| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Terminator | $5,752,018 | $4,219,463 | 73.4% | $1,532,555 | 26.6% | 1,112 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Body Double | $3,040,746 | $2,387,024 | 78.5% | $653,722 | 21.5% | 1,418 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Places in the Heart | $3,010,938 | $2,532,800 | 84.1% | $478,138 | 15.9% | 864 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Terror in the Aisles | $2,723,856 | $2,171,747 | 79.7% | $552,109 | 20.3% | 1,134 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | A Soldier's Story | $2,716,354 | $2,140,140 | 78.8% | $576,214 | 21.2% | 580 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Teachers | $2,445,618 | $1,901,233 | 77.7% | $544,385 | 22.3% | 978 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | All of Me | $2,195,692 | $1,589,021 | 72.4% | $606,671 | 27.6% | 924 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Firstborn | $2,112,348 | $1,625,572 | 77% | $486,776 | 23% | 929 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Thief of Hearts | $1,911,312 | $1,418,301 | 74.2% | $493,011 | 25.8% | 880 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | American Dreamer | $1,808,423 | $1,430,686 | 79.1% | $377,737 | 20.9% | 762 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Ghostbusters | $1,545,916 | $1,216,256 | 78.7% | $329,660 | 21.3% | 780 | 22 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Little Drummer Girl | $1,318,024 | $1,007,744 | 76.5% | $310,280 | 23.5% | 532 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Amadeus | $1,094,952 | $887,477 | 81% | $207,475 | 19% | 107 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $221,707 | $167,913 | 75.7% | $53,794 | 24.3% | 76 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Killing Fields | $54,033 | $32,181 | 59.6% | $21,852 | 40.4% | 1 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Razor's Edge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
