| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 6 | $8,621,630 | +91.1% | 20.8% | 2 | Supergirl | $6,431,731 | 74.6% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $6,904,351 | -4.8% | 16.6% | 2 | The Terminator | $4,851,910 | 70.3% | 5 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 3 | 1 | $5,978,963 | -35.1% | 14.4% | 1 | Missing in Action | $5,978,963 | 100% | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 4 | 3 | $4,144,499 | -26.8% | 10% | 3 | Oh, God! You Devil | $4,001,446 | 96.5% | 3 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 5 | 4 | $3,945,095 | -26.2% | 9.5% | 1 | Night of the Comet | $3,945,095 | 100% | 2 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,979,443 | -34.2% | 7.2% | 3 | A Soldier's Story | $1,825,265 | 61.3% | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 7 | 10 | $2,882,369 | +254.1% | 7% | 1 | Falling in Love | $2,882,369 | 100% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $2,660,949 | -20.7% | 6.4% | 2 | Just the Way You Are | $2,528,155 | 95% | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 9 | 8 | $1,895,670 | +4.2% | 4.6% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $1,895,670 | 100% | 3 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 10 | 9 | $957,481 | -19.4% | 2.3% | 1 | All of Me | $957,481 | 100% | 10 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 11 | 11 | $499,663 | +31.5% | 1.2% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $499,663 | 100% | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
