| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Bird on a Wire | $20,606,400 | $15,338,160 | 74.4% | $5,268,240 | 25.6% | 1,944 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Cadillac Man | $9,114,406 | $6,712,079 | 73.6% | $2,402,327 | 26.4% | 1,826 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Pretty Woman | $8,669,682 | $6,253,391 | 72.1% | $2,416,291 | 27.9% | 1,811 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $4,316,414 | $3,284,334 | 76.1% | $1,032,080 | 23.9% | 2,026 | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 5 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | $2,594,499 | $1,928,810 | 74.3% | $665,689 | 25.7% | 1,535 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Hunt for Red October | $2,398,483 | $1,754,000 | 73.1% | $644,483 | 26.9% | 1,241 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Spaced Invaders | $1,574,061 | $1,331,884 | 84.6% | $242,177 | 15.4% | 1,426 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Wild Orchid | $1,186,457 | $740,720 | 62.4% | $445,737 | 37.6% | 757 | 4 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | The Guardian | $1,137,890 | $857,460 | 75.4% | $280,430 | 24.6% | 922 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Q&A | $1,041,255 | $732,735 | 70.4% | $308,520 | 29.6% | 857 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Driving Miss Daisy | $714,202 | $515,297 | 72.2% | $198,905 | 27.8% | 803 | 23 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | $100,328 | $67,243 | 67% | $33,085 | 33% | 4 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | - | $553,572 | - | - | - | 239 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Last Exit to Brooklyn | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Miami Blues | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ernest Goes to Jail | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Pathfinder | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | International Film Exchange (IFEX) | - | false |
| - | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | Greycat Films | - | false |
| - | Short Time | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Call Me | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
