| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $15,720,125 | +18.9% | 26.4% | 3 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $8,604,265 | 54.7% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $12,122,558 | +40.9% | 20.3% | 3 | Three Men and a Baby | $10,305,227 | 85% | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 5 | $9,857,539 | +201.9% | 16.5% | 2 | Broadcast News | $5,449,920 | 55.3% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 3 | $6,760,890 | +17.2% | 11.3% | 2 | Throw Momma from the Train | $6,760,890 | 100% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $4,917,925 | +103.5% | 8.2% | 2 | Empire of the Sun | $2,914,509 | 59.3% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 6 | 4 | $4,084,570 | +22.8% | 6.9% | 1 | *batteries not included | $4,084,570 | 100% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 8 | $3,080,681 | +53.5% | 5.2% | 2 | Overboard | $2,908,314 | 94.4% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,049,291 | -1.1% | 3.4% | 2 | Leonard Part 6 | $1,050,249 | 51.2% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 9 | 9 | $1,018,070 | +14.2% | 1.7% | 2 | The Running Man | $969,930 | 95.3% | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - |
