| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rocky IV | $25,151,054 | $19,991,537 | 79.5% | $5,159,517 | 20.5% | 1,325 | 2 | United Artists | - | false |
| 2 | Santa Claus | $6,197,160 | $5,647,160 | 91.1% | $550,000 | 8.9% | 970 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | One Magic Christmas | $4,533,384 | $4,010,151 | 88.5% | $523,233 | 11.5% | 827 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | King Solomon's Mines | $4,261,075 | $3,799,341 | 89.2% | $461,734 | 10.8% | 1,122 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 5 | Back to the Future | $2,465,529 | $2,122,914 | 86.1% | $342,615 | 13.9% | 1,133 | 23 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Jagged Edge | $2,394,271 | $2,133,893 | 89.1% | $260,378 | 10.9% | 897 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Once Bitten | $1,723,487 | $1,489,874 | 86.4% | $233,613 | 13.6% | 903 | 3 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 8 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $1,311,830 | $1,040,005 | 79.3% | $271,825 | 20.7% | 682 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | $951,835 | $881,908 | 92.6% | $69,927 | 7.4% | 1,090 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Target | $943,990 | $774,288 | 82% | $169,702 | 18% | 603 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Death Wish 3 | $905,216 | $705,211 | 77.9% | $200,005 | 22.1% | 625 | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 12 | Bad Medicine | $783,353 | $783,353 | 100% | $0 | - | 688 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | White Nights | $705,690 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | That Was Then... This Is Now | $692,184 | $692,184 | 100% | $0 | - | 651 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Transylvania 6-5000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Commando | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Agnes of God | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Krush Groove | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
