List_of_1984_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

List of 1984 box office number-one films in the United States

Add article description

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United States during 1984.^[1]

Number-one films

More information #, Weekend end date ...

#	Weekend end date	Film	Gross	Notes	Ref
1	January 8, 1984	Terms of Endearment	$6,234,421		^[2]
2	January 15, 1984		$5,211,394		^[3]
3	January 22, 1984		$3,466,172		^[4]
4	January 29, 1984	Silkwood	$3,547,122	Silkwood reached #1 in its seventh weekend of release.	^[5]
5	February 5, 1984	Terms of Endearment	$3,045,877	Terms of Endearment reclaimed #1 in its eleventh weekend of release.	^[6]
6	February 12, 1984	Unfaithfully Yours	$3,774,126		^[7]
7	February 20, 1984^{4-day weekend}	Footloose	$8,556,935		^[8]
8	February 26, 1984		$6,617,737		^[9]
9	March 4, 1984		$6,300,641		^[10]
10	March 11, 1984	Splash	$6,174,059		^[11]
11	March 18, 1984	Splash	$6,452,183		^[12]
12	March 25, 1984	Police Academy	$8,570,007		^[13]
13	April 1, 1984		$8,061,398		^[14]
14	April 8, 1984		$7,403,955		^[15]
15	April 15, 1984	Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter	$11,183,148	Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter broke Friday the 13th Part III's record ($9,40 million) for highest weekend debut for a slasher film & its record for highest weekend debut for a film released during the Friday the 13th weekend.	^[16]
16	April 22, 1984	Police Academy	$6,101,974	Police Academy reclaimed #1 in its fifth weekend of release.	^[17]
17	April 29, 1984	Police Academy	$4,733,389		^[18]
18	May 6, 1984	Breakin'	$6,047,686		^[19]
19	May 13, 1984	The Natural	$5,088,381		^[20]
20	May 20, 1984	The Natural	$5,423,233		^[21]
21	May 28, 1984^{4-day weekend}	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	$33,936,113	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom's Memorial Day weekend was the biggest weekend of all-time surpassing Return of the Jedi.	^[22]
22	June 3, 1984	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	$16,673,295	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock had the highest non-holiday opening of all-time surpassing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan's $14.3 million.	^[23]^[24]
23	June 10, 1984	Ghostbusters	$13,578,151	Ghostbusters had Columbia Pictures' biggest weekend of all-time, surpassing Tootsie's $11.2 million.	^[25]^[26]
24	June 17, 1984		$15,093,905	Ghostbusters set another record for Columbia Pictures' biggest weekend of all-time.	^[27]
25	June 24, 1984		$13,059,428		^[28]
26	July 1, 1984		$11,148,617		^[29]
27	July 8, 1984		$11,136,134		^[30]
28	July 15, 1984		$9,761,392		^[31]
29	July 22, 1984		$8,493,861		^[32]
30	July 29, 1984	Purple Rain	$7,766,201		^[33]
31	August 5, 1984	Ghostbusters	$6,443,646	Ghostbusters reclaimed #1 in ninth weekend of release.	^[34]
32	August 12, 1984	Red Dawn	$8,230,381		^[35]
33	August 19, 1984	Tightrope	$9,156,545		^[36]
34	August 26, 1984		$7,198,635		^[37]
35	September 3, 1984^{4-day weekend}		$7,130,891		^[38]
36	September 9, 1984		$4,018,355		^[39]
37	September 16, 1984	Ghostbusters	$3,457,626	Ghostbusters reclaimed #1 in its fifteenth weekend of release.	^[40]
38	September 23, 1984	All of Me	$5,803,848		^[41]
39	September 30, 1984	All of Me	$5,258,421		^[42]
40	October 8, 1984^{4-day weekend}	Teachers	$7,013,366		^[43]
41	October 14, 1984		$4,579,286		^[44]
42	October 21, 1984		$3,448,610		^[45]
43	October 28, 1984	The Terminator	$4,020,663		^[46]
44	November 4, 1984	The Terminator	$4,219,463		^[47]
45	November 11, 1984	Oh, God! You Devil	$5,560,001		^[48]
46	November 18, 1984	Missing in Action	$6,101,460		^[49]
47	November 25, 1984	Supergirl	$5,738,249		^[50]
48	December 2, 1984	Missing in Action	$3,021,220	Missing in Action reclaimed #1 in its third weekend of release.	^[51]
49	December 9, 1984	Beverly Hills Cop	$15,214,805	Beverly Hills Cop broke The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas's record ($11.8 million) for highest weekend debut for an R-rated film and Star Trek: The Motion Picture's record ($11.9 million) for the highest weekend debut in December.	^[52]
50	December 16, 1984		$11,514,444		^[53]
51	December 25, 1984^{5-day weekend}		$15,697,159		^[54]
52	January 1, 1985^{5-day weekend}		$20,064,790		^[55]

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article List_of_1984_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] [1]
"Domestic Box Office Weekends For 1984". Box Office Mojo.

[2] [2]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 1". Box Office Mojo.

[3] [3]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 2". Box Office Mojo.

[4] [4]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 3". Box Office Mojo.

[5] [5]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 4". Box Office Mojo.

[6] [6]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 5". Box Office Mojo.

[7] [7]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 6". Box Office Mojo.

[8] [8]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 7 (Presidents' Day weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[9] [9]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 8". Box Office Mojo.

[10] [10]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 9". Box Office Mojo.

[11] [11]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 10". Box Office Mojo.

[12] [12]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 11". Box Office Mojo.

[13] [13]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 12". Box Office Mojo.

[14] [14]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 13". Box Office Mojo.

[15] [15]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 14". Box Office Mojo.

[16] [16]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 15". Box Office Mojo.

[17] [17]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 16". Box Office Mojo.

[18] [18]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 17". Box Office Mojo.

[19] [19]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 18". Box Office Mojo.

[20] [20]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 19". Box Office Mojo.

[21] [21]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 20". Box Office Mojo.

[22] [22]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 21 (Memorial Day weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[23] [23]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 22". Box Office Mojo.

[24] [24]
Greenberg, James (June 6, 1984). "'Star Trek' Sets New 3-Day Weekend High". Variety. p. 3.

[25] [25]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 23". Box Office Mojo.

[26] [26]
Greenberg, James (June 13, 1984). "Boffo Weekend At National B.O.: 'Ghostbusters,' 'Gremlins,' 'Jones' And 'Trek' Grab $47.7-Mil Total". Variety. p. 3.

[27] [27]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 24". Box Office Mojo.

[28] [28]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 25". Box Office Mojo.

[29] [29]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 26". Box Office Mojo.

[30] [30]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 27". Box Office Mojo.

[31] [31]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 28". Box Office Mojo.

[32] [32]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 29". Box Office Mojo.

[33] [33]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 30". Box Office Mojo.

[34] [34]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 31". Box Office Mojo.

[35] [35]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 32". Box Office Mojo.

[36] [36]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 33". Box Office Mojo.

[37] [37]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 34". Box Office Mojo.

[38] [38]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 35". Box Office Mojo.

[39] [39]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 36". Box Office Mojo.

[40] [40]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 37". Box Office Mojo.

[41] [41]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 38". Box Office Mojo.

[42] [42]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 39". Box Office Mojo.

[43] [43]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 40 (Indigenous Peoples' Day Weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[44] [44]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 41". Box Office Mojo.

[45] [45]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 42". Box Office Mojo.

[46] [46]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 43". Box Office Mojo.

[47] [47]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 44". Box Office Mojo.

[48] [48]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 45". Box Office Mojo.

[49] [49]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 46". Box Office Mojo.

[50] [50]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 47 (Thanksgiving 3-Day weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[51] [51]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 48 (Post-Thanksgiving)". Box Office Mojo.

[52] [52]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 49". Box Office Mojo.

[53] [53]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 50". Box Office Mojo.

[54] [54]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 51 (Christmas long weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[55] [55]
"Domestic 1984 Weekend 52 (New Year's long weekend)". Box Office Mojo.

[56] [56]
"Domestic Box Office For 1984". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved January 19, 2020.

[57] [57]
"Domestic Box Office For 1984 (In-year release)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 14, 2020.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[31]

[32]

[33]

[34]

[35]

[36]

[37]

[38]

[39]

[40]

[41]

[42]

[43]

[44]

[45]

[46]

[47]

[48]

[49]

[50]

[51]

[52]

[53]

[54]

[55]

[56]

[57]

Rank	Title	Studio(s)	Actor(s)	Director(s)	Gross
1.	Ghostbusters	Columbia Pictures	Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton and Annie Potts	Ivan Reitman	$220,919,997
2.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount Pictures	Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone and Ke Huy Quan	Steven Spielberg	$179,870,271
3.	Gremlins	Warner Bros. Pictures	Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday and Frances Lee McCain	Joe Dante	$148,168,459
4.	The Karate Kid	Columbia Pictures	Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeth Shue, William Zabka, Martin Kove and Randee Heller	John G. Avildsen	$90,815,558
5.	Police Academy	Warner Bros. Pictures	Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith and George Gaynes	Hugh Wilson	$81,198,894
6.	Footloose	Paramount Pictures	Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow	Herbert Ross	$80,035,402
7.	Beverly Hills Cop		Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Ronny Cox, Paul Reiser and Jonathan Banks	Martin Brest	$77,455,497
8.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock		William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Merritt Butrick and Christopher Lloyd	Leonard Nimoy	$76,471,046
9.	Terms of Endearment		Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow	James L. Brooks	$74,420,269
10.	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Alfonso Arau and Manuel Ojeda	Robert Zemeckis	$74,348,839

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1.	Beverly Hills Cop	Paramount	$234,760,478
2.	Ghostbusters	Columbia	$229,242,989
3.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Paramount	$179,870,271
4.	Gremlins	Warner Bros.	$148,168,459
5.	The Karate Kid	Columbia	$90,815,558
6.	Police Academy	Warner Bros.	$81,198,894
7.	Footloose	Paramount	$80,035,402
8.	Romancing the Stone	20th Century Fox	$76,572,238
9.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	Paramount	$76,471,046
10.	Splash	Disney	$69,821,334

List_of_1984_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

List of 1984 box office number-one films in the United States

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

See also

References

Chronology

Share this article:

G	Pinocchio (1984 Re-issue)
PG	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
PG-13	Red Dawn
R	Beverly Hills Cop