| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | First Blood | $6,624,819 | $4,565,972 | 68.9% | $2,058,847 | 31.1% | 907 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Class Reunion | $4,207,671 | $3,086,525 | 73.4% | $1,121,146 | 26.6% | 1,121 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Halloween III: Season of the Witch | $4,016,070 | $3,338,257 | 83.1% | $677,813 | 16.9% | 1,328 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $3,755,336 | $2,769,252 | 73.7% | $986,084 | 26.3% | 1,120 | 21 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $3,561,440 | $2,511,645 | 70.5% | $1,049,795 | 29.5% | 1,050 | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Monsignor | $3,088,652 | $2,237,658 | 72.4% | $850,994 | 27.6% | 885 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | My Favorite Year | $1,891,097 | $1,481,129 | 78.3% | $409,968 | 21.7% | 541 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | It Came from Hollywood | $1,411,182 | $1,095,003 | 77.6% | $316,179 | 22.4% | 650 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Jinxed! | $513,739 | $513,739 | 100% | $0 | - | 843 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 10 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | $399,661 | $249,752 | 62.5% | $149,909 | 37.5% | 233 | 12 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | Rocky III | $342,028 | $245,234 | 71.7% | $96,794 | 28.3% | 249 | 23 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | Poltergeist | - | $1,003,019 | - | - | - | 879 | 22 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Night Shift | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Sender | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
