| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $25,151,054 | +113.5% | 47.4% | 1 | Rocky IV | $25,151,054 | 100% | 2 | United Artists | - |
| 2 | 12 | $6,197,160 | +314.5% | 11.7% | 1 | Santa Claus: The Movie | $6,197,160 | 100% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $5,166,291 | -33.9% | 9.7% | 2 | King Solomon's Mines | $4,261,075 | 82.5% | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 3 | $4,533,384 | +19.2% | 8.6% | 1 | One Magic Christmas | $4,533,384 | 100% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $3,099,961 | -16.7% | 5.8% | 3 | Jagged Edge | $2,394,271 | 77.2% | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 6 | 7 | $2,465,529 | -6% | 4.7% | 1 | Back to the Future | $2,465,529 | 100% | 23 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $1,895,825 | -37.1% | 3.6% | 3 | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | $951,835 | 50.2% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 8 | 8 | $1,723,487 | -33.3% | 3.3% | 1 | Once Bitten | $1,723,487 | 100% | 3 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - |
| 9 | 10 | $1,311,830 | -34.6% | 2.5% | 1 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $1,311,830 | 100% | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 10 | 5 | $783,353 | -74.3% | 1.5% | 2 | Bad Medicine | $783,353 | 100% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 11 | 11 | $692,184 | -54.8% | 1.3% | 1 | That Was Then... This Is Now | $692,184 | 100% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
