| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Postcards from the Edge | $10,855,698 | $7,871,856 | 72.5% | $2,983,842 | 27.5% | 1,013 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Ghost | $7,676,037 | $5,860,523 | 76.4% | $1,815,514 | 23.6% | 1,766 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Death Warrant | $6,378,351 | $5,019,902 | 78.7% | $1,358,449 | 21.3% | 1,089 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 4 | Flatliners | $3,609,389 | $2,645,085 | 73.3% | $964,304 | 26.7% | 1,483 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Presumed Innocent | $3,608,091 | $2,718,151 | 75.3% | $889,940 | 24.7% | 1,410 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Darkman | $3,182,185 | $2,410,260 | 75.7% | $771,925 | 24.3% | 1,668 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Hardware | $3,026,111 | $2,381,285 | 78.7% | $644,826 | 21.3% | 695 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 8 | Men at Work | $1,717,673 | $1,357,758 | 79% | $359,915 | 21% | 1,035 | 4 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | Young Guns II | $1,493,340 | $1,156,598 | 77.4% | $336,742 | 22.6% | 1,192 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Pump Up the Volume | $1,459,179 | $1,064,657 | 73% | $394,522 | 27% | 821 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | Taking Care of Business | $1,436,879 | $1,091,356 | 76% | $345,523 | 24% | 967 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Problem Child | $1,377,720 | $1,092,285 | 79.3% | $285,435 | 20.7% | 899 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Repossessed | $341,192 | $266,975 | 78.2% | $74,217 | 21.8% | 115 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 14 | Total Recall | $326,772 | $234,900 | 71.9% | $91,872 | 28.1% | 348 | 16 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 15 | State of Grace | $282,814 | $179,927 | 63.6% | $102,887 | 36.4% | 14 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | White Hunter Black Heart | $239,260 | $165,450 | 69.2% | $73,810 | 30.8% | 24 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Fools of Fortune | $17,918 | $11,422 | 63.8% | $6,496 | 36.2% | 3 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | After Dark, My Sweet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Die Hard 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Wild at Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Exorcist III | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Air America | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Witches | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | My Blue Heaven | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Beast of War | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Doin' Time on Planet Earth | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
