| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Ghost | $8,643,231 | $6,510,023 | 75.3% | $2,133,208 | 24.7% | 1,766 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Darkman | $5,228,845 | $4,027,320 | 77% | $1,201,525 | 23% | 1,782 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Presumed Innocent | $4,580,888 | $3,464,921 | 75.6% | $1,115,967 | 24.4% | 1,410 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Flatliners | $4,350,132 | $3,201,954 | 73.6% | $1,148,178 | 26.4% | 1,483 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Men at Work | $2,329,317 | $1,832,599 | 78.7% | $496,718 | 21.3% | 1,034 | 3 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 6 | Taking Care of Business | $2,163,905 | $1,646,095 | 76.1% | $517,810 | 23.9% | 1,101 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | My Blue Heaven | $2,082,606 | $1,597,075 | 76.7% | $485,531 | 23.3% | 1,190 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Young Guns II | $1,988,776 | $1,510,829 | 76% | $477,947 | 24% | 1,349 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Air America | $1,850,214 | $1,419,540 | 76.7% | $430,674 | 23.3% | 1,203 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Exorcist III | $1,840,725 | $1,400,513 | 76.1% | $440,212 | 23.9% | 1,106 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Wild at Heart | $1,629,221 | $1,243,699 | 76.3% | $385,522 | 23.7% | 625 | 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 12 | Pump Up the Volume | $1,555,006 | $1,210,322 | 77.8% | $344,684 | 22.2% | 812 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | Problem Child | $1,347,775 | $1,101,360 | 81.7% | $246,415 | 18.3% | 1,059 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Witches | $1,341,380 | $1,118,559 | 83.4% | $222,821 | 16.6% | 827 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Die Hard 2 | $1,337,612 | $996,951 | 74.5% | $340,661 | 25.5% | 870 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | After Dark, My Sweet | $805,112 | $629,895 | 78.2% | $175,217 | 21.8% | 153 | 3 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| 17 | Total Recall | $495,504 | $378,000 | 76.3% | $117,504 | 23.7% | 432 | 15 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Slumber Party Massacre III | - | $270,135 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Lemon Sisters | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | May Fools | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
