| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 2 | $15,273,516 | +20.2% | 23.3% | 3 | Coming to America | $8,886,442 | 58.2% | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $14,235,585 | -17.8% | 21.7% | 3 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $8,919,732 | 62.7% | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 4 | $12,611,407 | +47.5% | 19.2% | 3 | Die Hard | $7,105,514 | 56.3% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 3 | $11,632,727 | -2.8% | 17.7% | 3 | The Dead Pool | $6,015,347 | 51.7% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 6 | $6,588,975 | +87.7% | 10% | 3 | Midnight Run | $5,506,290 | 83.6% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,731,091 | -42.6% | 4.2% | 2 | Short Circuit 2 | $1,942,641 | 71.1% | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 7 | $2,416,510 | -27.1% | 3.7% | 1 | Bull Durham | $2,416,510 | 100% | 6 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $115,076 | -90.5% | 0.2% | 2 | A Fish Called Wanda | $115,076 | 100% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
