| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Short Circuit | $6,609,284 | $5,346,808 | 80.9% | $1,262,476 | 19.1% | 1,033 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | $4,217,205 | $3,054,235 | 72.4% | $1,162,970 | 27.6% | 1,203 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Fire with Fire | $2,275,809 | $1,770,043 | 77.8% | $505,766 | 22.2% | 1,000 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Blue City | $1,876,711 | $1,406,036 | 74.9% | $470,675 | 25.1% | 1,050 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Money Pit | $1,723,735 | $1,354,540 | 78.6% | $369,195 | 21.4% | 1,034 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dangerously Close | $1,552,505 | $1,180,506 | 76% | $371,999 | 24% | 827 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 7 | Critters | $1,049,505 | $818,018 | 77.9% | $231,487 | 22.1% | 621 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 8 | Gung Ho | $1,028,775 | $801,116 | 77.9% | $227,659 | 22.1% | 776 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | $1,025,203 | $789,449 | 77% | $235,754 | 23% | 859 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Pretty in Pink | $938,732 | $710,789 | 75.7% | $227,943 | 24.3% | 697 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Legend | $934,715 | $934,715 | 100% | $0 | - | 865 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wise Guys | - | $848,184 | - | - | - | 424 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Violets Are Blue... | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Murphy's Law | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
