| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Back to the Future | $6,617,090 | $5,214,665 | 78.8% | $1,402,425 | 21.2% | 1,519 | 11 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Teen Wolf | $4,016,440 | $3,086,552 | 76.8% | $929,888 | 23.2% | 1,324 | 3 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 3 | Compromising Positions | $2,751,040 | $2,111,177 | 76.7% | $639,863 | 23.3% | 572 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | $2,715,447 | $2,190,447 | 80.7% | $525,000 | 19.3% | 888 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Year of the Dragon | $1,990,439 | $1,461,768 | 73.4% | $528,671 | 26.6% | 796 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 6 | American Ninja | $1,971,630 | $1,530,579 | 77.6% | $441,051 | 22.4% | 672 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | Volunteers | $1,799,532 | $1,606,392 | 89.3% | $193,140 | 10.7% | 999 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Cocoon | $1,790,260 | $1,332,539 | 74.4% | $457,721 | 25.6% | 788 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Silverado | $1,593,089 | $1,248,818 | 78.4% | $344,271 | 21.6% | 725 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Ghostbusters 1985 Re-release | $1,422,900 | $1,145,353 | 80.5% | $277,547 | 19.5% | 864 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Summer Rental | $1,332,806 | $1,036,697 | 77.8% | $296,109 | 22.2% | 781 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Gremlins 1985 Re-release | $1,243,837 | $979,333 | 78.7% | $264,504 | 21.3% | 862 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | $717,411 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Return of the Living Dead | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Real Genius | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | National Lampoon's European Vacation | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Fright Night | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Boarding School | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
