| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Scrooged | $16,261,322 | $13,027,842 | 80.1% | $3,233,480 | 19.9% | 1,262 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Land Before Time | $9,199,215 | $8,114,550 | 88.2% | $1,084,665 | 11.8% | 1,410 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Oliver & Company | $7,199,942 | $6,338,773 | 88% | $861,169 | 12% | 952 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Cocoon: The Return | $6,407,366 | $5,568,143 | 86.9% | $839,223 | 13.1% | 986 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $5,889,956 | $5,216,851 | 88.6% | $673,105 | 11.4% | 1,640 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Child's Play | $5,517,796 | $4,628,987 | 83.9% | $888,809 | 16.1% | 1,490 | 3 | United Artists | - | false |
| 7 | High Spirits | $2,405,116 | $2,020,396 | 84% | $384,720 | 16% | 826 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Accused | $2,013,961 | $1,600,449 | 79.5% | $413,512 | 20.5% | 851 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Fresh Horses | $1,887,144 | $1,553,260 | 82.3% | $333,884 | 17.7% | 1,276 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Iron Eagle II | $1,646,307 | $1,352,241 | 82.1% | $294,066 | 17.9% | 877 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | 1969 | $1,572,013 | $1,242,126 | 79% | $329,887 | 21% | 427 | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 12 | Everybody's All-American | $1,564,295 | $1,280,012 | 81.8% | $284,283 | 18.2% | 854 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | A Cry in the Dark | $1,208,469 | $914,190 | 75.6% | $294,279 | 24.4% | 319 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Mystic Pizza | $1,163,336 | $957,654 | 82.3% | $205,682 | 17.7% | 400 | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 15 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $899,279 | $721,424 | 80.2% | $177,855 | 19.8% | 637 | 23 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | They Live | $679,770 | $679,770 | 100% | $0 | - | 581 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | U2: Rattle and Hum | $330,181 | $248,306 | 75.2% | $81,875 | 24.8% | 461 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Lair of the White Worm | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 6 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Salaam Bombay! | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hanna's War | - | $60,986 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Without a Clue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Buster | - | $265,038 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Amsterdamned | - | $14,819 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Full Moon in Blue Water | - | $212,963 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Trans World Entertainment (TWE) | - | false |
