| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | $6,428,552 | $4,879,107 | 75.9% | $1,549,445 | 24.1% | 1,203 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Blue City | $3,519,815 | $2,748,096 | 78.1% | $771,719 | 21.9% | 1,050 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Legend | $2,270,330 | $1,764,900 | 77.7% | $505,430 | 22.3% | 1,060 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Money Pit | $2,262,985 | $1,856,400 | 82% | $406,585 | 18% | 1,105 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | $1,649,098 | $1,335,178 | 81% | $313,920 | 19% | 1,103 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Critters | $1,453,970 | $1,161,099 | 79.9% | $292,871 | 20.1% | 595 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Gung Ho | $1,364,277 | $1,092,299 | 80.1% | $271,978 | 19.9% | 872 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Murphy's Law | $1,344,510 | $1,041,355 | 77.4% | $303,155 | 22.6% | 915 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 9 | Pretty in Pink | $1,336,164 | $1,041,813 | 78% | $294,351 | 22% | 864 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Violets Are Blue... | $1,158,736 | $877,790 | 75.8% | $280,946 | 24.2% | 654 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Color Purple | $1,029,834 | $728,794 | 70.8% | $301,040 | 29.2% | 745 | 20 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | No Retreat, No Surrender | $923,915 | $739,723 | 80.1% | $184,192 | 19.9% | 241 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
