| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $16,106,880 | -28.9% | 32.3% | 2 | Pet Sematary | $10,852,419 | 67.4% | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 2 | 2 | $14,856,733 | +134.5% | 29.8% | 4 | K-9 | $9,825,360 | 66.1% | 1 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 4 | 3 | $3,434,427 | -25.8% | 6.9% | 2 | Say Anything | $2,967,621 | 86.4% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 5 | 6 | $3,282,172 | +5% | 6.6% | 2 | Rain Man | $2,318,185 | 70.6% | 20 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - |
| 7 | 5 | $1,997,894 | -36.6% | 4% | 2 | She's Out of Control | $1,589,576 | 79.6% | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 8 | 4 | $1,820,292 | -56% | 3.7% | 3 | See You in the Morning | $1,299,517 | 71.4% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 9 | 7 | $1,514,718 | -43.4% | 3% | 1 | Red Scorpion | $1,514,718 | 100% | 2 | - | - |
| 11 | 9 | $235,055 | -86.9% | 0.5% | 2 | Mississippi Burning | $235,055 | 100% | 21 | Orion Pictures | - |
| 12 | 10 | $121,752 | -39.2% | 0.2% | 1 | Heathers | $121,752 | 100% | 5 | New World Pictures | - |
