 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Homework | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
