| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Basic Instinct | $13,245,204 | $10,115,406 | 76.4% | $3,129,798 | 23.6% | 1,806 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | White Men Can't Jump | $12,928,689 | $10,188,583 | 78.8% | $2,740,106 | 21.2% | 1,928 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Beethoven | $9,393,725 | $7,587,565 | 80.8% | $1,806,160 | 19.2% | 1,688 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Straight Talk | $5,929,881 | $4,575,746 | 77.2% | $1,354,135 | 22.8% | 1,477 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Thunderheart | $5,830,155 | $4,507,425 | 77.3% | $1,322,730 | 22.7% | 1,035 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Wayne's World | $5,678,840 | $4,425,600 | 77.9% | $1,253,240 | 22.1% | 1,878 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | My Cousin Vinny | $5,142,786 | $3,940,779 | 76.6% | $1,202,007 | 23.4% | 1,482 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | The Cutting Edge | $4,288,387 | $3,443,941 | 80.3% | $844,446 | 19.7% | 857 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Ladybugs | $3,772,378 | $3,196,531 | 84.7% | $575,847 | 15.3% | 1,528 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Rock-A-Doodle | $3,255,611 | $2,603,286 | 80% | $652,325 | 20% | 1,278 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 11 | Beauty and the Beast | $2,488,668 | $1,965,717 | 79% | $522,951 | 21% | 1,119 | 21 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $2,283,435 | $1,657,810 | 72.6% | $625,625 | 27.4% | 1,228 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Lawnmower Man | $2,018,478 | $1,505,465 | 74.6% | $513,013 | 25.4% | 1,174 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 14 | Bugsy | $400,400 | - | - | - | - | 455 | 17 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Hook | $390,504 | $307,824 | 78.8% | $82,680 | 21.2% | 424 | 18 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Howards End | $76,039 | $46,112 | 60.6% | $29,927 | 39.4% | 1 | 4 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 17 | Roadside Prophets | $57,693 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 2 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 18 | ANIMATION CELEBRATION VOL. 4 | $54,846 | $35,216 | 64.2% | $19,630 | 35.8% | 4 | 2 | Expanded Entertainment | - | false |
| 19 | Delicatessen | $11,765 | $4,733 | 40.2% | $7,032 | 59.8% | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Power of One | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Under Suspicion | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | American Me | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ruby | - | $76,833 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Prince of Tides | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | JFK | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
