| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | - | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $15,082,091 | - | 1,594 | - | $9,461 | $15,082,091 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | true | false |
| 2 | 1 | Police Academy | $8,255,162 | -13% | 1,370 | +12 | $6,025 | $40,348,295 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $8,128,550 | +14.2% | 967 | +131 | $8,405 | $22,222,465 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 4 | 2 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $6,490,403 | -12.1% | 860 | +86 | $7,546 | $22,800,374 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 4 | Splash | $5,679,072 | +4% | 1,052 | -16 | $5,398 | $44,216,071 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 5 | Moscow on the Hudson | $4,442,811 | -3.2% | 646 | +28 | $6,877 | $9,031,180 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 9 | Footloose | $3,581,373 | -6.3% | 998 | -274 | $3,588 | $58,091,516 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 10 | Terms of Endearment | $3,538,714 | +98.5% | 918 | +409 | $3,854 | $98,748,283 | 22 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 6 | Where the Boys Are | $3,231,260 | -29% | 1,403 | -11 | $2,303 | $7,782,000 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | - | Swing Shift | $3,098,278 | - | 710 | - | $4,363 | $3,098,278 | 1 | Warner Bros. | true | false |
| 11 | 7 | Up the Creek | $2,991,946 | -27.2% | 1,206 | -140 | $2,480 | $7,102,281 | 2 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | - | Iceman | $2,690,000 | - | 642 | - | $4,190 | $2,690,000 | 1 | Universal Pictures | true | false |
| 13 | 8 | Hard to Hold | $2,632,000 | -35.7% | 1,013 | -4 | $2,598 | $6,724,000 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 13 | This Is Spinal Tap | $203,679 | -2.8% | 28 | -3 | $7,274 | $997,506 | 7 | Embassy Pictures | false | false |
