| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Creepshow | $9,391,174 | $5,870,889 | 62.5% | $3,520,285 | 37.5% | 1,127 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | First Blood | $4,695,578 | $3,631,282 | 77.3% | $1,064,296 | 22.7% | 896 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $3,712,568 | $2,945,472 | 79.3% | $767,096 | 20.7% | 1,136 | 23 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $3,363,098 | $2,701,412 | 80.3% | $661,686 | 19.7% | 977 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Missionary | $1,688,485 | $1,311,391 | 77.7% | $377,094 | 22.3% | 528 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Class Reunion | $1,430,471 | $1,133,660 | 79.2% | $296,811 | 20.8% | 831 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | My Favorite Year | $1,399,802 | $1,105,683 | 79% | $294,119 | 21% | 544 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | They Call Me Bruce | $1,339,184 | $1,071,345 | 80% | $267,839 | 20% | 165 | 1 | Film Ventures International (FVI) | - | false |
| 9 | The Man from Snowy River | $1,095,502 | $843,348 | 77% | $252,154 | 23% | 199 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Monsignor | $1,088,612 | $844,784 | 77.6% | $243,828 | 22.4% | 526 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Poltergeist | $282,520 | $223,190 | 79% | $59,330 | 21% | 288 | 24 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Pink Floyd: The Wall | $264,830 | $179,131 | 67.6% | $85,699 | 32.4% | 180 | 14 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | Five Days One Summer | $67,525 | $43,891 | 65% | $23,634 | 35% | 6 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1980 Special Edition | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Halloween III: Season of the Witch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | It Came from Hollywood | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
