| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $12,212,080 | $9,331,746 | 76.4% | $2,880,334 | 23.6% | 1,576 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Scrooged | $9,472,873 | $7,505,520 | 79.2% | $1,967,353 | 20.8% | 1,262 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Tequila Sunrise | $8,423,805 | $6,350,974 | 75.4% | $2,072,831 | 24.6% | 1,115 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | The Land Before Time | $4,258,505 | $3,535,560 | 83% | $722,945 | 17% | 1,403 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Oliver & Company | $3,828,096 | $3,100,641 | 81% | $727,455 | 19% | 952 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $2,881,850 | $2,389,314 | 82.9% | $492,536 | 17.1% | 1,640 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Child's Play | $2,800,725 | $2,271,277 | 81.1% | $529,448 | 18.9% | 1,457 | 4 | United Artists | - | false |
| 8 | Cocoon: The Return | $2,679,575 | $2,117,292 | 79% | $562,283 | 21% | 986 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Accused | $958,580 | $725,273 | 75.7% | $233,307 | 24.3% | 812 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | High Spirits | $869,050 | $687,232 | 79.1% | $181,818 | 20.9% | 821 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Iron Eagle II | $796,876 | $612,134 | 76.8% | $184,742 | 23.2% | 858 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Mystic Pizza | $631,945 | $485,200 | 76.8% | $146,745 | 23.2% | 400 | 7 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 13 | Watchers | $345,363 | $260,820 | 75.5% | $84,543 | 24.5% | 161 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | U2: Rattle and Hum | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | 1969 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | They Live | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | A Cry in the Dark | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Fresh Horses | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Lair of the White Worm | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Everybody's All-American | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
