| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | $21,253,468 | -22% | 28.3% | 3 | Back to the Future | $13,434,695 | 63.2% | 7 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $20,500,806 | -4.9% | 27.3% | 5 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | $8,481,845 | 41.4% | 1 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 3 | $8,913,691 | -39.8% | 11.9% | 2 | Fright Night | $6,287,007 | 70.5% | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 5 | 6 | $6,649,202 | +114.7% | 8.8% | 2 | Real Genius | $4,493,585 | 67.6% | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $5,405,482 | +3% | 7.2% | 2 | The Black Cauldron | $2,946,514 | 54.5% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 7 | 5 | $3,369,892 | -19.3% | 4.5% | 1 | Cocoon | $3,369,892 | 100% | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
