List of 1987 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1987.[1]

Number-one films

#	Weekend end date	Film	Box office	Notes	Ref
1	January 4, 1987	The Golden Child	$6,644,850		[2]
2	January 11, 1987	The Golden Child	$4,526,427		[3]
3	January 18, 1987	Critical Condition	$5,715,701		[4]
4	January 25, 1987	Critical Condition	$3,335,808		[5]
5	February 1, 1987	Platoon	$8,352,394	Platoon reached No. 1 on its seventh weekend after expanding from 214 to 590 theaters.	[6]
6	February 8, 1987		$8,179,149		[7]
7	February 16, 1987^{4-day weekend}		$12,875,690	First film to gross more than $10 million on a weekend in February. Orion Pictures' biggest weekend. Biggest 9th weekend gross of all-time.	[8][9]
8	February 22, 1987		$8,216,207		[10]
9	March 1, 1987	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors	$8,880,555	Record opening for an independent film.	[11][12]
10	March 8, 1987	Lethal Weapon	$6,829,949		[13]
11	March 15, 1987		$7,104,415		[14]
12	March 22, 1987		$6,289,750		[15]
13	March 29, 1987	Blind Date	$7,531,273		[16]
14	April 5, 1987	Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol	$8,482,487		[17]
15	April 12, 1987	The Secret of My Success	$7,766,452		[18]
16	April 19, 1987		$7,412,160		[19]
17	April 26, 1987		$5,585,900		[20]
18	May 3, 1987		$4,609,670		[21]
19	May 10, 1987		$3,836,710		[22]
20	May 17, 1987	Ishtar	$4,331,817		[23]
21	May 25, 1987^{4-day weekend}	Beverly Hills Cop II	$33,014,153	Beverly Hills Cop II had the highest weekend debut of 1987 and broke Rambo: First Blood Part II's record ($25.1 million) for highest weekend debut for a R-rated film.	[24]
22	May 31, 1987		$17,126,642		[25]
23	June 7, 1987		$12,424,035		[26]
24	June 14, 1987	Predator	$12,031,638		[27]
25	June 21, 1987	The Witches of Eastwick	$8,251,230	The Witches of Eastwick reached No. 1 in its second weekend of release.	[28]
26	June 28, 1987	Dragnet	$10,542,669		[29]
27	July 5, 1987	Dragnet	$7,042,650		[30]
28	July 12, 1987	Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise	$7,900,879		[31]
29	July 19, 1987	RoboCop	$8,008,721		[32]
30	July 26, 1987	RoboCop	$6,332,716		[33]
31	August 2, 1987	The Living Daylights	$11,051,284	The Living Daylights set a record 3-day opening for a James Bond film, beating that set in 1983 by Octopussy ($8.9 million) and the $10.7 million Friday to Sunday gross of A View to a Kill in 1985.	[34][35]
32	August 9, 1987	The Living Daylights	$7,706,230		[36]
33	August 16, 1987	Stakeout	$5,574,782	Stakeout reached number 1 in its second weekend of release.	[37]
34	August 23, 1987		$5,559,712		[38]
35	August 30, 1987		$4,729,337		[39]
36	September 7, 1987^{4-day weekend}		$7,071,745		[40]
37	September 14, 1987		$4,202,518		[41]
38	September 21, 1987	Fatal Attraction	$7,602,740		[42]
39	September 28, 1987		$7,707,763		[43]
40	October 4, 1987		$9,347,602		[44]
41	October 12, 1987^{4-day weekend}		$10,554,336		[45]
42	October 18, 1987		$7,688,730		[46]
43	October 25, 1987		$8,046,843		[47]
44	November 1, 1987		$6,407,677		[48]
45	November 8, 1987		$7,089,680		[49]
46	November 15, 1987	The Running Man	$8,117,465		[50]
47	November 22, 1987	The Running Man	$5,671,255		[51]
48	November 29, 1987	Three Men and a Baby	$10,384,392	Buena Vista's biggest opening weekend of all-time.	[52]
49	December 6, 1987	Three Men and a Baby	$8,425,834		[53]
50	December 13, 1987	Throw Momma from the Train	$7,318,878		[54]
51	December 20, 1987	Eddie Murphy Raw	$9,077,324		[55]
52	December 27, 1987	Three Men and a Baby	$10,305,227	Three Men and a Baby reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release.	[56]

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

Highest-grossing films of 1987 by Calendar Gross[57]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Beverly Hills Cop II	Paramount Pictures	Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton, Brigitte Nielsen, Allen Garfield, Dean Stockwell and Paul Reiser	Tony Scott	$153,665,036
2.	Platoon	Orion Pictures	Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen	Oliver Stone	$136,772,865
3.	Fatal Attraction	Paramount Pictures	Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer	Adrian Lyne	$125,944,573
4.	The Untouchables	Paramount Pictures	Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy García, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery	Brian De Palma	$76,270,454
5.	Three Men and a Baby	Walt Disney Studios	Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson	Leonard Nimoy	$70,801,611
6.	The Secret of My Success	Universal Pictures	Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan and Margaret Whitton	Herbert Ross	$66,995,879
7.	Stakeout	Walt Disney Studios	Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Aidan Quinn and Madeleine Stowe	John Badham	$65,673,233
8.	Lethal Weapon	Warner Bros. Pictures	Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Gary Busey	Richard Donner	$65,207,127
9.	The Witches of Eastwick	Warner Bros. Pictures	Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer and Veronica Cartwright	George Miller	$63,766,510
10.	Predator	20th Century Fox	Arnold Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers	John McTiernan	$59,735,548

In-Year Release

Highest-grossing films of 1987 by In-year release[58]
Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Three Men and a Baby	Disney	$167,780,960
2.	Fatal Attraction	Paramount	$156,645,693
3.	Beverly Hills Cop II	Paramount	$153,665,036
4.	Good Morning, Vietnam	Disney	$123,922,370
5.	Moonstruck	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	$80,640,528
6.	The Untouchables	Paramount	$76,270,454
7.	The Secret of My Success	Universal	$66,995,879
8.	Stakeout	Disney	$65,673,233
9.	Lethal Weapon	Warner Bros.	$65,207,127
10.	The Witches of Eastwick	Warner Bros.	$63,766,510

Highest-grossing films by MPAA rating of 1987
G	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1987 Re-issue)
PG	Three Men and a Baby
PG-13	The Secret of My Success
R	Fatal Attraction

List of 1987 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

References

See also