| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | $42,269,913 | $23,019,618 | 54.5% | $19,250,295 | 45.5% | 1,002 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Blue Thunder | $7,509,096 | - | - | - | - | 1,555 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Flashdance | $5,883,242 | - | - | - | - | 1,032 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | $5,211,199 | - | - | - | - | 1,344 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Breathless | $4,124,921 | - | - | - | - | 1,073 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Chained Heat | $3,571,172 | - | - | - | - | 404 | 1 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | My Tutor | $3,176,606 | - | - | - | - | 493 | 13 | Crown | - | false |
| 8 | Tootsie | $2,816,482 | - | - | - | - | 836 | 24 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Still Smokin | $2,616,010 | - | - | - | - | 730 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $2,055,711 | $1,437,965 | 70% | $617,746 | 30% | 731 | 51 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Valley Girl | $1,475,008 | - | - | - | - | 364 | 5 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 12 | Doctor Detroit | $1,027,893 | - | - | - | - | 539 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Gandhi | $1,015,390 | - | - | - | - | 305 | 25 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Outsiders | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Baby It's You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Local Hero | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
