| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1982 Re-release | $6,000,297 | $3,949,478 | 65.8% | $2,050,819 | 34.2% | 992 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | First Blood | $5,462,072 | $3,372,221 | 61.7% | $2,089,851 | 38.3% | 1,047 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Creepshow | $4,686,083 | $3,151,229 | 67.2% | $1,534,854 | 32.8% | 1,132 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $4,536,769 | $2,880,704 | 63.5% | $1,656,065 | 36.5% | 1,021 | 24 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $4,299,679 | $2,621,761 | 61% | $1,677,918 | 39% | 946 | 17 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Last Unicorn | $2,960,727 | $2,250,000 | 76% | $710,727 | 24% | 648 | 1 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Heidi's Song | $1,793,925 | $1,416,713 | 79% | $377,212 | 21% | 982 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | My Favorite Year | $1,433,147 | $953,511 | 66.5% | $479,636 | 33.5% | 431 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | They Call Me Bruce | $1,275,225 | $1,001,696 | 78.6% | $273,529 | 21.4% | 192 | 2 | Film Ventures International (FVI) | - | false |
| 10 | The Missionary | $1,236,227 | $853,918 | 69.1% | $382,309 | 30.9% | 393 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Man from Snowy River | $1,190,648 | $764,543 | 64.2% | $426,105 | 35.8% | 209 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Monsignor | $677,060 | $478,370 | 70.6% | $198,690 | 29.4% | 293 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Class Reunion | $518,281 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Five Days One Summer | $40,861 | $28,603 | 70% | $12,258 | 30% | 6 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Poltergeist | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Pink Floyd: The Wall | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Heaven's Gate | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | United Artists | - | false |
