| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Back to the Future | $5,000,845 | $3,924,150 | 78.5% | $1,076,695 | 21.5% | 1,448 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Creator | $2,723,147 | $2,019,728 | 74.2% | $703,419 | 25.8% | 820 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Teen Wolf | $2,559,000 | $1,897,038 | 74.1% | $661,962 | 25.9% | 1,206 | 5 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 4 | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | $2,073,353 | $1,653,437 | 79.8% | $419,916 | 20.2% | 882 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Compromising Positions | $1,482,464 | $1,143,721 | 77.2% | $338,743 | 22.8% | 571 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Cocoon | $1,401,272 | $1,052,241 | 75.1% | $349,031 | 24.9% | 830 | 14 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | St. Elmo's Fire | $1,147,913 | $780,830 | 68% | $367,083 | 32% | 697 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | $1,134,190 | $841,114 | 74.2% | $293,076 | 25.8% | 820 | 19 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Silverado | $1,023,603 | $741,840 | 72.5% | $281,763 | 27.5% | 682 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Ghostbusters 1985 Re-release | $878,232 | $707,515 | 80.6% | $170,717 | 19.4% | 650 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | American Ninja | $777,040 | $777,040 | 100% | $0 | - | 493 | 4 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 12 | Plenty | $623,664 | $436,266 | 70% | $187,398 | 30% | 24 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Kiss of the Spider Woman | - | $762,387 | - | - | - | 108 | 9 | Island Alive | - | false |
| - | Volunteers | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wetherby | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Year of the Dragon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
