| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $15,082,091 | $11,183,148 | 74.2% | $3,898,943 | 25.8% | 1,594 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Police Academy | $8,255,162 | $5,705,834 | 69.1% | $2,549,328 | 30.9% | 1,370 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Romancing the Stone | $8,128,550 | $5,553,403 | 68.3% | $2,575,147 | 31.7% | 967 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $6,490,403 | $4,526,660 | 69.7% | $1,963,743 | 30.3% | 860 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Splash | $5,679,072 | $3,659,551 | 64.4% | $2,019,521 | 35.6% | 1,052 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $4,442,811 | $3,098,900 | 69.8% | $1,343,911 | 30.2% | 646 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Footloose | $3,581,373 | $2,237,610 | 62.5% | $1,343,763 | 37.5% | 998 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Terms of Endearment | $3,538,714 | $2,301,607 | 65% | $1,237,107 | 35% | 918 | 22 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Where the Boys Are | $3,231,260 | $2,299,260 | 71.2% | $932,000 | 28.8% | 1,403 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Swing Shift | $3,098,278 | $2,270,136 | 73.3% | $828,142 | 26.7% | 710 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Up the Creek | $2,991,946 | $2,123,665 | 71% | $868,281 | 29% | 1,206 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Iceman | $2,690,000 | $1,836,120 | 68.3% | $853,880 | 31.7% | 642 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Hard to Hold | $2,632,000 | $1,899,375 | 72.2% | $732,625 | 27.8% | 1,013 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $203,679 | $131,777 | 64.7% | $71,902 | 35.3% | 28 | 7 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Racing with the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Against All Odds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
