| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills Cop | $15,321,332 | $11,515,665 | 75.2% | $3,805,667 | 24.8% | 2,006 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | City Heat | $4,022,476 | $3,259,447 | 81% | $763,029 | 19% | 1,556 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Protocol | $3,921,709 | $3,161,321 | 80.6% | $760,388 | 19.4% | 904 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | $3,889,669 | $3,105,068 | 79.8% | $784,601 | 20.2% | 1,091 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | Micki + Maude | $3,664,783 | $3,031,855 | 82.7% | $632,928 | 17.3% | 850 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Pinocchio 1984 Re-release | $3,588,789 | $3,014,949 | 84% | $573,840 | 16% | 1,144 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Starman | $3,535,952 | $2,989,938 | 84.6% | $546,014 | 15.4% | 1,201 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Cotton Club | $3,427,739 | $2,562,311 | 74.8% | $865,428 | 25.2% | 771 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Flamingo Kid | $3,349,066 | $2,656,281 | 79.3% | $692,785 | 20.7% | 623 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Dune | $3,135,510 | $2,390,736 | 76.2% | $744,774 | 23.8% | 967 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Johnny Dangerously | $2,852,841 | $2,241,620 | 78.6% | $611,221 | 21.4% | 1,009 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo | $2,233,486 | $1,832,052 | 82% | $401,434 | 18% | 908 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Runaway | $1,056,480 | $794,430 | 75.2% | $262,050 | 24.8% | 546 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Amadeus | $1,019,086 | $656,786 | 64.4% | $362,300 | 35.6% | 140 | 16 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Falling in Love | $567,712 | $441,107 | 77.7% | $126,605 | 22.3% | 337 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | A Passage to India | $404,323 | $290,952 | 72% | $113,371 | 28% | 14 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Supergirl | $390,108 | $285,108 | 73.1% | $105,000 | 26.9% | 276 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Killing Fields | $300,412 | $201,613 | 67.1% | $98,799 | 32.9% | 13 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Mrs. Soffel | $87,301 | $60,051 | 68.8% | $27,250 | 31.2% | 3 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 20 | Birdy | $53,173 | $43,656 | 82.1% | $9,517 | 17.9% | 3 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Terminator | - | $702,042 | - | - | - | 643 | 11 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Missing in Action | - | $402,204 | - | - | - | 469 | 8 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Oh, God! You Devil | - | $203,271 | - | - | - | 308 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Places in the Heart | - | $342,000 | - | - | - | 285 | 16 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Night of the Comet | - | $102,872 | - | - | - | 88 | 8 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | A Soldier's Story | - | $172,153 | - | - | - | 67 | 17 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Gods Must Be Crazy | - | $231,693 | - | - | - | 39 | 40 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | A Sunday in the Country | - | $103,710 | - | - | - | 13 | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Paris, Texas | - | $58,586 | - | - | - | 7 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Ghostbusters | - | - | - | - | - | - | 31 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
