| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | $31,543,621 | $20,817,139 | 66% | $10,726,482 | 34% | 2,378 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | $21,101,241 | $13,054,762 | 61.9% | $8,046,479 | 38.1% | 2,369 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $20,541,042 | - | - | - | - | 2,274 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | City Slickers | $14,189,324 | $8,937,449 | 63% | $5,251,875 | 37% | 2,108 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Rocketeer | $11,510,525 | $7,209,752 | 62.6% | $4,300,773 | 37.4% | 1,903 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dying Young | $7,422,494 | $4,685,751 | 63.1% | $2,736,743 | 36.9% | 1,552 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Backdraft | $5,621,340 | $3,630,565 | 64.6% | $1,990,775 | 35.4% | 1,829 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Jungle Fever | $3,990,335 | $2,569,880 | 64.4% | $1,420,455 | 35.6% | 825 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Thelma & Louise | $3,557,014 | $2,220,944 | 62.4% | $1,336,070 | 37.6% | 1,081 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 10 | Soapdish | $3,041,981 | $2,022,494 | 66.5% | $1,019,487 | 33.5% | 1,229 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | What About Bob? | $2,943,201 | $1,895,621 | 64.4% | $1,047,580 | 35.6% | 1,471 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | $2,678,967 | $1,713,381 | 64% | $965,586 | 36% | 1,442 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Kindergarten Cop | $87,400 | $72,200 | 82.6% | $15,200 | 17.4% | 190 | 28 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Europa Europa | $66,242 | $31,433 | 47.4% | $34,809 | 52.6% | 2 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| 15 | The Reflecting Skin | $8,678 | $5,958 | 68.7% | $2,720 | 31.3% | 2 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | The Miracle | $8,160 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Dances with Wolves | - | $638,104 | - | - | - | 569 | 34 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Everybody's Fine | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | 5 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Bright Angel | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Only the Lonely | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Auntie Danielle | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Truly Madly Deeply | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Home Alone | - | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
