| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | $19,027,192 | $11,148,617 | 58.6% | $7,878,575 | 41.4% | 1,464 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Gremlins | $15,283,507 | $9,023,178 | 59% | $6,260,329 | 41% | 1,511 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Cannonball Run II | $12,884,055 | $8,323,948 | 64.6% | $4,560,107 | 35.4% | 1,778 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Conan the Destroyer | $10,719,465 | $6,958,872 | 64.9% | $3,760,593 | 35.1% | 1,117 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $9,612,778 | $5,741,844 | 59.7% | $3,870,934 | 40.3% | 1,546 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Karate Kid | $7,989,439 | $4,500,861 | 56.3% | $3,488,578 | 43.7% | 938 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Bachelor Party | $7,554,822 | $4,573,530 | 60.5% | $2,981,292 | 39.5% | 1,081 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Rhinestone | $5,621,299 | $3,540,140 | 63% | $2,081,159 | 37% | 1,630 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $5,139,288 | $3,101,663 | 60.4% | $2,037,625 | 39.6% | 1,083 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Top Secret! | $4,282,399 | $2,588,053 | 60.4% | $1,694,346 | 39.6% | 1,100 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Natural | $2,096,622 | $1,492,203 | 71.2% | $604,419 | 28.8% | 702 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Pope of Greenwich Village | $1,891,909 | $1,181,274 | 62.4% | $710,635 | 37.6% | 592 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Police Academy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Beat Street | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
