| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
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| 2 | 3 | $7,256,251 | +5.2% | 16.5% | 2 | The Terminator | $5,208,881 | 71.8% | 4 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $5,662,745 | -21.2% | 12.8% | 3 | Oh, God! You Devil | $5,512,815 | 97.4% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 1 | $4,527,936 | -43.3% | 10.3% | 4 | No Small Affair | $1,748,775 | 38.6% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $4,512,659 | +6.1% | 10.2% | 3 | Supergirl | $2,010,143 | 44.5% | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $3,353,509 | +82.7% | 7.6% | 4 | Just the Way You Are | $3,330,985 | 99.3% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 8 | 8 | $1,819,000 | +43.1% | 4.1% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,819,000 | 100% | 2 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 9 | 6 | $1,188,044 | -26% | 2.7% | 1 | All of Me | $1,188,044 | 100% | 9 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 10 | 7 | $814,042 | -38.4% | 1.8% | 2 | Falling in Love | $814,042 | 100% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 11 | 9 | $379,966 | +36.4% | 0.9% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $379,966 | 100% | 15 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
