| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $24,968,873 | $15,214,805 | 60.9% | $9,754,068 | 39.1% | 1,532 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | $9,704,126 | $7,393,361 | 76.2% | $2,310,765 | 23.8% | 1,126 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 3 | City Heat | $8,414,483 | $6,301,694 | 74.9% | $2,112,789 | 25.1% | 1,393 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | The Terminator | $2,002,925 | $1,439,000 | 71.8% | $563,925 | 28.2% | 1,023 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Missing in Action | $1,749,132 | $1,298,647 | 74.2% | $450,485 | 25.8% | 1,174 | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 6 | Night of the Comet | $1,399,437 | $1,010,352 | 72.2% | $389,085 | 27.8% | 776 | 4 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 7 | Supergirl | $931,838 | $931,838 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,004 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Oh, God! You Devil | $915,588 | $732,668 | 80% | $182,920 | 20% | 958 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Amadeus | $911,341 | $634,773 | 69.6% | $276,568 | 30.4% | 337 | 12 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Falling in Love | $877,738 | $660,504 | 75.2% | $217,234 | 24.8% | 305 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $709,170 | $486,700 | 68.6% | $222,470 | 31.4% | 207 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 12 | Places in the Heart | $678,968 | $544,285 | 80.2% | $134,683 | 19.8% | 685 | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghostbusters | $462,506 | $360,628 | 78% | $101,878 | 22% | 431 | 27 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $176,933 | $130,609 | 73.8% | $46,324 | 26.2% | 167 | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Killing Fields | $82,141 | $56,308 | 68.6% | $25,833 | 31.4% | 3 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Savannah Smiles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Embassy Pictures | - | false |
| - | Just the Way You Are | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
