| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Police Academy | $6,212,654 | $4,733,389 | 76.2% | $1,479,265 | 23.8% | 1,587 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Romancing the Stone | $6,190,012 | $4,673,725 | 75.5% | $1,516,287 | 24.5% | 1,086 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $4,352,052 | $3,351,346 | 77% | $1,000,706 | 23% | 1,162 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $3,820,130 | $3,010,727 | 78.8% | $809,403 | 21.2% | 1,418 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Splash | $3,705,120 | $2,854,681 | 77% | $850,439 | 23% | 1,153 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $3,125,527 | $2,474,838 | 79.2% | $650,689 | 20.8% | 721 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Footloose | $2,959,456 | $2,257,778 | 76.3% | $701,678 | 23.7% | 1,110 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Terms of Endearment | $1,618,913 | $1,139,684 | 70.4% | $479,229 | 29.6% | 655 | 24 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Iceman | $1,547,000 | $1,187,200 | 76.7% | $359,800 | 23.3% | 560 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Swing Shift | $1,096,274 | $1,096,274 | 100% | $0 | - | 656 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | This Is Spinal Tap | $659,712 | $470,293 | 71.3% | $189,419 | 28.7% | 206 | 9 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Champions | $108,282 | $82,229 | 75.9% | $26,053 | 24.1% | 55 | 2 | AVCO Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Children of the Corn | - | $1,538,087 | - | - | - | 582 | 8 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Weekend Pass | - | $1,028,205 | - | - | - | 313 | 13 | Crown | - | false |
| - | Purple Hearts | - | $104,263 | - | - | - | 29 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Hard to Hold | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Where the Boys Are | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Up the Creek | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
