| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $14,579,130 | +57.1% | 37.6% | 3 | Police Academy | $8,061,398 | 55.3% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $6,343,262 | -15.2% | 16.3% | 3 | Footloose | $4,166,896 | 65.7% | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $5,584,853 | -16.2% | 14.4% | 1 | Splash | $5,584,853 | 100% | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 8 | $5,105,741 | +254.8% | 13.2% | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $5,105,741 | 100% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 4 | $2,416,373 | -16.8% | 6.2% | 2 | The Ice Pirates | $1,499,406 | 62.1% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 6 | $1,668,891 | -24.8% | 4.3% | 2 | Against All Odds | $1,668,891 | 100% | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,501,500 | -47.5% | 3.9% | 1 | Tank | $1,501,500 | 100% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,427,770 | -17% | 3.7% | 1 | Children of the Corn | $1,427,770 | 100% | 4 | New World Pictures | - |
| 9 | 10 | $190,726 | +91.9% | 0.5% | 1 | This Is Spinal Tap | $190,726 | 100% | 5 | Embassy Pictures | - |
