| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The People Under the Stairs | $6,965,250 | $5,522,250 | 79.3% | $1,443,000 | 20.7% | 1,850 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Curly Sue | $6,291,712 | $5,321,727 | 84.6% | $969,985 | 15.4% | 1,634 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Highlander II: The Quickening | $6,208,080 | $5,280,490 | 85.1% | $927,590 | 14.9% | 960 | 1 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| 4 | Billy Bathgate | $5,418,415 | $4,051,590 | 74.8% | $1,366,825 | 25.2% | 912 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Little Man Tate | $4,503,318 | $3,551,331 | 78.9% | $951,987 | 21.1% | 987 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | House Party 2 | $4,366,259 | $3,666,714 | 84% | $699,545 | 16% | 1,185 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Other People's Money | $3,958,458 | $3,099,225 | 78.3% | $859,233 | 21.7% | 1,246 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Frankie and Johnny | $2,570,035 | $1,953,343 | 76% | $616,692 | 24% | 1,150 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Fisher King | $2,339,376 | $1,786,480 | 76.4% | $552,896 | 23.6% | 1,304 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Butcher's Wife | $2,030,873 | $1,562,844 | 77% | $468,029 | 23% | 800 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Deceived | $1,466,491 | $1,127,053 | 76.8% | $339,438 | 23.2% | 1,013 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ernest Scared Stupid | $1,129,718 | $955,316 | 84.6% | $174,402 | 15.4% | 1,476 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Year of the Gun | $799,125 | $606,046 | 75.8% | $193,079 | 24.2% | 739 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 14 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $615,464 | $463,755 | 75.4% | $151,709 | 24.6% | 719 | 19 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | 29th Street | $584,797 | $431,660 | 73.8% | $153,137 | 26.2% | 131 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Hitman | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Paradise | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Homicide | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Shattered | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Stepfather II: Make Room for Daddy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Necessary Roughness | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ricochet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Cool as Ice | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
