| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Breakin' | $7,673,332 | $6,047,686 | 78.8% | $1,625,646 | 21.2% | 1,069 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 2 | Sixteen Candles | $5,275,000 | $4,461,520 | 84.6% | $813,480 | 15.4% | 1,240 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Romancing the Stone | $5,102,572 | $4,012,150 | 78.6% | $1,090,422 | 21.4% | 1,044 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Police Academy | $4,581,176 | $3,543,670 | 77.4% | $1,037,506 | 22.6% | 1,452 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Bounty | $4,252,514 | $2,622,306 | 61.7% | $1,630,208 | 38.3% | 986 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Hardbodies | $3,417,385 | $2,684,599 | 78.6% | $732,786 | 21.4% | 1,538 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $2,722,521 | $2,121,097 | 77.9% | $601,424 | 22.1% | 939 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Splash | $2,433,303 | $1,885,403 | 77.5% | $547,900 | 22.5% | 894 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Moscow on the Hudson | $2,237,489 | $1,758,800 | 78.6% | $478,689 | 21.4% | 639 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Footloose | $2,146,238 | $1,683,727 | 78.4% | $462,511 | 21.6% | 922 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $2,036,937 | $1,646,335 | 80.8% | $390,602 | 19.2% | 868 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Alphabet City | $1,523,968 | $1,172,292 | 76.9% | $351,676 | 23.1% | 321 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 13 | Children of the Corn | $1,267,525 | $1,010,334 | 79.7% | $257,191 | 20.3% | 421 | 9 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Purple Hearts | $686,675 | $515,053 | 75% | $171,622 | 25% | 370 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | This Is Spinal Tap | $519,558 | $372,174 | 71.6% | $147,384 | 28.4% | 179 | 10 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Iceman | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Weekend Pass | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Crown | - | false |
