| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | All of Me | $6,578,403 | $5,258,421 | 79.9% | $1,319,982 | 20.1% | 1,197 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Wild Life | $4,811,921 | $4,001,400 | 83.2% | $810,521 | 16.8% | 1,140 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Irreconcilable Differences | $3,834,893 | $3,076,894 | 80.2% | $757,999 | 19.8% | 902 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | The Evil That Men Do | $3,551,296 | $3,021,623 | 85.1% | $529,673 | 14.9% | 1,464 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Ghostbusters | $2,985,501 | $2,373,369 | 79.5% | $612,132 | 20.5% | 1,263 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Purple Rain | $2,312,788 | $1,752,753 | 75.8% | $560,035 | 24.2% | 914 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | The Karate Kid | $1,963,334 | $1,517,087 | 77.3% | $446,247 | 22.7% | 961 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Tightrope | $1,617,542 | $1,274,881 | 78.8% | $342,661 | 21.2% | 830 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Bear | $1,542,222 | $1,160,644 | 75.3% | $381,578 | 24.7% | 750 | 1 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Impulse | $1,324,560 | $995,570 | 75.2% | $328,990 | 24.8% | 376 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Until September | $1,306,356 | $1,018,674 | 78% | $287,682 | 22% | 863 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | The Woman in Red | $1,158,189 | $977,439 | 84.4% | $180,750 | 15.6% | 660 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Gremlins | $957,735 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Amadeus | $856,813 | $500,910 | 58.5% | $355,903 | 41.5% | 25 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Body Rock | $817,580 | $631,849 | 77.3% | $185,731 | 22.7% | 240 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | A Soldier's Story | $564,454 | $378,914 | 67.1% | $185,540 | 32.9% | 19 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Places in the Heart | $332,848 | $254,524 | 76.5% | $78,324 | 23.5% | 14 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $274,305 | $210,686 | 76.8% | $63,619 | 23.2% | 58 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 19 | Country | $47,182 | $24,443 | 51.8% | $22,739 | 48.2% | 1 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Red Dawn | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The River Rat | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Windy City | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Revenge of the Nerds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Split Image | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
