| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 6 | $7,578,658 | +201.7% | 21.8% | 2 | Supergirl | $5,738,249 | 75.7% | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 2 | 3 | $5,586,864 | +32.8% | 16.1% | 2 | The Terminator | $3,934,127 | 70.4% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 1 | $4,928,898 | -19.2% | 14.2% | 1 | Missing in Action | $4,928,898 | 100% | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 2 | $3,552,004 | -15.7% | 10.2% | 2 | Oh, God! You Devil | $3,458,218 | 97.4% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 4 | $3,234,978 | -9.7% | 9.3% | 1 | Night of the Comet | $3,234,978 | 100% | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,452,222 | -23.5% | 7.1% | 3 | A Soldier's Story | $1,460,697 | 59.6% | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,275,643 | -0.7% | 6.6% | 2 | Just the Way You Are | $2,155,861 | 94.7% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,477,970 | -9.5% | 4.3% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,477,970 | 100% | 3 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 10 | 9 | $925,196 | +14.6% | 2.7% | 1 | All of Me | $925,196 | 100% | 10 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 11 | 10 | $407,126 | +76.4% | 1.2% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $407,126 | 100% | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
