| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | $25,254,586 | $15,093,905 | 59.8% | $10,160,681 | 40.2% | 1,479 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Gremlins | $22,487,211 | $13,949,228 | 62% | $8,537,983 | 38% | 1,511 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $14,082,954 | $9,116,347 | 64.7% | $4,966,607 | 35.3% | 1,685 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $10,167,675 | $6,637,657 | 65.3% | $3,530,018 | 34.7% | 1,907 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Beat Street | $4,209,549 | $2,916,763 | 69.3% | $1,292,786 | 30.7% | 1,336 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Natural | $3,524,610 | $2,502,952 | 71% | $1,021,658 | 29% | 992 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Romancing the Stone | $2,572,150 | $1,688,123 | 65.6% | $884,027 | 34.4% | 910 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Police Academy | $2,093,349 | $1,415,821 | 67.6% | $677,528 | 32.4% | 950 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Breakin' | $1,730,711 | $1,106,545 | 63.9% | $624,166 | 36.1% | 853 | 7 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 10 | Sixteen Candles | $1,107,000 | $668,170 | 60.4% | $438,830 | 39.6% | 622 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Footloose | $743,987 | $743,987 | 100% | $0 | - | 585 | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Streets of Fire | $632,150 | $632,150 | 100% | $0 | - | 470 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Under the Volcano | $71,294 | $31,000 | 43.5% | $40,294 | 56.5% | 1 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Once Upon a Time in America | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
