| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $7,982,025 | +9.3% | 24.5% | 4 | No Small Affair | $2,791,438 | 35% | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 2 | 5 | $7,190,304 | +126.1% | 22% | 4 | Oh, God! You Devil | $7,139,841 | 99.3% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 3 | 2 | $6,894,476 | +0.7% | 21.1% | 2 | The Terminator | $4,764,277 | 69.1% | 3 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 6 | $4,251,359 | +41.2% | 13% | 2 | Places in the Heart | $2,542,499 | 59.8% | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 5 | 7 | $1,835,704 | -24.9% | 5.6% | 1 | Teachers | $1,835,704 | 100% | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 6 | 3 | $1,605,724 | -67.4% | 4.9% | 2 | All of Me | $1,605,724 | 100% | 8 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 7 | 4 | $1,320,862 | -67.2% | 4% | 3 | Firstborn | $1,320,862 | 100% | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $278,608 | +25.7% | 0.9% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $278,608 | 100% | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
