| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 1 | $8,882,545 | +4.4% | 16.9% | 2 | Ruthless People | $5,434,671 | 61.2% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $8,298,133 | +3.8% | 15.8% | 2 | Top Gun | $4,730,530 | 57% | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 4 | $6,667,787 | -4.4% | 12.7% | 1 | The Karate Kid Part II | $6,667,787 | 100% | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 4 | 3 | $6,545,220 | -13.8% | 12.5% | 2 | Legal Eagles | $3,931,560 | 60.1% | 4 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 5 | 8 | $5,705,211 | +81.1% | 10.9% | 2 | Club Paradise | $4,152,296 | 72.8% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 5 | $5,265,743 | +3.7% | 10% | 1 | Back to School | $5,265,743 | 100% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $4,898,794 | -1.8% | 9.3% | 2 | About Last Night | $3,496,010 | 71.4% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $4,091,748 | -2.4% | 7.8% | 1 | Running Scared | $4,091,748 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 9 | 9 | $2,060,881 | -24.3% | 3.9% | 1 | Big Trouble in Little China | $2,060,881 | 100% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
