| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | - | Tightrope | $7,130,891 | - | 1,535 | - | $4,645 | $30,778,273 | - | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | - | Ghostbusters | $6,359,693 | - | 1,368 | - | $4,648 | $188,058,969 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | - | Bolero | $4,579,240 | - | 1,015 | - | $4,511 | $4,579,240 | - | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | - | The Karate Kid | $4,155,645 | - | 1,040 | - | $3,995 | $69,959,648 | - | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | - | Purple Rain | $4,068,212 | - | 949 | - | $4,286 | $45,660,272 | - | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | - | Revenge of the Nerds | $3,684,329 | - | 974 | - | $3,782 | $28,764,667 | - | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | - | The Woman in Red | $3,577,644 | - | 944 | - | $3,789 | $13,683,901 | - | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | - | Red Dawn | $3,257,979 | - | 1,095 | - | $2,975 | $29,673,615 | - | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | - | Gremlins | $3,001,224 | - | 1,071 | - | $2,802 | $136,678,227 | - | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | - | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $2,175,460 | - | 737 | - | $2,951 | $167,334,648 | - | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | - | Oxford Blues | $2,087,808 | - | 856 | - | $2,439 | $5,845,675 | - | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | - | Flashpoint | $1,916,222 | - | 1,022 | - | $1,874 | $1,916,222 | - | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | - | C.H.U.D. | $1,762,922 | - | 310 | - | $5,686 | $1,762,922 | - | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | - | Dreamscape | $1,360,881 | - | 623 | - | $2,184 | $8,887,086 | - | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | - | The Philadelphia Experiment | $1,049,716 | - | 432 | - | $2,429 | $8,103,330 | - | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | - | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $194,999 | - | 53 | - | $3,679 | $2,140,397 | - | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
