| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Back to School | $14,797,218 | $8,881,035 | 60% | $5,916,183 | 40% | 1,605 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | $12,900,155 | $6,275,647 | 48.6% | $6,624,508 | 51.4% | 1,330 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Top Gun | $10,342,975 | $6,250,496 | 60.4% | $4,092,479 | 39.6% | 1,531 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Cobra | $4,149,096 | $2,783,728 | 67.1% | $1,365,368 | 32.9% | 1,964 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Raw Deal | $4,070,827 | $2,761,395 | 67.8% | $1,309,432 | 32.2% | 1,733 | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 6 | Poltergeist II: The Other Side | $3,392,933 | $2,222,901 | 65.5% | $1,170,032 | 34.5% | 1,556 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Short Circuit | $3,261,934 | $2,104,270 | 64.5% | $1,157,664 | 35.5% | 1,307 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | SpaceCamp | $2,447,888 | $1,576,064 | 64.4% | $871,824 | 35.6% | 983 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Manhattan Project | $2,263,876 | $1,503,545 | 66.4% | $760,331 | 33.6% | 827 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Invaders from Mars | $1,317,120 | $926,421 | 70.3% | $390,699 | 29.7% | 1,099 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 11 | My Little Pony: The Movie | $1,259,177 | $674,724 | 53.6% | $584,453 | 46.4% | 734 | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 12 | Sweet Liberty | $706,022 | $706,022 | 100% | $0 | - | 606 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Mona Lisa | $156,595 | $99,361 | 63.4% | $57,234 | 36.6% | 4 | 1 | Island Pictures | - | false |
| - | Turtle Diary | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | 18 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Critters | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Careful, He Might Hear You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | At Close Range | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
