| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | - | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $11,183,148 | - | 1,594 | - | $7,015 | $11,183,148 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | true | false |
| 2 | 1 | Police Academy | $5,705,834 | -22.9% | 1,370 | +12 | $4,164 | $37,798,967 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $5,553,403 | -0.3% | 967 | +131 | $5,742 | $19,647,318 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 4 | 2 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $4,526,660 | -23.2% | 860 | +86 | $5,263 | $20,836,631 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 4 | Splash | $3,659,551 | -17.8% | 1,052 | -16 | $3,478 | $42,196,550 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $3,098,900 | -12.4% | 646 | +28 | $4,797 | $7,687,269 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 10 | Terms of Endearment | $2,301,607 | +110% | 918 | +409 | $2,507 | $97,511,176 | 21 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 5 | Where the Boys Are | $2,299,260 | -37.3% | 1,403 | -11 | $1,638 | $6,850,000 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | - | Swing Shift | $2,270,136 | - | 710 | - | $3,197 | $2,270,136 | 1 | Warner Bros. | true | false |
| 10 | 9 | Footloose | $2,237,610 | -26.7% | 998 | -274 | $2,242 | $56,747,753 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 8 | Up the Creek | $2,123,665 | -33.9% | 1,206 | -140 | $1,760 | $6,234,000 | 2 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 7 | Hard to Hold | $1,899,375 | -44.3% | 1,013 | -4 | $1,875 | $5,991,375 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | - | Iceman | $1,836,120 | - | 642 | - | $2,860 | $1,836,120 | 1 | Universal Pictures | true | false |
| 14 | 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $131,777 | -12.2% | 28 | -3 | $4,706 | $925,604 | 7 | Embassy Pictures | false | false |
