| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tightrope | $9,936,957 | -27.5% | 1,535 | - | $6,473 | $23,647,382 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 2 | Ghostbusters | $7,000,313 | -18.7% | 1,391 | -9 | $5,032 | $181,699,276 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 4 | Purple Rain | $4,927,144 | -21.7% | 915 | +62 | $5,384 | $41,592,060 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 4 | 3 | Red Dawn | $4,891,415 | -42.6% | 1,396 | -396 | $3,503 | $26,415,636 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Revenge of the Nerds | $4,474,395 | -22.8% | 989 | +18 | $4,524 | $25,080,338 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 6 | 7 | The Karate Kid | $4,317,561 | -18.7% | 1,090 | +60 | $3,961 | $65,804,003 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 6 | The Woman in Red | $4,316,101 | -25.5% | 1,069 | +4 | $4,037 | $10,106,257 | 2 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | - | Oxford Blues | $3,757,867 | - | 1,075 | - | $3,495 | $3,757,867 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | true | false |
| 9 | 8 | Dreamscape | $3,134,950 | -28.6% | 814 | -2 | $3,851 | $7,526,205 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Gremlins | $2,900,109 | -16.6% | 982 | -31 | $2,953 | $133,677,003 | 12 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | 11 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $2,288,216 | -13.1% | 785 | +55 | $2,914 | $165,159,188 | 15 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 9 | Sheena | $1,618,493 | -61.1% | 1,388 | -108 | $1,166 | $5,778,353 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $313,833 | -52.2% | 80 | -103 | $3,922 | $1,945,398 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
