| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Red Dawn | $13,006,650 | $8,230,381 | 63.3% | $4,776,269 | 36.7% | 1,822 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | $9,277,657 | $5,783,164 | 62.3% | $3,494,493 | 37.7% | 1,423 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Purple Rain | $7,639,417 | $4,802,664 | 62.9% | $2,836,753 | 37.1% | 991 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Revenge of the Nerds | $7,030,307 | $4,391,174 | 62.5% | $2,639,133 | 37.5% | 958 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | $5,317,883 | $3,180,797 | 59.8% | $2,137,086 | 40.2% | 1,111 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Gremlins | $5,010,257 | $3,151,397 | 62.9% | $1,858,860 | 37.1% | 1,322 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Cloak and Dagger | $4,216,945 | $2,862,025 | 67.9% | $1,354,920 | 32.1% | 1,147 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Jungle Book 1984 Re-release | $3,655,337 | $2,141,714 | 58.6% | $1,513,623 | 41.4% | 1,109 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $3,358,992 | $2,110,782 | 62.8% | $1,248,210 | 37.2% | 946 | 13 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The NeverEnding Story | $2,137,072 | $1,330,090 | 62.2% | $806,982 | 37.8% | 719 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Bachelor Party | $1,875,223 | $1,232,231 | 65.7% | $642,992 | 34.3% | 738 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Muppets Take Manhattan | $1,848,212 | $1,228,453 | 66.5% | $619,759 | 33.5% | 783 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Last Starfighter | $1,625,171 | $1,074,450 | 66.1% | $550,721 | 33.9% | 570 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Philadelphia Experiment | $1,405,825 | $1,085,367 | 77.2% | $320,458 | 22.8% | 405 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Grandview, U.S.A. | $1,248,817 | $1,248,817 | 100% | $0 | - | 914 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $974,726 | $620,279 | 63.6% | $354,447 | 36.4% | 236 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Best Defense | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Joy of Sex | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Meatballs Part II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Conan the Destroyer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
