| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $12,110,223 | -14.3% | 17.9% | 4 | Top Gun | $5,672,797 | 46.8% | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 6 | $10,289,914 | +52.9% | 15.2% | 3 | The Karate Kid Part II | $6,033,107 | 58.6% | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 3 | 3 | $9,744,640 | -6.2% | 14.4% | 2 | Flight of the Navigator | $5,020,293 | 51.5% | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 4 | 2 | $9,165,500 | -18.7% | 13.6% | 1 | Aliens | $9,165,500 | 100% | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 5 | $6,919,508 | -23.6% | 10.2% | 2 | Nothing in Common | $4,072,180 | 58.9% | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 6 | 4 | $5,908,754 | -39.4% | 8.7% | 2 | Howard the Duck | $4,325,970 | 73.2% | 2 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 8 | 7 | $3,312,488 | -44.6% | 4.9% | 2 | Back to School | $3,312,488 | 100% | 9 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 9 | 8 | $2,817,118 | +31.8% | 4.2% | 2 | The Transformers: The Movie | $2,817,118 | 100% | 1 | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | - |
| 10 | 9 | $1,702,589 | -14.6% | 2.5% | 1 | Running Scared | $1,702,589 | 100% | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
