| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | $23,167,337 | $13,578,151 | 58.6% | $9,589,186 | 41.4% | 1,339 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Gremlins | $20,857,921 | $12,511,634 | 60% | $8,346,287 | 40% | 1,511 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $17,614,820 | $12,016,144 | 68.2% | $5,598,676 | 31.8% | 1,685 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $14,048,844 | $9,622,080 | 68.5% | $4,426,764 | 31.5% | 1,966 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Beat Street | $6,954,631 | $5,218,040 | 75% | $1,736,591 | 25% | 1,380 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Natural | $3,462,374 | $2,482,504 | 71.7% | $979,870 | 28.3% | 982 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Romancing the Stone | $2,287,158 | $1,567,492 | 68.5% | $719,666 | 31.5% | 885 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Breakin' | $1,803,465 | $1,248,844 | 69.2% | $554,621 | 30.8% | 874 | 6 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 9 | Streets of Fire | $1,625,000 | $1,202,700 | 74% | $422,300 | 26% | 1,055 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Police Academy | $1,556,401 | $1,088,344 | 69.9% | $468,057 | 30.1% | 811 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Once Upon a Time in America | $1,398,974 | $1,006,953 | 72% | $392,021 | 28% | 802 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Footloose | $1,163,324 | $748,909 | 64.4% | $414,415 | 35.6% | 566 | 17 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Sixteen Candles | $1,141,000 | $764,925 | 67% | $376,075 | 33% | 525 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Firestarter | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Splash | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | This Is Spinal Tap | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
