| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $5,743,420 | -11.2% | 23.2% | 4 | Body Double | $2,387,024 | 41.6% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 3 | $5,106,940 | +4.5% | 20.7% | 2 | The Terminator | $4,219,463 | 82.6% | 2 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $3,760,768 | -30.7% | 15.2% | 2 | Terror in the Aisles | $2,171,747 | 57.7% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 4 | $3,043,873 | -15.8% | 12.3% | 2 | Firstborn | $1,625,572 | 53.4% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $2,532,800 | -9.2% | 10.2% | 1 | Places in the Heart | $2,532,800 | 100% | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,470,611 | -20.2% | 10% | 3 | American Dreamer | $1,430,686 | 57.9% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 7 | 7 | $1,901,233 | +9.9% | 7.7% | 1 | Teachers | $1,901,233 | 100% | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 8 | $167,913 | +24.6% | 0.7% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $167,913 | 100% | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
