| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Karate Kid Part II | $20,014,510 | $12,652,336 | 63.2% | $7,362,174 | 36.8% | 1,323 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Legal Eagles | $12,425,498 | $8,043,360 | 64.7% | $4,382,138 | 35.3% | 1,248 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Back to School | $12,410,304 | $7,812,806 | 63% | $4,597,498 | 37% | 1,610 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | $9,524,784 | $5,721,799 | 60.1% | $3,802,985 | 39.9% | 1,330 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Top Gun | $9,465,579 | $5,810,601 | 61.4% | $3,654,978 | 38.6% | 1,531 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Cobra | $2,933,559 | $1,955,484 | 66.7% | $978,075 | 33.3% | 1,577 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Poltergeist II: The Other Side | $2,814,585 | $1,870,990 | 66.5% | $943,595 | 33.5% | 1,405 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Short Circuit | $2,540,984 | $1,551,984 | 61.1% | $989,000 | 38.9% | 1,302 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Raw Deal | $2,428,174 | $1,600,702 | 65.9% | $827,472 | 34.1% | 1,332 | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 10 | My Little Pony: The Movie | $1,633,024 | $953,025 | 58.4% | $679,999 | 41.6% | 1,003 | 3 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 11 | SpaceCamp | $1,557,008 | $945,516 | 60.7% | $611,492 | 39.3% | 1,024 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Manhattan Project | $1,166,358 | $756,119 | 64.8% | $410,239 | 35.2% | 834 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Turtle Diary | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Invaders from Mars | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Sweet Liberty | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
