| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Terms of Endearment | $4,732,565 | $3,498,813 | 73.9% | $1,233,752 | 26.1% | 260 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | A Christmas Story | $4,503,986 | $3,935,944 | 87.4% | $568,042 | 12.6% | 938 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 3 | The Big Chill | $3,332,852 | $2,933,954 | 88% | $398,898 | 12% | 825 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Never Say Never Again | $2,991,995 | $2,543,403 | 85% | $448,592 | 15% | 1,087 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Amityville 3-D | $2,143,278 | $1,862,750 | 86.9% | $280,528 | 13.1% | 1,253 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | $1,930,563 | $1,640,979 | 85% | $289,584 | 15% | 243 | 8 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 7 | All the Right Moves | $1,860,771 | $1,470,622 | 79% | $390,149 | 21% | 807 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | A Night in Heaven | $1,832,584 | $1,345,447 | 73.4% | $487,137 | 26.6% | 893 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Right Stuff | $1,392,799 | $1,190,368 | 85.5% | $202,431 | 14.5% | 233 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Golden Seal | $1,289,795 | $1,072,275 | 83.1% | $217,520 | 16.9% | 435 | 15 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 11 | The Dead Zone | $1,284,830 | $1,023,837 | 79.7% | $260,993 | 20.3% | 688 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Educating Rita | $1,240,541 | $1,082,353 | 87.2% | $158,188 | 12.8% | 391 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $1,199,176 | $1,150,063 | 95.9% | $49,113 | 4.1% | 658 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Savage Islands | $668,169 | $481,082 | 72% | $187,087 | 28% | 585 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Deal of the Century | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Of Unknown Origin | - | $540,446 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
