| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Easy Money | $9,140,179 | $5,844,974 | 64% | $3,295,205 | 36% | 1,130 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Risky Business | $8,170,218 | $5,252,090 | 64.3% | $2,918,128 | 35.7% | 891 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Mr. Mom | $7,046,795 | $4,279,384 | 60.7% | $2,767,411 | 39.3% | 734 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | National Lampoon's Vacation | $6,177,046 | $4,028,780 | 65.2% | $2,148,266 | 34.8% | 1,252 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Cujo | $5,314,720 | $3,592,620 | 67.6% | $1,722,100 | 32.4% | 1,293 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | $5,081,560 | $3,033,669 | 59.7% | $2,047,891 | 40.3% | 1,284 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Staying Alive | $2,897,982 | $1,836,786 | 63.4% | $1,061,196 | 36.6% | 818 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Yor: The Hunter from the Future | $2,810,199 | $2,810,199 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,425 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | $2,791,000 | $2,019,000 | 72.3% | $772,000 | 27.7% | 549 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Trading Places | $2,789,786 | $1,877,435 | 67.3% | $912,351 | 32.7% | 785 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Flashdance | $2,455,514 | $1,516,078 | 61.7% | $939,436 | 38.3% | 658 | 19 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | WarGames | $2,274,794 | $1,400,185 | 61.6% | $874,609 | 38.4% | 816 | 12 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | $22,110 | $15,477 | 70% | $6,633 | 30% | 1 | 1 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Star Chamber | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Man Who Wasn't There | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | First Monday in October | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Octopussy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Private School | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Jaws 3-D | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Krull | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Curse of the Pink Panther | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Class | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
