| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tightrope | $8,372,213 | -15.7% | 1,535 | - | $5,454 | $32,019,595 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 2 | Ghostbusters | $7,416,330 | +5.9% | 1,368 | -23 | $5,421 | $189,115,606 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | - | Bolero | $5,211,735 | - | 1,015 | - | $5,134 | $5,211,735 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | true | false |
| 4 | 3 | Purple Rain | $4,957,900 | +0.6% | 949 | +34 | $5,224 | $46,549,960 | 6 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 6 | The Karate Kid | $4,622,513 | +7.1% | 1,040 | -50 | $4,444 | $70,426,516 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 5 | Revenge of the Nerds | $4,359,296 | -2.6% | 974 | -15 | $4,475 | $29,439,634 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 7 | 7 | The Woman in Red | $4,195,581 | -2.8% | 944 | -125 | $4,444 | $14,301,838 | 3 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 4 | Red Dawn | $3,879,506 | -20.7% | 1,095 | -301 | $3,542 | $30,295,142 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 9 | 10 | Gremlins | $3,509,482 | +21% | 1,071 | +89 | $3,276 | $137,186,485 | 13 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 10 | 11 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $2,572,867 | +12.4% | 737 | -48 | $3,491 | $167,732,055 | 16 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 8 | Oxford Blues | $2,445,230 | -34.9% | 856 | -219 | $2,856 | $6,203,097 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 12 | - | Flashpoint | $2,310,514 | - | 1,022 | - | $2,260 | $2,310,514 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | true | false |
| 13 | - | C.H.U.D. | $2,012,291 | - | 310 | - | $6,491 | $2,012,291 | 1 | New World Pictures | true | false |
| 14 | 9 | Dreamscape | $1,696,879 | -45.9% | 623 | -191 | $2,723 | $9,223,084 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 15 | - | The Philadelphia Experiment | $1,049,716 | - | 432 | -47 | $2,429 | $8,103,330 | 5 | New World Pictures | false | false |
| 16 | 13 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $250,552 | -20.2% | 53 | -27 | $4,727 | $2,195,950 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
