| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Secret of My Success | $10,104,490 | $7,412,160 | 73.4% | $2,692,330 | 26.6% | 1,344 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Aristocats 1987 Re-release | $5,088,019 | $3,312,111 | 65.1% | $1,775,908 | 34.9% | 1,491 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Project X | $4,575,014 | $3,309,985 | 72.4% | $1,265,029 | 27.6% | 1,022 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Blind Date | $4,216,987 | $3,287,916 | 78% | $929,071 | 22% | 1,390 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | $4,136,642 | $3,031,676 | 73.3% | $1,104,966 | 26.7% | 1,750 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon | $3,785,248 | $2,755,915 | 72.8% | $1,029,333 | 27.2% | 1,336 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Platoon | $3,691,716 | $2,582,868 | 70% | $1,108,848 | 30% | 1,509 | 18 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Raising Arizona | $3,325,824 | $2,451,750 | 73.7% | $874,074 | 26.3% | 696 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Tin Men | $1,764,762 | $1,341,210 | 76% | $423,552 | 24% | 722 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | $1,322,752 | $979,338 | 74% | $343,414 | 26% | 854 | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | Hoosiers | $1,091,524 | $785,187 | 71.9% | $306,337 | 28.1% | 926 | 23 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Evil Dead II | $587,446 | $455,838 | 77.6% | $131,608 | 22.4% | 280 | 6 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - | false |
| 13 | Prick Up Your Ears | $66,882 | $38,643 | 57.8% | $28,239 | 42.2% | 1 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Crocodile Dundee | - | $1,069,852 | - | - | - | 820 | 30 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Assault | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 31 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Petit Con | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Burglar | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Campus Man | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mannequin | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Making Mr. Right | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Defense of the Realm | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | Hemdale | - | false |
