| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Dick Tracy | $34,746,228 | $22,543,911 | 64.9% | $12,202,317 | 35.1% | 2,332 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Another 48 Hrs. | $15,985,009 | $10,724,254 | 67.1% | $5,260,755 | 32.9% | 2,301 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Total Recall | $15,743,925 | $10,223,600 | 64.9% | $5,520,325 | 35.1% | 2,095 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | $14,313,729 | $9,702,804 | 67.8% | $4,610,925 | 32.2% | 2,075 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Back to the Future Part III | $7,576,200 | $4,854,150 | 64.1% | $2,722,050 | 35.9% | 2,070 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Pretty Woman | $5,402,728 | $3,327,354 | 61.6% | $2,075,374 | 38.4% | 1,602 | 13 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Bird on a Wire | $4,914,285 | $3,150,900 | 64.1% | $1,763,385 | 35.9% | 1,620 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Adventures of Milo and Otis 1990 Re-release | $3,099,843 | $1,708,915 | 55.1% | $1,390,928 | 44.9% | 914 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $1,443,980 | $857,317 | 59.4% | $586,663 | 40.6% | 1,165 | 12 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Cadillac Man | $1,368,838 | $859,196 | 62.8% | $509,642 | 37.2% | 1,140 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Hunt for Red October | $911,336 | $602,680 | 66.1% | $308,656 | 33.9% | 554 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Driving Miss Daisy | $862,350 | $503,466 | 58.4% | $358,884 | 41.6% | 775 | 27 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Longtime Companion | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Waxwork | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Fire Birds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cinema Paradiso | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Miramax | - | false |
