| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | All of Me | $7,536,433 | $5,803,848 | 77% | $1,732,585 | 23% | 1,192 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Evil That Men Do | $5,906,595 | $4,538,400 | 76.8% | $1,368,195 | 23.2% | 1,464 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Ghostbusters | $3,520,885 | $2,850,809 | 81% | $670,076 | 19% | 1,389 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Purple Rain | $2,861,110 | $2,157,231 | 75.4% | $703,879 | 24.6% | 1,006 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Tightrope | $2,641,772 | $2,053,476 | 77.7% | $588,296 | 22.3% | 1,140 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Until September | $2,563,801 | $1,983,321 | 77.4% | $580,480 | 22.6% | 1,114 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | The Karate Kid | $2,263,588 | $1,871,102 | 82.7% | $392,486 | 17.3% | 1,065 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Woman in Red | $1,978,389 | $1,508,284 | 76.2% | $470,105 | 23.8% | 903 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Revenge of the Nerds | $1,842,555 | $1,426,017 | 77.4% | $416,538 | 22.6% | 877 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Gremlins | $1,396,305 | $1,119,446 | 80.2% | $276,859 | 19.8% | 792 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Red Dawn | $1,152,594 | $882,236 | 76.5% | $270,358 | 23.5% | 749 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Amadeus | $903,147 | $505,276 | 56% | $397,871 | 44% | 25 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ninja III: The Domination | $895,524 | $895,524 | 100% | $0 | - | 475 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 14 | The River Rat | $546,173 | $441,466 | 80.8% | $104,707 | 19.2% | 316 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Places in the Heart | $407,108 | $274,279 | 67.4% | $132,829 | 32.6% | 14 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | A Soldier's Story | $268,538 | $166,401 | 62% | $102,137 | 38% | 6 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Windy City | $139,343 | $104,754 | 75.2% | $34,589 | 24.8% | 28 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $99,846 | $72,720 | 72.8% | $27,126 | 27.2% | 40 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Exterminator 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Dreamscape | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
