| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Basic Instinct | $6,941,480 | $5,355,420 | 77.2% | $1,586,060 | 22.8% | 1,866 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Beethoven | $5,736,495 | $5,029,035 | 87.7% | $707,460 | 12.3% | 1,938 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | White Men Can't Jump | $5,511,571 | $4,491,484 | 81.5% | $1,020,087 | 18.5% | 1,835 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | White Sands | $4,130,806 | $3,151,629 | 76.3% | $979,177 | 23.7% | 1,275 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Sleepwalkers | $3,737,140 | $3,150,017 | 84.3% | $587,123 | 15.7% | 1,853 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Babe | $3,543,680 | $3,010,560 | 85% | $533,120 | 15% | 1,568 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | $3,313,208 | $2,812,257 | 84.9% | $500,951 | 15.1% | 1,568 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Deep Cover | $3,060,209 | $2,419,228 | 79% | $640,981 | 21% | 901 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Wayne's World | $2,890,897 | $2,326,653 | 80.5% | $564,244 | 19.5% | 1,402 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | City of Joy | $2,815,540 | $2,205,580 | 78.3% | $609,960 | 21.7% | 884 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | My Cousin Vinny | $2,248,501 | $1,772,511 | 78.8% | $475,990 | 21.2% | 1,021 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Thunderheart | $2,080,890 | $1,568,925 | 75.4% | $511,965 | 24.6% | 1,101 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Player | $2,045,312 | $1,562,650 | 76.4% | $482,662 | 23.6% | 175 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 14 | Passed Away | $1,889,422 | $1,506,887 | 79.8% | $382,535 | 20.2% | 582 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Straight Talk | $1,743,622 | $1,378,016 | 79% | $365,606 | 21% | 1,119 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Year of the Comet | $1,711,511 | $1,350,939 | 78.9% | $360,572 | 21.1% | 1,001 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Cutting Edge | $1,677,420 | $1,359,674 | 81.1% | $317,746 | 18.9% | 1,064 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 18 | Howards End | $497,850 | $357,596 | 71.8% | $140,254 | 28.2% | 20 | 7 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 19 | Hook | $363,252 | $291,870 | 80.4% | $71,382 | 19.6% | 414 | 21 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | The Playboys | $61,001 | $32,525 | 53.3% | $28,476 | 46.7% | 2 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Edward II | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 6 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Rock-A-Doodle | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | A Midnight Clear | - | $46,938 | - | - | - | - | 1 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| - | Where Angels Fear to Tread | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Brain Donors | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Brenda Starr | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
