| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Tightrope | $8,372,213 | - | - | - | - | 1,535 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Ghostbusters | $7,416,330 | $5,004,808 | 67.5% | $2,411,522 | 32.5% | 1,368 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Bolero | $5,211,735 | - | - | - | - | 1,015 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 4 | Purple Rain | $4,957,900 | - | - | - | - | 949 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | The Karate Kid | $4,622,513 | - | - | - | - | 1,040 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Revenge of the Nerds | $4,359,296 | - | - | - | - | 974 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | The Woman in Red | $4,195,581 | - | - | - | - | 944 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Red Dawn | $3,879,506 | - | - | - | - | 1,095 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Gremlins | $3,509,482 | - | - | - | - | 1,071 | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $2,572,867 | - | - | - | - | 737 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Oxford Blues | $2,445,230 | - | - | - | - | 856 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Flashpoint | $2,310,514 | - | - | - | - | 1,022 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | C.H.U.D. | $2,012,291 | - | - | - | - | 310 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Dreamscape | $1,696,879 | - | - | - | - | 623 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Philadelphia Experiment | $1,049,716 | - | - | - | - | 432 | 5 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $250,552 | - | - | - | - | 53 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
