| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 1 | $19,668,172 | +53.3% | 38.5% | 3 | Police Academy | $10,744,196 | 54.6% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 2 | $8,237,861 | -16.8% | 16.1% | 3 | Footloose | $5,326,837 | 64.7% | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $7,199,013 | -16.9% | 14.1% | 1 | Splash | $7,199,013 | 100% | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 8 | $6,975,799 | +258.2% | 13.6% | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $6,975,799 | 100% | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 4 | $3,075,970 | -14.9% | 6% | 2 | The Ice Pirates | $1,910,784 | 62.1% | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 6 | $2,080,952 | -29.2% | 4.1% | 3 | Against All Odds | $2,080,952 | 100% | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,889,000 | -46.2% | 3.7% | 1 | Tank | $1,889,000 | 100% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $1,779,720 | -11.5% | 3.5% | 1 | Children of the Corn | $1,779,720 | 100% | 4 | New World Pictures | - |
| 9 | 10 | $240,467 | +67.7% | 0.5% | 1 | This Is Spinal Tap | $240,467 | 100% | 5 | Embassy Pictures | - |
