| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy | $10,744,196 | $8,061,398 | 75% | $2,682,798 | 25% | 1,063 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $8,923,976 | $6,517,732 | 73% | $2,406,244 | 27% | 753 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Splash | $7,199,013 | $5,584,853 | 77.6% | $1,614,160 | 22.4% | 1,078 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Romancing the Stone | $6,975,799 | $5,105,741 | 73.2% | $1,870,058 | 26.8% | 823 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Footloose | $5,326,837 | $4,166,896 | 78.2% | $1,159,941 | 21.8% | 1,360 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Against All Odds | $2,080,952 | $1,668,891 | 80.2% | $412,061 | 19.8% | 741 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Ice Pirates | $1,910,784 | $1,499,406 | 78.5% | $411,378 | 21.5% | 1,012 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Tank | $1,889,000 | $1,501,500 | 79.5% | $387,500 | 20.5% | 1,050 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Children of the Corn | $1,779,720 | $1,427,770 | 80.2% | $351,950 | 19.8% | 556 | 4 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Racing with the Moon | $1,629,003 | $1,277,091 | 78.4% | $351,912 | 21.6% | 389 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Terms of Endearment | $1,282,021 | $899,275 | 70.2% | $382,746 | 29.8% | 545 | 20 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Misunderstood | $1,165,186 | $916,967 | 78.7% | $248,219 | 21.3% | 741 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | This Is Spinal Tap | $240,467 | $190,726 | 79.3% | $49,741 | 20.7% | 26 | 5 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Dresser | - | - | - | - | - | 168 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lassiter | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Big Chill | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blame It on Rio | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Unfaithfully Yours | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
