| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 3 | $5,797,252 | +18% | 19.1% | 2 | Breakin' | $4,036,396 | 69.6% | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 2 | 1 | $5,796,236 | -26.9% | 19.1% | 2 | Firestarter | $3,107,506 | 53.6% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $5,423,233 | +6.6% | 17.8% | 1 | The Natural | $5,423,233 | 100% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 4 | 4 | $5,113,643 | +28.2% | 16.8% | 3 | Police Academy | $2,808,194 | 54.9% | 9 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 6 | $3,531,769 | +16.4% | 11.6% | 1 | Romancing the Stone | $3,531,769 | 100% | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 6 | 9 | $1,279,264 | +5% | 4.2% | 1 | Footloose | $1,279,264 | 100% | 14 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,082,920 | -64.4% | 3.6% | 2 | Moscow on the Hudson | $1,082,920 | 100% | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $1,047,496 | -14.1% | 3.4% | 1 | Splash | $1,047,496 | 100% | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 9 | 7 | $1,000,733 | -35.7% | 3.3% | 1 | The Bounty | $1,000,733 | 100% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
