| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Crocodile Dundee | $11,337,214 | $8,038,855 | 70.9% | $3,298,359 | 29.1% | 879 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Stand by Me | $3,499,688 | $2,740,017 | 78.3% | $759,671 | 21.7% | 841 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Top Gun | $3,391,335 | $2,568,684 | 75.7% | $822,651 | 24.3% | 1,344 | 20 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Boy Who Could Fly | $1,990,440 | $1,606,156 | 80.7% | $384,284 | 19.3% | 661 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid Part II | $1,727,316 | $1,437,046 | 83.2% | $290,270 | 16.8% | 1,290 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Ruthless People | $1,663,588 | $1,285,442 | 77.3% | $378,146 | 22.7% | 1,002 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Fly | $1,454,343 | $1,089,025 | 74.9% | $365,318 | 25.1% | 967 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Aliens | $1,404,676 | $1,042,070 | 74.2% | $362,606 | 25.8% | 924 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Nothing in Common | $1,247,104 | $1,077,104 | 86.4% | $170,000 | 13.6% | 944 | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Back to School | $1,198,151 | $923,918 | 77.1% | $274,233 | 22.9% | 893 | 16 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | $1,138,504 | $900,315 | 79.1% | $238,189 | 20.9% | 779 | 17 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Blue Velvet | $900,805 | $645,016 | 71.6% | $255,789 | 28.4% | 98 | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 13 | The Name of the Rose | $707,021 | $494,571 | 70% | $212,450 | 30% | 42 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Shanghai Surprise | $146,103 | $109,783 | 75.1% | $36,320 | 24.9% | 177 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Weekend Warriors | - | $53,400 | - | - | - | 75 | 5 | Moviestore Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Extremities | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Stranger Than Paradise | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Men's Club | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Radioactive Dreams | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| - | Heartbreakers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | About Last Night | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mona Lisa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Island Pictures | - | false |
