| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tightrope | $7,198,635 | -21.4% | 1,535 | - | $4,689 | $20,909,060 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 3 | Ghostbusters | $4,682,210 | -13.4% | 1,391 | -9 | $3,366 | $179,381,173 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 2 | Red Dawn | $3,358,658 | -39.9% | 1,396 | -396 | $2,405 | $24,882,879 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 4 | 4 | Purple Rain | $3,241,452 | -19% | 915 | +62 | $3,542 | $39,906,368 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Revenge of the Nerds | $2,998,153 | -18.2% | 989 | +18 | $3,031 | $23,604,096 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 6 | 7 | The Woman in Red | $2,941,215 | -6.9% | 1,069 | +4 | $2,751 | $8,731,371 | 2 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 6 | The Karate Kid | $2,870,497 | -16.1% | 1,090 | +60 | $2,633 | $64,356,939 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | - | Oxford Blues | $2,486,418 | - | 1,075 | - | $2,312 | $2,486,418 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | true | false |
| 9 | 10 | Gremlins | $1,847,756 | -14.9% | 982 | -31 | $1,881 | $132,624,650 | 12 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 10 | 9 | Dreamscape | $1,843,322 | -18.4% | 814 | -2 | $2,264 | $6,234,577 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 11 | 8 | Sheena | $1,618,493 | -45.1% | 1,388 | -108 | $1,166 | $5,778,353 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 11 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $1,426,994 | -11.9% | 785 | +55 | $1,817 | $164,297,966 | 14 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | - | The Philadelphia Experiment | $1,106,986 | - | 479 | - | $2,311 | - | 4 | New World Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 14 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $202,149 | -51.3% | 80 | -103 | $2,526 | $1,833,714 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
