| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Splash | $8,783,216 | $6,452,183 | 73.5% | $2,331,033 | 26.5% | 861 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Footloose | $6,383,965 | $4,745,560 | 74.3% | $1,638,405 | 25.7% | 1,360 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Ice Pirates | $5,520,221 | $4,358,022 | 79% | $1,162,199 | 21% | 1,175 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Tank | $5,124,000 | $4,035,960 | 78.8% | $1,088,040 | 21.2% | 1,332 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Against All Odds | $3,574,003 | $2,609,391 | 73% | $964,612 | 27% | 946 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Children of the Corn | $3,066,864 | $2,756,864 | 89.9% | $310,000 | 10.1% | 653 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Terms of Endearment | $2,216,820 | $1,567,518 | 70.7% | $649,302 | 29.3% | 831 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Blame It on Rio | $1,702,996 | $1,237,484 | 72.7% | $465,512 | 27.3% | 692 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Lassiter | $1,546,986 | $1,143,991 | 74% | $402,995 | 26% | 784 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Unfaithfully Yours | $1,454,044 | $1,066,702 | 73.4% | $387,342 | 26.6% | 630 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Weekend Pass | $1,351,130 | $947,604 | 70.1% | $403,526 | 29.9% | 389 | 7 | Crown | - | false |
| 12 | The Hotel New Hampshire | $1,151,423 | $853,866 | 74.2% | $297,557 | 25.8% | 234 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | This Is Spinal Tap | $87,762 | $58,914 | 67.1% | $28,848 | 32.9% | 5 | 3 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mike's Murder | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | - | - | - | - | - | - | 44 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Harry & Son | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Angel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | New World Pictures | - | false |
