| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Terms of Endearment | $4,226,075 | $3,125,453 | 74% | $1,100,622 | 26% | 260 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | A Christmas Story | $3,166,850 | $2,659,752 | 84% | $507,098 | 16% | 924 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 3 | The Big Chill | $2,465,840 | $2,037,252 | 82.6% | $428,588 | 17.4% | 832 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Never Say Never Again | $1,694,234 | $1,326,436 | 78.3% | $367,798 | 21.7% | 944 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | All the Right Moves | $1,166,433 | $936,935 | 80.3% | $229,498 | 19.7% | 890 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | $1,020,600 | $1,020,600 | 100% | $0 | - | 243 | 9 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 7 | Educating Rita | $953,802 | $753,983 | 79% | $199,819 | 21% | 405 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Right Stuff | $858,566 | $681,997 | 79.4% | $176,569 | 20.6% | 235 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | A Night in Heaven | $827,458 | $629,814 | 76.1% | $197,644 | 23.9% | 700 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | The Dead Zone | $777,995 | $777,995 | 100% | $0 | - | 720 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Amityville 3-D | $718,289 | $718,289 | 100% | $0 | - | 755 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Richard Pryor... Here and Now | $714,456 | $714,456 | 100% | $0 | - | 621 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Savage Islands | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Golden Seal | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
