| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Footloose | $8,075,426 | $6,617,737 | 82% | $1,457,689 | 18% | 1,384 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Blame It on Rio | $4,129,171 | $3,258,618 | 78.9% | $870,553 | 21.1% | 1,234 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Lassiter | $3,739,286 | $2,933,067 | 78.4% | $806,219 | 21.6% | 945 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Terms of Endearment | $3,671,102 | $2,808,728 | 76.5% | $862,374 | 23.5% | 1,238 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Unfaithfully Yours | $3,131,962 | $2,561,970 | 81.8% | $569,992 | 18.2% | 809 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Right Stuff | $1,628,577 | $1,318,438 | 81% | $310,139 | 19% | 624 | 19 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Broadway Danny Rose | $1,587,009 | $1,301,278 | 82% | $285,731 | 18% | 582 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Angel | $1,558,272 | $1,250,968 | 80.3% | $307,304 | 19.7% | 499 | 7 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Never Cry Wolf | $1,438,879 | $1,192,265 | 82.9% | $246,614 | 17.1% | 528 | 21 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Silkwood | $1,392,443 | $1,076,927 | 77.3% | $315,516 | 22.7% | 687 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Scarface | $998,000 | $786,760 | 78.8% | $211,240 | 21.2% | 442 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Weekend Pass | - | $973,936 | - | - | - | 386 | 4 | Crown | - | false |
| - | Crackers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Yentl | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
