| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Mr. Mom | $9,562,969 | - | - | - | - | 1,362 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Risky Business | $7,573,544 | - | - | - | - | 1,119 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Easy Money | $4,861,415 | - | - | - | - | 1,112 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | National Lampoon's Vacation | $4,760,228 | - | - | - | - | 1,248 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | $4,146,604 | - | - | - | - | 957 | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Hercules | $2,871,626 | - | - | - | - | 1,014 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Flashdance | $2,622,699 | - | - | - | - | 860 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Trading Places | $2,424,903 | - | - | - | - | 750 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Staying Alive | $2,118,218 | - | - | - | - | 755 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Strange Brew | $2,100,422 | - | - | - | - | 722 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | WarGames | $2,092,177 | - | - | - | - | 849 | 14 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Cujo | $1,976,824 | - | - | - | - | 813 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 | $1,452,000 | - | - | - | - | 1,119 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Deathstalker | $511,115 | - | - | - | - | 166 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mortuary | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Film Ventures International (FVI) | - | false |
| - | Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
