| Rank | Release
| Genre
| Budget
| Running Time
| Gross | Theaters | Total Gross | Release Date | Distributor
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Deadpool | - | - | - | $1,410,855 | 108 | $2,091,880 | Feb 12 | Times Media Films | false |
| 2 | How to Be Single | - | - | - | $362,261 | 73 | $574,215 | Feb 12 | Times Media Films | false |
| 3 | Ride Along 2 | - | - | - | $296,121 | 91 | $1,040,371 | Jan 15 | United International Pictures | false |
| 4 | Dirty Grandpa | - | - | - | $236,273 | 65 | $364,796 | Jan 29 | - | false |
| 5 | The Finest Hours | - | - | - | $202,248 | 75 | $202,248 | Feb 5 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 6 | Daddy's Home | - | - | - | $196,208 | 75 | $467,749 | Jan 22 | United International Pictures | false |
| 7 | The Revenant | - | - | - | $189,872 | 57 | $568,303 | Jan 22 | Times Media Films | false |
| 8 | The 5th Wave | - | - | - | $187,258 | 63 | $301,463 | Jan 29 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 9 | Forever | - | - | - | $166,882 | 71 | $1,039,197 | Feb 12 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 10 | Gods of Egypt | - | - | - | $149,993 | 70 | $448,543 | Feb 26 | - | false |
| 11 | Happiness Is a Four-letter Word | - | - | - | $146,931 | 60 | $923,322 | Feb 19 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 12 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | - | - | - | $120,657 | 156 | $3,206,747 | Dec 18 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 13 | The Choice | - | - | - | $118,378 | 61 | $130,388 | Feb 5 | Times Media Films | false |
| 14 | Norm of the North | - | - | - | $109,164 | 73 | $214,187 | Jan 22 | - | false |
| 15 | Fifty Shades of Black | - | - | - | $92,755 | 50 | $142,907 | Feb 19 | Times Media Films | false |
| 16 | The Dressmaker | - | - | - | $91,360 | 16 | $176,117 | Feb 5 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 17 | Spotlight | - | - | - | $75,135 | 16 | $157,777 | Feb 5 | Times Media Films | false |
| 18 | The Hateful Eight | - | - | - | $57,021 | 52 | $95,844 | Jan 29 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 19 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip | - | - | - | $55,375 | 101 | $1,218,784 | Dec 24 | Times Media Films | false |
| 20 | The Good Dinosaur | - | - | - | $45,381 | 113 | $741,867 | Jan 1 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 21 | Hail, Caesar! | - | - | - | $32,527 | 25 | $54,848 | Feb 19 | United International Pictures | false |
| 22 | The Danish Girl | - | - | - | $27,578 | 7 | $49,389 | Jan 29 | United International Pictures | false |
| 23 | The Big Short | - | - | - | $27,295 | 25 | $127,720 | Jan 15 | United International Pictures | false |
| 24 | 13 Hours | - | - | - | $25,247 | 32 | $39,423 | Feb 19 | United International Pictures | false |
| 25 | The Brothers Grimsby | - | - | - | $22,502 | 51 | $45,549 | Feb 26 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 26 | Solace | - | - | - | $19,633 | 41 | $39,986 | Feb 26 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 27 | Room | - | - | - | $17,087 | 19 | $95,892 | Feb 26 | Ster-Kinekor Pictures | false |
| 28 | Secret in Their Eyes | - | - | - | $14,851 | 59 | $265,998 | Jan 8 | - | false |
| 29 | 'n Pawpaw Vir My Darling | - | - | - | $14,206 | 49 | $251,389 | Jan 8 | - | false |
| 30 | The Last Witch Hunter | - | - | - | $13,181 | 42 | $488,981 | Dec 18 | - | false |
| 31 | Trumbo | - | - | - | $12,992 | 7 | $12,992 | Feb 19 | Times Media Films | false |
| 32 | Joy | - | - | - | $10,727 | 40 | $163,253 | Jan 8 | - | false |
| 33 | The Boy | - | - | - | $10,685 | 10 | $27,365 | Feb 26 | Times Media Films | false |
| 34 | Die Ontwaking | - | - | - | $7,380 | 25 | $15,462 | Feb 26 | - | false |
| 35 | Point Break | - | - | - | $7,370 | 93 | $1,075,200 | Dec 24 | M-Net | false |
| 36 | Sisters | - | - | - | $7,347 | 45 | $271,361 | Jan 1 | - | false |
| 37 | Suffragette | - | - | - | $6,779 | 15 | $45,726 | Jan 15 | United International Pictures | false |
| 38 | A Perfect Day | - | - | - | $3,985 | 8 | $3,985 | Feb 12 | - | false |
| 39 | The 33 | - | - | - | $2,594 | 11 | $6,284 | Jan 29 | - | false |
