| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $4,080,164 | -27% | 18.5% | 2 | The Terminator | $2,975,716 | 72.9% | 6 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $3,642,416 | -51.9% | 16.5% | 2 | Supergirl | $2,551,454 | 70% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $3,021,220 | -38.7% | 13.7% | 1 | Missing in Action | $3,021,220 | 100% | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 8 | $2,593,993 | +14% | 11.8% | 2 | Just the Way You Are | $1,890,554 | 72.9% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 5 | 4 | $2,092,818 | -41.1% | 9.5% | 2 | Oh, God! You Devil | $2,011,012 | 96.1% | 4 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $1,931,400 | -40.3% | 8.8% | 1 | Night of the Comet | $1,931,400 | 100% | 3 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 7 | 6 | $1,623,025 | -33.8% | 7.4% | 2 | A Soldier's Story | $943,471 | 58.1% | 12 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,606,016 | -30% | 7.3% | 1 | Falling in Love | $1,606,016 | 100% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,130,330 | -23.5% | 5.1% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,130,330 | 100% | 4 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 10 | 11 | $309,715 | -23.9% | 1.4% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $309,715 | 100% | 17 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
