| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 1 | $7,245,925 | -11.5% | 30.7% | 4 | Tightrope | $3,329,118 | 45.9% | 5 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $5,824,154 | -4.9% | 24.7% | 3 | Ghostbusters | $3,457,626 | 59.4% | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 6 | $2,931,743 | +63.3% | 12.4% | 3 | Ninja III: The Domination | $1,727,546 | 58.9% | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 3 | $2,864,816 | -12.3% | 12.2% | 3 | Revenge of the Nerds | $1,984,597 | 69.3% | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 5 | $2,132,776 | -12.6% | 9% | 1 | The Woman in Red | $2,132,776 | 100% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $1,503,784 | -47.4% | 6.4% | 2 | Red Dawn | $1,503,784 | 100% | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 8 | $1,065,032 | -6.3% | 4.5% | 1 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $1,065,032 | 100% | 17 | Paramount Pictures | - |
