| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 2 | 1 | $5,434,907 | -25% | 19% | 4 | Purple Rain | $2,157,231 | 39.7% | 9 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 2 | $4,888,312 | -16.1% | 17.1% | 3 | Ghostbusters | $2,850,809 | 58.3% | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $2,865,557 | +90.6% | 10% | 2 | Until September | $1,983,321 | 69.2% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,013,560 | -5.6% | 7% | 2 | The Woman in Red | $1,508,284 | 74.9% | 6 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 4 | $1,498,737 | -47.7% | 5.2% | 3 | Revenge of the Nerds | $1,426,017 | 95.1% | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 8 | 3 | $895,524 | -69.5% | 3.1% | 2 | Ninja III: The Domination | $895,524 | 100% | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 9 | 7 | $441,466 | -58.5% | 1.5% | 1 | The River Rat | $441,466 | 100% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
