| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $49,150,236 | $31,765,506 | 64.6% | $17,384,730 | 35.4% | 2,274 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | $17,130,752 | $11,628,880 | 67.9% | $5,501,872 | 32.1% | 2,378 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | $15,292,222 | $10,343,849 | 67.6% | $4,948,373 | 32.4% | 2,369 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | City Slickers | $11,629,559 | $8,200,660 | 70.5% | $3,428,899 | 29.5% | 2,171 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Problem Child 2 | $10,290,560 | $5,372,880 | 52.2% | $4,917,680 | 47.8% | 1,464 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Rocketeer | $7,652,770 | $5,284,370 | 69% | $2,368,400 | 31% | 1,886 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Dying Young | $4,907,150 | $3,177,101 | 64.7% | $1,730,049 | 35.3% | 1,522 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Backdraft | $4,016,400 | $2,810,610 | 70% | $1,205,790 | 30% | 1,503 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Soapdish | $3,420,101 | $2,637,759 | 77.1% | $782,342 | 22.9% | 1,080 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Thelma & Louise | $3,018,783 | $2,045,721 | 67.8% | $973,062 | 32.2% | 907 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | Jungle Fever | $2,797,910 | $2,023,200 | 72.3% | $774,710 | 27.7% | 720 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | What About Bob? | $2,090,119 | $1,427,486 | 68.3% | $662,633 | 31.7% | 1,471 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Slacker | $37,222 | $24,307 | 65.3% | $12,915 | 34.7% | 2 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| 14 | The Miracle | $19,267 | $12,076 | 62.7% | $7,191 | 37.3% | 1 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Straight Out of Brooklyn | - | - | - | - | - | 75 | 8 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Reflecting Skin | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Kindergarten Cop | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Everybody's Fine | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Bright Angel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Dances with Wolves | - | - | - | - | - | - | 35 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
