| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tightrope | $5,260,365 | -37.2% | 1,474 | -61 | $3,568 | $37,279,960 | 4 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 2 | 2 | Ghostbusters | $4,705,905 | -36.5% | 1,435 | +67 | $3,279 | $193,821,511 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 4 | Purple Rain | $3,486,473 | -29.7% | 1,022 | +73 | $3,411 | $50,036,433 | 7 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 4 | 7 | The Woman in Red | $3,162,897 | -24.6% | 1,032 | +88 | $3,064 | $17,464,735 | 4 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | The Karate Kid | $2,875,481 | -37.8% | 1,070 | +30 | $2,687 | $73,301,997 | 12 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Revenge of the Nerds | $2,833,444 | -35% | 945 | -29 | $2,998 | $32,273,078 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 7 | 8 | Red Dawn | $2,487,857 | -35.9% | 1,066 | -29 | $2,333 | $32,782,999 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 8 | 3 | Bolero | $2,249,108 | -56.8% | 915 | -100 | $2,458 | $7,460,843 | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | false | false |
| 9 | 9 | Gremlins | $2,062,434 | -41.2% | 1,050 | -21 | $1,964 | $139,248,919 | 14 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | $1,509,458 | -41.3% | 686 | -51 | $2,200 | $169,241,513 | 17 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 14 | Dreamscape | $1,274,868 | -24.9% | 567 | -56 | $2,248 | $10,497,952 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 12 | 11 | Oxford Blues | $1,247,883 | -49% | 632 | -224 | $1,974 | $7,450,980 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 13 | 12 | Flashpoint | $1,147,319 | -50.3% | 938 | -84 | $1,223 | $3,457,833 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 13 | C.H.U.D. | $981,560 | -51.2% | 297 | -13 | $3,304 | $2,993,851 | 2 | New World Pictures | false | false |
| 15 | - | The Warrior and the Sorceress | $958,425 | - | 238 | - | $4,026 | $958,425 | 1 | New World Pictures | true | false |
| 16 | 16 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension | $156,454 | -37.6% | 50 | -3 | $3,129 | $2,352,404 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
