| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $5,626,780 | -16% | 27% | 3 | Stand by Me | $3,010,922 | 53.5% | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 3 | $4,183,445 | -4.3% | 20% | 2 | Top Gun | $3,004,108 | 71.8% | 18 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $3,541,665 | -23.3% | 17% | 2 | The Fly | $1,905,248 | 53.8% | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 4 | $2,492,810 | -23.3% | 11.9% | 3 | Nothing in Common | $1,570,832 | 63% | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 5 | 5 | $1,504,134 | -17.3% | 7.2% | 1 | Ruthless People | $1,504,134 | 100% | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 6 | 7 | $1,200,021 | -11.3% | 5.8% | 1 | Back to School | $1,200,021 | 100% | 14 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 8 | 6 | $1,027,404 | -35.8% | 4.9% | 1 | Extremities | $1,027,404 | 100% | 4 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 11 | 8 | $32,546 | -86.4% | 0.2% | 1 | Shanghai Surprise | $32,546 | 100% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
