Domestic 1988 Week 1
January 1-7, 1988
| Rank | Release | Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Men and a Baby | $15,804,968 | $13,123,622 | 83% | $2,681,346 | 17% | 1,804 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 2 | Throw Momma from the Train | $8,310,815 | $6,903,278 | 83.1% | $1,407,537 | 16.9% | 1,621 | 4 | Orion Pictures |
| 3 | Eddie Murphy: Raw | $8,264,324 | $6,437,234 | 77.9% | $1,827,090 | 22.1% | 1,494 | 3 | Paramount Pictures |
| 4 | Broadcast News | $7,753,868 | $5,906,721 | 76.2% | $1,847,147 | 23.8% | 681 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 5 | Wall Street | $5,812,482 | $4,454,390 | 76.6% | $1,358,092 | 23.4% | 989 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 6 | *batteries not included | $5,625,209 | $4,839,180 | 86% | $786,029 | 14% | 1,367 | 3 | Universal Pictures |
| 7 | Planes, Trains & Automobiles | $5,074,832 | $4,024,857 | 79.3% | $1,049,975 | 20.7% | 1,684 | 7 | Paramount Pictures |
| 8 | Overboard | $4,818,403 | $3,922,281 | 81.4% | $896,122 | 18.6% | 1,127 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| 9 | Fatal Attraction | $4,448,173 | $3,414,417 | 76.8% | $1,033,756 | 23.2% | 1,288 | 16 | Paramount Pictures |
| 10 | Empire of the Sun | $3,957,421 | $3,183,207 | 80.4% | $774,214 | 19.6% | 673 | 4 | Warner Bros. |
| 11 | Nuts | $2,785,324 | $2,127,407 | 76.4% | $657,917 | 23.6% | 1,112 | 7 | Warner Bros. |
| 12 | Cinderella 1987 Re-release | $2,521,519 | $2,308,384 | 91.6% | $213,135 | 8.4% | 1,359 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 13 | The Last Emperor | $1,540,110 | $1,124,142 | 73% | $415,968 | 27% | 94 | 7 | Columbia Pictures |
| 14 | The Running Man | $1,397,639 | $1,156,639 | 82.8% | $241,000 | 17.2% | 869 | 8 | TriStar Pictures |
| 15 | Leonard Part 6 | $723,595 | $723,595 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,019 | 3 | Columbia Pictures |
| 16 | Good Morning, Vietnam | $352,605 | $221,145 | 62.7% | $131,460 | 37.3% | 4 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 17 | Moonstruck | $339,839 | $217,348 | 64% | $122,491 | 36% | 7 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| 18 | Ironweed | $77,285 | $56,570 | 73.2% | $20,715 | 26.8% | 2 | 3 | TriStar Pictures |
| - | Dirty Dancing | - | $1,277,912 | - | - | - | 855 | 20 | Vestron Pictures |
| - | I've Heard the Mermaids Singing | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | 17 | Miramax |
