Domestic Box Office For August 1984
| Rank | Release | Gross | Max Th | Opening | % of Total | Open Th | Open | Close | Distributor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tightrope | $48,143,579 | 1,535 | $9,156,545 | 19% | 1,535 | Aug 17 | - | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | Red Dawn | $38,376,497 | 1,822 | $8,230,381 | 21.4% | 1,822 | Aug 10 | - | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| 3 | The Woman in Red | $25,308,147 | 1,069 | $3,159,811 | 12.5% | 1,065 | Aug 17 | - | Orion Pictures |
| 4 | Dreamscape | $12,145,169 | 816 | $2,257,627 | 18.6% | 816 | Aug 17 | - | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 5 | Cloak and Dagger | $9,719,952 | 1,147 | $2,862,025 | 29.4% | 1,147 | Aug 10 | - | Universal Pictures |
| 6 | Bolero | $8,914,881 | 1,015 | $4,579,240 | 51.4% | 1,015 | Aug 31 | - | Cannon Film Distributors |
| 7 | Oxford Blues | $8,793,152 | 1,075 | $2,486,418 | 28.3% | 1,075 | Aug 24 | - | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) |
| 8 | The Philadelphia Experiment | $8,103,330 | 490 | $1,877,000 | 23.2% | 490 | Aug 3 | - | New World Pictures |
| 9 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $6,254,148 | 236 | $620,279 | 9.9% | 236 | Aug 10 | - | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 10 | Sheena | $5,778,353 | 1,496 | $2,950,114 | 51.1% | 1,496 | Aug 17 | - | Columbia Pictures |
| 11 | Grandview, U.S.A. | $4,743,119 | 1,069 | $2,194,293 | 46.3% | 1,069 | Aug 3 | - | Warner Bros. |
| 12 | C.H.U.D. | $4,654,423 | 310 | $1,762,922 | 37.9% | 310 | Aug 31 | - | New World Pictures |
| 13 | Joy of Sex | $4,463,841 | 804 | $1,913,001 | 42.9% | 804 | Aug 3 | - | Paramount Pictures |
| 14 | Flashpoint | $3,854,833 | 1,022 | $1,916,222 | 49.7% | 1,022 | Aug 31 | - | TriStar Pictures |
| 15 | Choose Me | $2,490,233 | - | - | - | - | Aug 29 | Jan 3 | Island Alive |
