| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $5,266,218 | $4,509,267 | 85.6% | $756,951 | 14.4% | 967 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $5,030,117 | $3,761,768 | 74.8% | $1,268,349 | 25.2% | 1,352 | 18 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | My Favorite Year | $2,979,722 | $2,400,696 | 80.6% | $579,026 | 19.4% | 714 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Amityville II: The Possession | $1,974,500 | $1,700,500 | 86.1% | $274,000 | 13.9% | 843 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | $1,892,707 | $1,528,954 | 80.8% | $363,753 | 19.2% | 646 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | $1,449,168 | $1,209,078 | 83.4% | $240,090 | 16.6% | 499 | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Rocky III | $835,800 | $686,371 | 82.1% | $149,429 | 17.9% | 496 | 20 | United Artists | - | false |
| 8 | Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again | $713,816 | $604,795 | 84.7% | $109,021 | 15.3% | 300 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Lookin' to Get Out | $617,543 | $528,559 | 85.6% | $88,984 | 14.4% | 303 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Tempest | $542,890 | $524,100 | 96.5% | $18,790 | 3.5% | 326 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | $456,827 | $809,889 | 177.3% | $-353,062 | - | 597 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Last American Virgin | - | $527,198 | - | - | - | 158 | 10 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Yes, Giorgio | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Song of the South | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The World According to Garp | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
