| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Lethal Weapon 2 | $32,023,994 | $20,388,800 | 63.7% | $11,635,194 | 36.3% | 1,803 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Batman | $30,109,941 | $19,248,329 | 63.9% | $10,861,612 | 36.1% | 2,201 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | $16,208,123 | $9,433,358 | 58.2% | $6,774,765 | 41.8% | 1,443 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Weekend at Bernie's | $9,195,957 | $4,506,086 | 49% | $4,689,871 | 51% | 1,134 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Ghostbusters II | $8,580,894 | $5,265,962 | 61.4% | $3,314,932 | 38.6% | 2,315 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | $8,084,748 | $5,205,338 | 64.4% | $2,879,410 | 35.6% | 1,917 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Dead Poets Society | $8,033,103 | $5,186,264 | 64.6% | $2,846,839 | 35.4% | 1,109 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Karate Kid Part III | $7,456,674 | $4,905,961 | 65.8% | $2,550,713 | 34.2% | 1,560 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Do the Right Thing | $4,498,141 | $2,916,960 | 64.8% | $1,581,181 | 35.2% | 361 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Great Balls of Fire! | $3,311,878 | $2,166,195 | 65.4% | $1,145,683 | 34.6% | 1,417 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | $2,031,703 | $1,342,980 | 66.1% | $688,723 | 33.9% | 1,005 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Field of Dreams | $1,985,999 | $1,304,875 | 65.7% | $681,124 | 34.3% | 803 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Music Teacher | $28,960 | $18,486 | 63.8% | $10,474 | 36.2% | 1 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Little Vera | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 13 | International Film Exchange (IFEX) | - | false |
| - | Road House | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | See No Evil, Hear No Evil | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Vampire's Kiss | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Hemdale | - | false |
