| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $16,824,955 | $11,514,444 | 68.4% | $5,310,511 | 31.6% | 1,532 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Dune | $8,292,461 | $6,025,091 | 72.7% | $2,267,370 | 27.3% | 915 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | City Heat | $5,778,279 | $4,313,253 | 74.6% | $1,465,026 | 25.4% | 1,393 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | $5,603,547 | $4,138,514 | 73.9% | $1,465,033 | 26.1% | 1,126 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | The Cotton Club | $4,213,649 | $2,903,603 | 68.9% | $1,310,046 | 31.1% | 808 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Starman | $4,040,189 | $2,872,022 | 71.1% | $1,168,167 | 28.9% | 1,261 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Terminator | $1,399,646 | $955,973 | 68.3% | $443,673 | 31.7% | 938 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Runaway | $1,198,279 | $1,198,279 | 100% | $0 | - | 720 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Falling in Love | $1,109,209 | $782,347 | 70.5% | $326,862 | 29.5% | 701 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Missing in Action | $1,066,631 | $762,343 | 71.5% | $304,288 | 28.5% | 970 | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 11 | Amadeus | $643,477 | $399,321 | 62.1% | $244,156 | 37.9% | 244 | 13 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Supergirl | $387,578 | $402,194 | 103.8% | $-14,616 | - | 601 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghostbusters | $330,659 | $240,776 | 72.8% | $89,883 | 27.2% | 329 | 28 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | A Passage to India | $129,711 | $84,580 | 65.2% | $45,131 | 34.8% | 3 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Killing Fields | $53,146 | $33,530 | 63.1% | $19,616 | 36.9% | 3 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | 1984 | $44,735 | $29,897 | 66.8% | $14,838 | 33.2% | 1 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
