| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $4,943,439 | $3,701,609 | 74.9% | $1,241,830 | 25.1% | 1,411 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Never Say Never Again | $4,911,567 | $3,781,141 | 77% | $1,130,426 | 23% | 1,457 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | The Dead Zone | $3,996,439 | $3,011,541 | 75.4% | $984,898 | 24.6% | 1,286 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Big Chill | $3,582,051 | $2,690,391 | 75.1% | $891,660 | 24.9% | 808 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | All the Right Moves | $2,371,302 | $1,835,117 | 77.4% | $536,185 | 22.6% | 675 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Right Stuff | $2,074,849 | $1,565,168 | 75.4% | $509,681 | 24.6% | 229 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | The Osterman Weekend | $1,798,940 | $623,374 | 34.6% | $1,175,566 | 65.4% | 289 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Under Fire | $1,664,260 | $1,187,055 | 71.3% | $477,205 | 28.7% | 816 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Mr. Mom | $1,238,958 | $936,733 | 75.6% | $302,225 | 24.4% | 842 | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Risky Business | $1,178,324 | $851,578 | 72.3% | $326,746 | 27.7% | 867 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Brainstorm | $883,205 | $642,679 | 72.8% | $240,526 | 27.2% | 475 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Educating Rita | - | $1,120,022 | - | - | - | 396 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Romantic Comedy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Deathstalker | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | New World Pictures | - | false |
