| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $3,860,189 | -26% | 21.2% | 3 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | $1,788,556 | 46.3% | 33 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 5 | $3,853,902 | +197.8% | 21.1% | 2 | On Golden Pond | $3,853,902 | 100% | 8 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $3,248,177 | -31.4% | 17.8% | 2 | Taps | $2,006,988 | 61.8% | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 2 | $2,965,916 | -39.6% | 16.3% | 3 | Absence of Malice | $2,097,019 | 70.7% | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $1,897,034 | -43.9% | 10.4% | 3 | Sharky's Machine | $1,327,346 | 70% | 6 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 7 | $1,348,576 | +90.2% | 7.4% | 2 | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | $1,348,576 | 100% | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
