| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $6,466,730 | -1.9% | 23% | 5 | Body Double | $2,837,978 | 43.9% | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 6 | $5,428,566 | +109% | 19.3% | 2 | Terror in the Aisles | $4,009,866 | 73.9% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 3 | 9 | $4,887,435 | +421.8% | 17.4% | 2 | The Terminator | $4,020,663 | 82.3% | 1 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 5 | $3,615,799 | +17% | 12.8% | 2 | Thief of Hearts | $2,009,585 | 55.6% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 5 | 2 | $3,096,749 | -37.7% | 11% | 4 | American Dreamer | $1,580,990 | 51.1% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 4 | $2,788,330 | -11% | 9.9% | 1 | Places in the Heart | $2,788,330 | 100% | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 3 | $1,730,224 | -49.8% | 6.1% | 1 | Teachers | $1,730,224 | 100% | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 11 | $134,784 | -46.3% | 0.5% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $134,784 | 100% | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
