| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 1 | $11,451,789 | -8% | 34.5% | 3 | Tootsie | $4,252,876 | 37.1% | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $7,357,705 | -27.7% | 22.2% | 3 | The Outsiders | $3,814,407 | 51.8% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 3 | $6,545,348 | -10.3% | 19.7% | 4 | Monty Python's the Meaning of Life | $2,705,546 | 41.3% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 4 | $4,098,790 | +13.9% | 12.3% | 3 | Max Dugan Returns | $3,081,891 | 75.2% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 5 | $1,680,713 | -46.7% | 5.1% | 1 | The Sword in the Stone | $1,680,713 | 100% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 8 | $1,076,532 | +225.6% | 3.2% | 1 | My Tutor | $1,076,532 | 100% | 6 | Crown | - |
| 7 | 6 | $979,312 | -65.4% | 3% | 2 | The Black Stallion Returns | $979,312 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
