| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 1 | 3 | $24,941,847 | +43.9% | 31.4% | 4 | Purple Rain | $12,600,859 | 50.5% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 2 | 1 | $17,807,392 | -11.4% | 22.4% | 2 | Ghostbusters | $11,534,948 | 64.8% | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 4 | 2 | $8,738,555 | -50.6% | 11% | 3 | Best Defense | $4,577,231 | 52.4% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $6,885,892 | +8.3% | 8.7% | 2 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | $3,478,796 | 50.5% | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 6 | 5 | $5,505,294 | -21.7% | 6.9% | 2 | Bachelor Party | $2,915,095 | 53% | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 7 | 4 | $4,227,816 | -45.5% | 5.3% | 2 | The Last Starfighter | $3,027,085 | 71.6% | 3 | Universal Pictures | - |
