| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Red Heat | $11,944,141 | $8,133,822 | 68.1% | $3,810,319 | 31.9% | 1,885 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Big | $10,717,114 | $6,614,557 | 61.7% | $4,102,557 | 38.3% | 1,174 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | The Great Outdoors | $9,672,186 | $6,121,115 | 63.3% | $3,551,071 | 36.7% | 1,223 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Crocodile Dundee II | $9,170,524 | $6,114,018 | 66.7% | $3,056,506 | 33.3% | 2,394 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Bull Durham | $9,048,599 | $5,009,301 | 55.4% | $4,039,298 | 44.6% | 1,238 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Big Business | $7,663,695 | $5,047,667 | 65.9% | $2,616,028 | 34.1% | 1,167 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Willow | $4,587,850 | $2,915,922 | 63.6% | $1,671,928 | 36.4% | 1,029 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Funny Farm | $4,137,401 | $2,771,973 | 67% | $1,365,428 | 33% | 1,477 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Presidio | $4,043,954 | $2,742,372 | 67.8% | $1,301,582 | 32.2% | 1,168 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Rambo III | $3,789,356 | $2,745,356 | 72.4% | $1,044,000 | 27.6% | 1,921 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Poltergeist III | $3,097,750 | $2,093,783 | 67.6% | $1,003,967 | 32.4% | 1,467 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Beetlejuice | $1,183,968 | $772,053 | 65.2% | $411,915 | 34.8% | 1,161 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | A World Apart | $35,835 | $20,815 | 58.1% | $15,020 | 41.9% | 1 | 1 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Moderns | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | 10 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | White Mischief | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Colors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Friday the 13th: The New Blood | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Good Morning, Vietnam | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
