| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Sudden Impact | $13,737,549 | $9,688,561 | 70.5% | $4,048,988 | 29.5% | 1,530 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Scarface | $6,758,000 | $4,597,536 | 68% | $2,160,464 | 32% | 996 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Terms of Endearment | $5,997,753 | $4,245,520 | 70.8% | $1,752,233 | 29.2% | 945 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Christine | $4,396,306 | $3,408,904 | 77.5% | $987,402 | 22.5% | 1,045 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Christmas Story | $2,216,375 | $1,773,767 | 80% | $442,608 | 20% | 854 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | The Big Chill | $1,457,964 | $1,102,466 | 75.6% | $355,498 | 24.4% | 793 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Never Say Never Again | $909,128 | $666,311 | 73.3% | $242,817 | 26.7% | 718 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | The Smurfs and the Magic Flute | $814,493 | $631,140 | 77.5% | $183,353 | 22.5% | 207 | 10 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | All the Right Moves | $579,717 | $440,202 | 75.9% | $139,515 | 24.1% | 699 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Educating Rita | $530,723 | $396,723 | 74.8% | $134,000 | 25.2% | 395 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Right Stuff | $485,415 | $368,225 | 75.9% | $117,190 | 24.1% | 184 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Yentl | - | $3,050,219 | - | - | - | 501 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Amityville 3-D | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Night in Heaven | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Dead Zone | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
