| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Natural | $7,233,718 | $5,088,381 | 70.3% | $2,145,337 | 29.7% | 989 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Breakin' | $6,277,858 | $4,911,541 | 78.2% | $1,366,317 | 21.8% | 1,121 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 3 | Firestarter | $6,260,000 | $4,726,660 | 75.5% | $1,533,340 | 24.5% | 1,356 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Romancing the Stone | $4,184,745 | $3,034,528 | 72.5% | $1,150,217 | 27.5% | 1,024 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Sixteen Candles | $4,035,000 | $3,199,650 | 79.3% | $835,350 | 20.7% | 1,245 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Police Academy | $3,536,353 | $2,546,224 | 72% | $990,129 | 28% | 1,318 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Hardbodies | $2,514,703 | $1,840,580 | 73.2% | $674,123 | 26.8% | 1,594 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $2,008,064 | $1,441,270 | 71.8% | $566,794 | 28.2% | 838 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Footloose | $1,704,499 | $1,218,894 | 71.5% | $485,605 | 28.5% | 876 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Moscow on the Hudson | $1,694,504 | $1,205,461 | 71.1% | $489,043 | 28.9% | 635 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Splash | $1,663,764 | $1,219,328 | 73.3% | $444,436 | 26.7% | 723 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Bounty | $1,527,578 | $1,555,407 | 101.8% | $-27,829 | - | 860 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Children of the Corn | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Purple Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The House Where Evil Dwells | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
