| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Purple Rain | $12,600,859 | $7,766,201 | 61.6% | $4,834,658 | 38.4% | 917 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | $11,534,948 | $7,433,758 | 64.4% | $4,101,190 | 35.6% | 1,458 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Jungle Book 1984 Re-release | $8,821,782 | $5,291,670 | 60% | $3,530,112 | 40% | 1,430 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Gremlins | $7,220,832 | $4,596,286 | 63.6% | $2,624,546 | 36.4% | 1,411 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | $6,272,444 | $3,891,130 | 62% | $2,381,314 | 38% | 1,069 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The NeverEnding Story | $5,120,156 | $3,300,996 | 64.5% | $1,819,160 | 35.5% | 950 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Best Defense | $4,577,231 | $3,175,612 | 69.4% | $1,401,619 | 30.6% | 1,425 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $4,161,324 | $2,591,995 | 62.3% | $1,569,329 | 37.7% | 1,052 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | $3,478,796 | $2,291,250 | 65.9% | $1,187,546 | 34.1% | 975 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Meatballs Part II | $3,407,096 | $2,515,268 | 73.8% | $891,828 | 26.2% | 1,252 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Last Starfighter | $3,027,085 | $2,046,500 | 67.6% | $980,585 | 32.4% | 817 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Bachelor Party | $2,915,095 | $1,899,689 | 65.2% | $1,015,406 | 34.8% | 775 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Revenge of the Nerds | $2,590,199 | $1,674,196 | 64.6% | $916,003 | 35.4% | 423 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Cheech & Chong's: The Corsican Brothers | $2,446,158 | $1,667,881 | 68.2% | $778,277 | 31.8% | 868 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Conan the Destroyer | $1,200,731 | $793,213 | 66.1% | $407,518 | 33.9% | 475 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Electric Dreams | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Cannonball Run II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tex | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
