The Top Movies, Weekend of August 10, 1984

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(new)	Red Dawn	MGM/UA Classics	Action	$8,239,381		1,822	$4,522	$8,239,381	3
2	(1)	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$5,929,651	-9.18%	1,423	$4,167	$162,725,586	66
3	(2)	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	Drama	$4,802,664	-23.53%	991	$4,846	$27,533,155	17
4	(12)	Revenge of the Nerds	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$4,391,174	+175.70%	958	$4,584	$12,173,794	24
5	(5)	The Karate Kid	Sony Pictures	Action	$3,180,797	-11.88%	1,111	$2,863	$54,037,902	52
6	(3)	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$3,151,397	-24.02%	1,322	$2,384	$125,539,436	66
7	(new)	Cloak & Dagger	Universal	Action	$2,862,025		1,147	$2,495	$2,862,025	3
8	(4)	The Jungle Book	Buena Vista	Musical	$2,141,714	-43.75%	1,463	$1,464	$17,189,138	6,144
9	(6)	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$2,110,782	-10.36%	946	$2,231	$158,988,301	82
10	(7)	The Neverending Story	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$1,330,090	-40.90%	719	$1,850	$16,757,940	24
11	(8)	Grandview, U.S.A.	Warner Bros.	Drama	$1,248,817	-43.09%	914	$1,366	$4,743,119	10
12	(11)	Bachelor Party	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$1,232,231	-26.94%	738	$1,670	$33,228,229	45
13	(14)	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Sony/TriStar	Comedy	$1,228,453	-19.42%	783	$1,569	$21,797,463	31
14	(10)	The Philadelphia Experiment	New World	Adventure	$1,085,367	-42.18%	406	$2,673	$3,780,736	10
15	(13)	The Last Starfighter	Universal	Comedy	$1,074,450	-32.42%	570	$1,885	$21,013,668	31
16	(9)	Joy of Sex	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$867,646	-54.64%	663	$1,309	$3,687,801	10
17	(new)	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$620,279		236	$2,628	$620,279	3
18	(15)	Best Defense	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$575,047	-60.87%	484	$1,188	$18,361,590	24
19	(20)	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$479,665	-12.78%	359	$1,336	$74,111,506	136
20	(16)	Meatballs II	Sony/TriStar	Comedy	$407,478	-63.38%	339	$1,202	$5,410,972	17
21	(19)	The Natural	Sony/TriStar	Drama	$293,700	-55.02%	267	$1,100	$46,309,185	94
22	(22)	Love Letters	New World	Thriller/Suspense	$209,494	-2.36%	83	$2,524	$5,002,230	108
23	(21)	Rhinestone	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$204,705	-16.00%	290	$706	$21,333,906	52
24	(18)	Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers	Orion Pictures	Comedy	$181,370	-75.82%	178	$1,019	$3,772,785	17
25	(23)	Under the Volcano	Universal	Drama	$130,906	-11.55%	24	$5,454	$1,146,631	61