| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Back to the Future | $10,563,053 | $7,149,345 | 67.7% | $3,413,708 | 32.3% | 1,550 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Teen Wolf | $6,211,426 | - | - | - | - | 1,425 | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 3 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | $4,711,380 | - | - | - | - | 894 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | American Ninja | $3,972,657 | - | - | - | - | 672 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 5 | Compromising Positions | $3,650,877 | - | - | - | - | 570 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Volunteers | $3,484,941 | - | - | - | - | 1,123 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Year of the Dragon | $3,151,939 | - | - | - | - | 834 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Gremlins 1985 Re-release | $2,788,927 | - | - | - | - | 1,174 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Summer Rental | $2,271,083 | - | - | - | - | 953 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Cocoon | $2,240,737 | - | - | - | - | 882 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Ghostbusters 1985 Re-release | $2,129,119 | - | - | - | - | 888 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | $2,073,615 | - | - | - | - | 997 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | The Return of the Living Dead | $2,052,868 | - | - | - | - | 945 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | $1,442,952 | - | - | - | - | 672 | 16 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Silverado | $1,371,696 | - | - | - | - | 594 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Fright Night | $1,290,002 | - | - | - | - | 536 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Real Genius | - | - | - | - | - | 609 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Follow That Bird | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Stryker | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lonely Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Godzilla 1985 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
