| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Never Say Never Again | $4,421,948 | $3,482,345 | 78.8% | $939,603 | 21.2% | 1,231 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Deal of the Century | $4,397,136 | $3,520,605 | 80.1% | $876,531 | 19.9% | 1,217 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $4,338,821 | $3,326,994 | 76.7% | $1,011,827 | 23.3% | 1,402 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Big Chill | $3,812,757 | $2,967,617 | 77.8% | $845,140 | 22.2% | 829 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | All the Right Moves | $3,628,655 | $2,820,412 | 77.7% | $808,243 | 22.3% | 909 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Dead Zone | $3,160,690 | $2,344,008 | 74.2% | $816,682 | 25.8% | 1,140 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Right Stuff | $1,916,312 | $1,485,106 | 77.5% | $431,206 | 22.5% | 229 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | The Osterman Weekend | $1,880,969 | $1,415,075 | 75.2% | $465,894 | 24.8% | 670 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Educating Rita | $1,555,023 | $1,203,990 | 77.4% | $351,033 | 22.6% | 406 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Mr. Mom | $1,171,764 | $912,659 | 77.9% | $259,105 | 22.1% | 678 | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Risky Business | $1,113,617 | $824,340 | 74% | $289,277 | 26% | 748 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Under Fire | $1,004,201 | $715,233 | 71.2% | $288,968 | 28.8% | 440 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Running Brave | $544,730 | $441,145 | 81% | $103,585 | 19% | 234 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Brainstorm | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Testament | - | $317,996 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
