| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare | $7,936,149 | $6,626,378 | 83.5% | $1,309,771 | 16.5% | 1,860 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Late for Dinner | $4,538,839 | $3,607,545 | 79.5% | $931,294 | 20.5% | 1,013 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Dead Again | $4,203,672 | $3,202,210 | 76.2% | $1,001,462 | 23.8% | 940 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $2,757,344 | $2,063,232 | 74.8% | $694,112 | 25.2% | 1,592 | 13 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Livin' Large! | $2,620,387 | $2,129,257 | 81.3% | $491,130 | 18.7% | 825 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 6 | The Commitments | $2,347,897 | $1,752,234 | 74.6% | $595,663 | 25.4% | 560 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Doc Hollywood | $2,260,814 | $1,783,274 | 78.9% | $477,540 | 21.1% | 1,617 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Hot Shots! | $2,082,833 | $1,651,556 | 79.3% | $431,277 | 20.7% | 1,536 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | $2,056,722 | $1,583,494 | 77% | $473,228 | 23% | 1,431 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Doctor | $1,894,416 | $1,432,355 | 75.6% | $462,061 | 24.4% | 958 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | City Slickers | $1,530,932 | $1,178,111 | 77% | $352,821 | 23% | 1,180 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Boyz n the Hood | $1,147,733 | $841,312 | 73.3% | $306,421 | 26.7% | 877 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Barton Fink | $850,693 | $630,794 | 74.2% | $219,899 | 25.8% | 88 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | The Fisher King | $502,452 | $311,662 | 62% | $190,790 | 38% | 10 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | McBain | $456,127 | $320,000 | 70.2% | $136,127 | 29.8% | 166 | 1 | Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment | - | false |
| 16 | Rambling Rose | $445,505 | $314,631 | 70.6% | $130,874 | 29.4% | 26 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 17 | Paradise | $72,821 | $38,778 | 53.2% | $34,043 | 46.8% | 2 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Indian Runner | $55,482 | $34,047 | 61.4% | $21,435 | 38.6% | 4 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Paris Is Burning | - | - | - | - | - | 91 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Slacker | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 12 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Child's Play 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Double Impact | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Crooked Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Queen of Hearts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blood and Concrete | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | IRS Media | - | false |
