| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Rocky IV | $25,151,054 | +113.5% | 1,325 | - | $18,981 | $36,929,622 | 2 | United Artists | false | false |
| 2 | 12 | Santa Claus | $6,197,160 | +314.5% | 970 | - | $6,388 | $7,692,367 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | One Magic Christmas | $4,533,384 | +19.2% | 827 | +3 | $5,481 | $8,336,873 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 2 | King Solomon's Mines | $4,261,075 | -35.4% | 1,122 | - | $3,797 | $10,858,244 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Back to the Future | $2,465,529 | -6% | 1,133 | +8 | $2,176 | $183,919,476 | 23 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 4 | Jagged Edge | $2,394,271 | -19% | 897 | -24 | $2,669 | $34,796,472 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 6 | Once Bitten | $1,723,487 | -33.3% | 903 | -153 | $1,908 | $8,623,388 | 3 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | false | false |
| 8 | 8 | To Live and Die in L.A. | $1,311,830 | -34.6% | 682 | -102 | $1,923 | $14,248,975 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 9 | 13 | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | $951,835 | -32.6% | 1,090 | - | $873 | $4,567,074 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Target | $943,990 | -41.1% | 603 | -133 | $1,565 | $8,761,136 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | 16 | Death Wish 3 | $905,216 | -25.9% | 625 | -117 | $1,448 | $15,634,075 | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | false | false |
| 12 | 9 | Bad Medicine | $783,353 | -55.6% | 688 | -43 | $1,138 | $2,549,195 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 13 | 17 | White Nights | $705,690 | -7.7% | - | - | - | $1,470,607 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 11 | That Was Then... This Is Now | $692,184 | -54.8% | 651 | - | $1,063 | $7,660,982 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
