| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | Police Academy | $8,450,293 | +2.4% | 1,587 | +217 | $5,324 | $48,798,588 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 3 | Romancing the Stone | $7,763,099 | -4.5% | 1,072 | +105 | $7,241 | $29,985,564 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 3 | 1 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter | $7,537,352 | -50% | 1,600 | +6 | $4,710 | $22,619,443 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 4 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | $6,251,581 | -3.7% | 1,175 | +315 | $5,320 | $29,051,955 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Splash | $5,275,771 | -7.1% | 1,186 | +134 | $4,448 | $49,491,842 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Moscow on the Hudson | $4,424,929 | -0.4% | 711 | +65 | $6,223 | $13,456,109 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 7 | Footloose | $3,418,425 | -4.5% | 1,045 | +47 | $3,271 | $61,509,941 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 12 | Iceman | $2,517,000 | -6.4% | 671 | +29 | $3,751 | $5,207,000 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 8 | Terms of Endearment | $2,460,483 | -30.5% | 850 | -68 | $2,894 | $101,208,766 | 23 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Swing Shift | $2,455,654 | -20.7% | 814 | +104 | $3,016 | $5,553,932 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | 9 | Where the Boys Are | $1,772,887 | -45.1% | 814 | -589 | $2,177 | $9,554,887 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 11 | Up the Creek | $1,734,092 | -42% | 729 | -477 | $2,378 | $8,836,373 | 3 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 13 | Hard to Hold | $1,445,000 | -45.1% | 700 | -313 | $2,064 | $8,169,000 | 3 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 14 | This Is Spinal Tap | $321,015 | +57.6% | 62 | +34 | $5,177 | $1,318,521 | 8 | Embassy Pictures | false | false |
| 15 | - | Champions | $92,216 | - | 39 | - | $2,364 | $92,216 | 1 | AVCO Embassy Pictures | true | false |
