| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Basic Instinct | $5,573,074 | $4,042,740 | 72.5% | $1,530,334 | 27.5% | 1,846 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | White Men Can't Jump | $3,646,727 | $2,794,422 | 76.6% | $852,305 | 23.4% | 1,679 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Beethoven | $3,104,385 | $2,582,400 | 83.2% | $521,985 | 16.8% | 1,920 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Folks! | $2,827,605 | $2,177,518 | 77% | $650,087 | 23% | 1,402 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Split Second | $2,727,117 | $2,250,000 | 82.5% | $477,117 | 17.5% | 1,085 | 1 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| 6 | The Player | $2,352,214 | $1,716,586 | 73% | $635,628 | 27% | 298 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | White Sands | $2,208,491 | $1,486,262 | 67.3% | $722,229 | 32.7% | 1,276 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Wayne's World | $2,097,296 | $1,612,350 | 76.9% | $484,946 | 23.1% | 1,257 | 12 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Sleepwalkers | $1,931,445 | $1,578,691 | 81.7% | $352,754 | 18.3% | 1,513 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Babe | $1,797,330 | $1,352,860 | 75.3% | $444,470 | 24.7% | 1,564 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Deep Cover | $1,785,763 | $1,298,987 | 72.7% | $486,776 | 27.3% | 816 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 12 | City of Joy | $1,747,305 | $1,264,200 | 72.4% | $483,105 | 27.6% | 903 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest | $1,683,699 | $1,321,673 | 78.5% | $362,026 | 21.5% | 1,519 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | My Cousin Vinny | $1,556,381 | $1,156,248 | 74.3% | $400,133 | 25.7% | 855 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Thunderheart | $1,371,080 | $962,480 | 70.2% | $408,600 | 29.8% | 908 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | K2 | $1,301,292 | $930,655 | 71.5% | $370,637 | 28.5% | 350 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Leaving Normal | $698,982 | $474,220 | 67.8% | $224,762 | 32.2% | 362 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Turtle Beach | $516,787 | $350,951 | 67.9% | $165,836 | 32.1% | 727 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Howards End | $424,090 | $291,530 | 68.7% | $132,560 | 31.3% | 22 | 8 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 20 | Hook | $230,427 | $183,093 | 79.5% | $47,334 | 20.5% | 322 | 22 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | The Playboys | $226,968 | $147,093 | 64.8% | $79,875 | 35.2% | 31 | 2 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 22 | Night on Earth | $61,098 | $34,039 | 55.7% | $27,059 | 44.3% | 2 | 1 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 23 | Diary of a Hitman | $31,815 | $17,388 | 54.6% | $14,427 | 45.4% | 18 | 1 | Vision International | - | false |
| 24 | Who Shot Pat? | $2,343 | $2,343 | 100% | $0 | - | 1 | 1 | Castle Hill Productions | - | false |
| - | Year of the Comet | - | $451,968 | - | - | - | 1,006 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | American Dream | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Edward II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Passed Away | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
