| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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|---|
| 1 | 3 | $23,025,826 | +18.3% | 22.7% | 3 | Coming to America | $13,232,466 | 57.5% | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 1 | $22,339,989 | -25% | 22% | 3 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | $13,613,746 | 60.9% | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 4 | $19,523,419 | +25.7% | 19.2% | 3 | Die Hard | $10,991,054 | 56.3% | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 4 | 2 | $16,995,030 | -21% | 16.7% | 3 | The Dead Pool | $8,602,048 | 50.6% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 7 | $11,796,640 | +147.6% | 11.6% | 3 | Midnight Run | $10,058,705 | 85.3% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 6 | 5 | $3,934,091 | -43.3% | 3.9% | 2 | Short Circuit 2 | $2,827,641 | 71.9% | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $3,691,042 | -24.7% | 3.6% | 1 | Bull Durham | $3,691,042 | 100% | 6 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $205,950 | -90% | 0.2% | 2 | A Fish Called Wanda | $205,950 | 100% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
