| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 8 | $25,846,611 | +1,223.6% | 47.9% | 2 | Beverly Hills Cop | $24,968,873 | 96.6% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 6 | $9,704,126 | +358.5% | 18% | 2 | 2010: The Year We Make Contact | $9,704,126 | 100% | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 3 | 5 | $9,412,212 | +281% | 17.4% | 3 | City Heat | $8,414,483 | 89.4% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 1 | $2,914,266 | -43.6% | 5.4% | 2 | The Terminator | $2,002,925 | 68.7% | 7 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 5 | 3 | $1,749,132 | -51.7% | 3.2% | 1 | Missing in Action | $1,749,132 | 100% | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - |
| 6 | 2 | $1,610,806 | -59.8% | 3% | 2 | Supergirl | $931,838 | 57.8% | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 7 | 4 | $1,399,437 | -50.7% | 2.6% | 1 | Night of the Comet | $1,399,437 | 100% | 4 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - |
| 8 | 9 | $709,170 | -53.5% | 1.3% | 1 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | $709,170 | 100% | 5 | New Line Cinema | - |
| 9 | 7 | $462,506 | -76.5% | 0.9% | 1 | Ghostbusters | $462,506 | 100% | 27 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 10 | 10 | $176,933 | -53.4% | 0.3% | 1 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $176,933 | 100% | 18 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
