| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy | $9,485,197 | $7,403,955 | 78.1% | $2,081,242 | 21.9% | 1,358 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $7,385,995 | $5,895,148 | 79.8% | $1,490,847 | 20.2% | 774 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Romancing the Stone | $7,118,116 | $5,570,693 | 78.3% | $1,547,423 | 21.7% | 836 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Splash | $5,460,902 | $4,453,841 | 81.6% | $1,007,061 | 18.4% | 1,068 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Moscow on the Hudson | $4,588,369 | $3,536,687 | 77.1% | $1,051,682 | 22.9% | 618 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Where the Boys Are | $4,550,740 | $3,665,088 | 80.5% | $885,652 | 19.5% | 1,414 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Up the Creek | $4,110,335 | $3,210,882 | 78.1% | $899,453 | 21.9% | 1,346 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Hard to Hold | $4,092,000 | $3,410,001 | 83.3% | $681,999 | 16.7% | 1,017 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Footloose | $3,821,937 | $3,052,131 | 79.9% | $769,806 | 20.1% | 1,272 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Terms of Endearment | $1,782,444 | $1,095,804 | 61.5% | $686,640 | 38.5% | 509 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Against All Odds | $1,260,758 | $995,283 | 78.9% | $265,475 | 21.1% | 539 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Racing with the Moon | $1,019,671 | $807,955 | 79.2% | $211,716 | 20.8% | 372 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | This Is Spinal Tap | $209,526 | $150,145 | 71.7% | $59,381 | 28.3% | 31 | 6 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tank | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Misunderstood | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Ice Pirates | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
