| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rocky IV | $13,965,188 | $11,189,102 | 80.1% | $2,776,086 | 19.9% | 1,325 | 3 | United Artists | - | false |
| 2 | Spies Like Us | $10,940,638 | $8,614,039 | 78.7% | $2,326,599 | 21.3% | 1,556 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | White Nights | $6,007,586 | $4,549,095 | 75.7% | $1,458,491 | 24.3% | 891 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Young Sherlock Holmes | $3,932,947 | $2,538,234 | 64.5% | $1,394,713 | 35.5% | 920 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Santa Claus | $3,756,824 | $3,146,824 | 83.8% | $610,000 | 16.2% | 970 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | One Magic Christmas | $2,074,124 | $1,711,966 | 82.5% | $362,158 | 17.5% | 827 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | King Solomon's Mines | $1,820,421 | $1,500,882 | 82.4% | $319,539 | 17.6% | 1,106 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 8 | Back to the Future | $1,224,583 | $985,468 | 80.5% | $239,115 | 19.5% | 898 | 24 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Jagged Edge | $1,070,426 | $852,781 | 79.7% | $217,645 | 20.3% | 868 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $603,897 | $436,469 | 72.3% | $167,428 | 27.7% | 601 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | Krush Groove | $313,014 | $313,014 | 100% | $0 | - | 289 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Agnes of God | $283,579 | $283,579 | 100% | $0 | - | 492 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Fool for Love | $81,095 | $55,637 | 68.6% | $25,458 | 31.4% | 2 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 14 | Trouble in Mind | $3,603 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | Bad Medicine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | That Was Then... This Is Now | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Target | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Death Wish 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
