| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $43,406,595 | $25,337,110 | 58.4% | $18,069,485 | 41.6% | 1,687 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Natural | $8,300,458 | - | - | - | - | 989 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Breakin' | $4,914,520 | - | - | - | - | 1,117 | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | Romancing the Stone | $4,881,203 | - | - | - | - | 1,110 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Police Academy | $3,411,943 | - | - | - | - | 1,203 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Sixteen Candles | $3,150,159 | - | - | - | - | 974 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Firestarter | $2,689,561 | - | - | - | - | 1,071 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Footloose | $2,344,253 | - | - | - | - | 912 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Splash | $2,235,340 | - | - | - | - | 1,073 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $1,783,395 | - | - | - | - | 742 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Moscow on the Hudson | $1,583,179 | - | - | - | - | 546 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Making the Grade | $1,519,426 | - | - | - | - | 916 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 13 | The Bounty | $1,073,102 | - | - | - | - | 371 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $500,377 | - | - | - | - | 201 | 13 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Alphabet City | - | - | - | - | - | 313 | 4 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Finders Keepers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Terms of Endearment | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
