The Top Movies, Weekend of August 31, 1984

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	Tightrope	Warner Bros.	Thriller/Suspense	$7,130,891	-0.94%	1,535	$4,646	$30,778,273	17
2	(2)	Ghost Busters	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$6,824,562	+39.99%	1,368	$4,989	$188,550,041	87
3	(new)	Bolero	Cannon	Drama	$4,579,240		1,015	$4,512	$4,579,240	3
4	(7)	The Karate Kid	Sony Pictures	Action	$4,155,645	+44.77%	1,040	$3,996	$69,959,648	73
5	(4)	Purple Rain	Warner Bros.	Drama	$4,068,212	+25.51%	949	$4,287	$45,660,272	38
6	(5)	Revenge of the Nerds	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$3,684,329	+22.89%	974	$3,783	$28,764,667	45
7	(6)	The Woman in Red	Orion Pictures	Comedy	$3,577,643	+21.25%	944	$3,790	$13,683,901	19
8	(3)	Red Dawn	MGM/UA Classics	Action	$3,257,979	-3.00%	1,095	$2,975	$29,673,615	24
9	(9)	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$3,001,224	+62.43%	1,071	$2,802	$136,678,227	87
10	(12)	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	Adventure	$2,175,460	+52.45%	737	$2,952	$167,334,648	103
11	(8)	Oxford Blues	MGM/UA Classics	Comedy	$2,087,808	-16.03%	856	$2,439	$5,845,675	10
12	(new)	Flashpoint	Sony/TriStar	Action	$1,916,222		1,022	$1,875	$1,916,222	3
13	(new)	C.H.U.D.	New World	Horror	$1,762,922		310	$5,687	$1,762,922	3
14	(10)	Dreamscape	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$1,360,881	-26.17%	623	$2,184	$8,887,086	17
15	(13)	The Philadelphia Experiment	New World	Adventure	$1,049,716	-5.17%	432	$2,430	$8,103,330	31
16	(14)	The Jungle Book	Buena Vista	Musical	$845,717	-0.88%	637	$1,328	$23,001,559	6,165
17	(16)	Bachelor Party	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$657,149	+4.86%	419	$1,568	$36,558,262	66
18	(17)	The Neverending Story	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$655,427	+16.50%	385	$1,702	$20,158,808	45
19	(18)	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Sony/TriStar	Comedy	$514,129	-6.20%	423	$1,215	$24,842,103	52
20	(15)	Cloak & Dagger	Universal	Action	$489,520	-24.22%	232	$2,110	$8,071,189	24
21	(20)	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$194,999	-3.54%	53	$3,679	$2,140,397	24
22	(22)	Under the Volcano	Universal	Drama	$189,269	+35.19%	31	$6,105	$1,756,265	82
23	(19)	The Natural	Sony/TriStar	Drama	$184,496	-11.20%	114	$1,618	$47,398,521	115
24	(new)	Choose Me	Island/Alive	Comedy	$56,231		2	$28,116	$107,279	5