| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teachers | $8,142,188 | - | - | - | - | 1,721 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | All of Me | $5,222,803 | - | - | - | - | 1,200 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Places in the Heart | $5,098,296 | - | - | - | - | 691 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Irreconcilable Differences | $3,169,521 | - | - | - | - | 902 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Ghostbusters | $2,660,410 | $2,029,921 | 76.3% | $630,489 | 23.7% | 1,183 | 18 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Wild Life | $2,646,319 | - | - | - | - | 1,142 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | A Soldier's Story | $2,469,349 | - | - | - | - | 217 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Evil That Men Do | $2,052,012 | - | - | - | - | 1,030 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Purple Rain | $1,924,775 | - | - | - | - | 798 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Karate Kid | $1,604,674 | - | - | - | - | 948 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Gremlins | $1,132,252 | - | - | - | - | 628 | 18 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $1,103,357 | - | - | - | - | 400 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Tightrope | $986,491 | - | - | - | - | 665 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Amadeus | $850,292 | - | - | - | - | 66 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $473,470 | - | - | - | - | 90 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Country | $209,309 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Body Rock | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Impulse | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Until September | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Bear | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Woman in Red | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
