| 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 | $28,203,054 | $17,129,694 | 60.7% | $11,073,360 | 39.3% | 1,002 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Psycho II | $11,789,324 | $8,310,244 | 70.5% | $3,479,080 | 29.5% | 1,448 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | WarGames | $9,338,579 | $6,227,804 | 66.7% | $3,110,775 | 33.3% | 843 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | The Man with Two Brains | $4,796,605 | $3,498,931 | 73% | $1,297,674 | 27% | 1,203 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Flashdance | $4,508,878 | $3,008,173 | 66.7% | $1,500,705 | 33.3% | 1,029 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Blue Thunder | $4,311,374 | $3,208,259 | 74.4% | $1,103,115 | 25.6% | 1,416 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Breathless | $2,109,674 | $1,491,457 | 70.7% | $618,217 | 29.3% | 892 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Chained Heat | $2,016,246 | $1,346,134 | 66.8% | $670,112 | 33.2% | 417 | 2 | Jensen Farley Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone | $2,013,740 | $1,522,540 | 75.6% | $491,200 | 24.4% | 1,062 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | My Tutor | $1,876,270 | $772,582 | 41.2% | $1,103,688 | 58.8% | 439 | 14 | Crown | - | false |
| 11 | Tootsie | $1,809,244 | $1,279,134 | 70.7% | $530,110 | 29.3% | 775 | 25 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Valley Girl | $1,584,600 | $1,212,747 | 76.5% | $371,853 | 23.5% | 427 | 6 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 13 | Still Smokin | $1,507,319 | $1,121,675 | 74.4% | $385,644 | 25.6% | 637 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $1,491,203 | $1,053,934 | 70.7% | $437,269 | 29.3% | 530 | 52 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Gandhi | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Sea Wolves | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
