| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghostbusters | $17,359,007 | $11,136,134 | 64.2% | $6,222,873 | 35.8% | 1,469 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Gremlins | $13,175,135 | $8,618,360 | 65.4% | $4,556,775 | 34.6% | 1,511 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | The Karate Kid | $7,940,721 | $5,294,234 | 66.7% | $2,646,487 | 33.3% | 934 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Bachelor Party | $7,921,802 | $5,222,559 | 65.9% | $2,699,243 | 34.1% | 1,276 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $7,790,465 | $5,106,489 | 65.6% | $2,683,976 | 34.4% | 1,311 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Cannonball Run II | $7,671,009 | $5,429,330 | 70.8% | $2,241,679 | 29.2% | 1,845 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Conan the Destroyer | $6,745,837 | $4,695,352 | 69.6% | $2,050,485 | 30.4% | 1,249 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | $3,881,111 | $2,601,086 | 67% | $1,280,025 | 33% | 1,042 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Rhinestone | $3,610,395 | $2,434,941 | 67.4% | $1,175,454 | 32.6% | 1,241 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Top Secret! | $3,314,545 | $2,211,770 | 66.7% | $1,102,775 | 33.3% | 978 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Natural | $2,194,038 | $1,576,403 | 71.8% | $617,635 | 28.2% | 807 | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Romancing the Stone | - | $1,113,711 | - | - | - | 627 | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Pope of Greenwich Village | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
