| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $25,229,913 | $16,673,295 | 66.1% | $8,556,618 | 33.9% | 1,966 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $25,018,047 | $16,386,295 | 65.5% | $8,631,752 | 34.5% | 1,687 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Natural | $4,767,058 | $3,424,331 | 71.8% | $1,342,727 | 28.2% | 1,012 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Breakin' | $3,580,012 | $2,541,180 | 71% | $1,038,832 | 29% | 1,068 | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 5 | Streets of Fire | $3,338,000 | $2,426,500 | 72.7% | $911,500 | 27.3% | 1,150 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Romancing the Stone | $3,274,829 | $2,262,713 | 69.1% | $1,012,116 | 30.9% | 1,056 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Once Upon a Time in America | $3,088,879 | $2,412,014 | 78.1% | $676,865 | 21.9% | 894 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Police Academy | $2,418,055 | $1,723,418 | 71.3% | $694,637 | 28.7% | 1,068 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Sixteen Candles | $1,869,000 | $1,291,472 | 69.1% | $577,528 | 30.9% | 728 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Footloose | $1,555,497 | $1,066,786 | 68.6% | $488,711 | 31.4% | 702 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Firestarter | $1,157,000 | $918,624 | 79.4% | $238,376 | 20.6% | 672 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Splash | $972,669 | $972,669 | 100% | $0 | - | 771 | 13 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | This Is Spinal Tap | $208,954 | $140,096 | 67% | $68,858 | 33% | 139 | 14 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Moscow on the Hudson | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Alphabet City | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Bounty | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Making the Grade | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
