| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $19,437,856 | -16% | 42.7% | 2 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | $10,425,071 | 53.6% | 8 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 2 | 4 | $6,231,894 | +41.1% | 13.7% | 4 | An Officer and a Gentleman | $3,304,679 | 53% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $6,143,043 | -8.7% | 13.5% | 5 | Night Shift | $2,539,633 | 41.3% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 3 | $4,663,041 | -9.4% | 10.2% | 2 | Young Doctors in Love | $2,590,344 | 55.6% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 5 | $2,943,876 | -7.7% | 6.5% | 3 | Poltergeist | $1,847,018 | 62.7% | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 6 | $2,405,990 | -14.2% | 5.3% | 1 | Rocky III | $2,405,990 | 100% | 10 | United Artists | - |
| 7 | 8 | $1,435,056 | -14.7% | 3.1% | 1 | Annie | $1,435,056 | 100% | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,198,339 | -45.5% | 2.6% | 1 | Tron | $1,198,339 | 100% | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,099,426 | +15% | 2.4% | 1 | The Sword and the Sorcerer | $1,099,426 | 100% | 15 | - | - |
