| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Pacific Heights | $8,966,584 | $6,912,637 | 77.1% | $2,053,947 | 22.9% | 1,278 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Goodfellas | $8,043,235 | $5,881,427 | 73.1% | $2,161,808 | 26.9% | 1,291 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Ghost | $6,995,680 | $5,435,657 | 77.7% | $1,560,023 | 22.3% | 1,766 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Postcards from the Edge | $5,434,922 | $4,101,237 | 75.5% | $1,333,685 | 24.5% | 1,323 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Narrow Margin | $2,623,755 | $1,958,439 | 74.6% | $665,316 | 25.4% | 1,253 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dark Angel | $2,588,241 | $1,912,421 | 73.9% | $675,820 | 26.1% | 1,041 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 7 | Death Warrant | $2,478,064 | $1,882,769 | 76% | $595,295 | 24% | 1,077 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Flatliners | $2,236,425 | $1,674,686 | 74.9% | $561,739 | 25.1% | 1,435 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Funny About Love | $2,053,708 | $1,647,172 | 80.2% | $406,536 | 19.8% | 1,213 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Presumed Innocent | $1,812,622 | $1,364,042 | 75.2% | $448,580 | 24.8% | 1,097 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Texasville | $1,102,176 | $823,534 | 74.7% | $278,642 | 25.3% | 354 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | King of New York | $575,742 | $411,597 | 71.5% | $164,145 | 28.5% | 115 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | Miller's Crossing | $57,877 | $32,732 | 56.6% | $25,145 | 43.4% | 1 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Pretty Woman | - | $883,765 | - | - | - | 851 | 28 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Def by Temptation | - | - | - | - | - | 57 | 21 | Troma | - | false |
| - | Hardware | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Young Guns II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Darkman | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Men at Work | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | White Hunter Black Heart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Jesus of Montreal | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | The Boyfriend School | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Hemdale | - | false |
