The Top Movies, Weekend of August 24, 1984

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Tightrope	Warner Bros.	Thriller/Suspense	$7,198,635	-21.38%	1,535	$4,690	$20,909,060	10
2	(3)	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$4,875,044	-12.66%	1,391	$3,505	$179,403,683	80
3	(2)	Red Dawn	MGM/UA Classics	Action	$3,358,658	-39.86%	1,369	$2,453	$24,882,879	17
4	(4)	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	Drama	$3,241,452	-19.01%	915	$3,543	$39,906,368	31
5	(5)	Revenge of the Nerds	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$2,998,153	-18.24%	989	$3,031	$23,604,096	38
6	(7)	The Woman in Red	Orion Pictures	Comedy	$2,950,515	-6.80%	1,069	$2,760	$8,739,177	12
7	(6)	The Karate Kid	Sony Pictures	Action	$2,870,497	-16.08%	1,090	$2,633	$64,356,939	66
8	(new)	Oxford Blues	MGM/UA Classics	Comedy	$2,486,418		1,075	$2,313	$2,486,418	3
9	(10)	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$1,847,756	-14.88%	982	$1,882	$132,624,650	80
10	(9)	Dreamscape	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$1,843,322	-18.35%	814	$2,265	$6,234,577	10
11	(8)	Sheena	Columbia	Adventure	$1,618,493	-45.14%	1,388	$1,166	$5,778,353	10
12	(11)	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$1,426,994	-11.88%	785	$1,818	$164,297,966	96
13	(17)	The Philadelphia Experiment	New World	Adventure	$1,106,986	+77.03%	479	$2,311	$6,108,435	24
14	(13)	The Jungle Book	Buena Vista	Musical	$853,188	-29.84%	778	$1,097	$21,496,580	6,158
15	(12)	Cloak & Dagger	Universal	Action	$646,016	-59.35%	392	$1,648	$7,302,380	17
16	(14)	Bachelor Party	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$626,662	-5.26%	502	$1,248	$35,568,529	59
17	(16)	The Neverending Story	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$562,581	-10.29%	449	$1,253	$19,168,110	38
18	(18)	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Sony/TriStar	Comedy	$548,122	-10.06%	548	$1,000	$24,092,964	45
19	(21)	The Natural	Sony/TriStar	Drama	$207,760	-15.95%	196	$1,060	$47,152,085	108
20	(19)	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$202,149	-51.28%	80	$2,527	$1,833,714	17
21	(20)	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$140,250	-57.19%	111	$1,264	$75,078,260	150
22	(23)	Under the Volcano	Universal	Drama	$140,000	+40.44%	30	$4,667	$1,501,725	75