| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 2 | 2 | $4,214,111 | -24.7% | 14.6% | 3 | Oh, God! You Devil | $4,033,986 | 95.7% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 3 | $4,206,494 | -11.2% | 14.6% | 2 | The Terminator | $2,848,258 | 67.7% | 4 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 1 | $3,203,481 | -49.1% | 11.1% | 4 | No Small Affair | $1,294,800 | 40.4% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $2,511,816 | -31.4% | 8.7% | 2 | Places in the Heart | $1,729,216 | 68.8% | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $2,291,803 | +58.5% | 8% | 3 | Just the Way You Are | $2,291,803 | 100% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,634,000 | +28.6% | 5.7% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,634,000 | 100% | 2 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 9 | 6 | $807,300 | -38.9% | 2.8% | 1 | All of Me | $807,300 | 100% | 9 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 10 | 10 | $230,832 | +9.7% | 0.8% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $230,832 | 100% | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
